The indicators the engine runs on

Why indicators at all

An indicator is not a prediction, it is compression. Hundreds of candles collapse into a single number you can compare against a threshold. No indicator knows the future; it describes what already happened in a convenient form.

Moving averages: EMA 9, 21, 50

An exponential moving average is the price averaged over the last N candles, with recent candles weighted more heavily. EMA(9) reacts to the last few minutes, EMA(50) describes the background.

The meaning is in how they line up. When the fast average sits above the medium one and that above the slow one, the market is rising on every horizon at once. Our engine weights this the most: on one-minute expiries, entering against the EMA direction makes no sense.

RSI: overbought and oversold

RSI compares the strength of gains against losses over 14 candles and returns a number from 0 to 100. Above 70 is commonly called overbought, below 30 oversold.

A common mistake is trading against RSI at every extreme. In a strong trend RSI stays above 70 for weeks, and every entry against it loses. That is why RSI here does not flip the signal — it only dampens confidence: a move that has gone too far is more likely to run out of breath.

MACD: momentum and its decay

MACD is the difference between two moving averages, and the histogram shows whether they are diverging or converging. A positive histogram means upward momentum, a negative one downward.

The slope matters more than the sign. The histogram can stay positive while collapsing — that means momentum is ending. The engine looks at both.

ATR: a measure of volatility

ATR is the average true range of a candle over 14 periods. It says nothing about direction, but it does say whether the market is alive or dead.

This is the key filter. If ATR is too low, price is standing still and no signal will settle: the move simply will not happen. If it is too high, news is out and price jumps unpredictably. The platform issues signals only inside a working corridor and honestly refuses outside it.

Bollinger Bands

The bands are drawn two standard deviations from the average. The %B reading tells you where price sits inside them: 0 at the lower band, 1 at the upper, outside means a breakout.

Like RSI, the bands here reduce confidence rather than reverse the signal.

Together, not separately

Each indicator on its own is wrong constantly. The point is agreement: the engine sums weighted votes, gets a score from −1 to 1, and publishes a signal only when agreement clears the threshold. If the indicators disagree, there is no signal — and that is a normal outcome, not a rare one.