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Cycle Regime (Ehlers Dominant Cycle)
Measures the market's dominant cycle length and flags whether it's compressing or expanding.
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**What it does**
Cycle Regime plots a single, clean estimate of the market's current **dominant cycle period** — how many bars one full up-down rhythm is currently taking — and classifies it against its own recent baseline into three states:
- 🟢 **Compression** — the cycle is shorter than usual; price is coiling / oscillating tightly.
- 🔴 **Expansion** — the cycle is longer than usual; swings are stretching out (often a trend maturing).
- ⚪ **Neutral** — the cycle is near its typical length; no strong reading.
The current state is shown as a colored line, an optional background tint during compression, and a status label reading e.g. `COMPRESSION · 23b (base 49)`.
**The math**
Under the hood this is John Ehlers' **homodyne (in-phase / quadrature) dominant-cycle measurement**. Price is detrended and smoothed, a quadrature (90°-shifted) copy is built via a Hilbert-transform approximation, and the per-bar phase advance between the two is converted into a cycle period ( period = 2π / phase-rate ), then median-filtered and smoothed for stability.
It is a distillation of the open-source **"Tesla Coil"** indicator: I kept only the single robust cycle estimator and replaced the original's fixed reference level with a self-scaling baseline (the rolling median of the period), so the regime adapts to any symbol or timeframe without manual tuning.
**How to read it**
- Watch the **color**, not just the level. A rising line into red = the market is trending/stretching. A falling line into green = it's compressing/coiling.
- The **baseline** (gray line) is the median cycle length over the lookback window — the line's own "normal." Regime is always relative to that, so a "compression" on a fast asset and a slow one mean the same thing structurally.
- It describes **rhythm and volatility state, not direction.** It never tells you up or down — pair it with your own structure, trend, or entry method.
**Settings**
- **Source** — price input (default close).
- **Baseline window** — bars used for the median baseline (default 40).
- **Expansion / Compression thresholds** — how far above/below baseline triggers each state (default 1.10× / 0.90×).
- **Colors, baseline visibility, background highlight** — all optional.
Alerts fire when the cycle enters compression or expansion.
**How I use it**
I treat cycle state as a **context filter**, not a signal. It's most useful applied on your higher timeframe to judge *when* your setups are worth taking versus when the market is in a state you'd rather avoid — a modifier on decisions your own method already made, not a standalone buy/sell.
**Credits**
Built on Ehlers' instantaneous-frequency / homodyne cycle work and distilled from the open-source "Tesla Coil" indicator by **veryfid** (with contributions by DasanC and KryptoBeau). Published open-source under MPL-2.0.
**Disclaimer**
For research and education only. This is not financial advice and makes no claim about future performance. Cycle measurements are inherently lagging and smoothed — always confirm with your own analysis and risk management.
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Cycle Regime (Ehlers Dominant Cycle)
Measures the market's dominant cycle length and flags whether it's compressing or expanding.
---
**What it does**
Cycle Regime plots a single, clean estimate of the market's current **dominant cycle period** — how many bars one full up-down rhythm is currently taking — and classifies it against its own recent baseline into three states:
- 🟢 **Compression** — the cycle is shorter than usual; price is coiling / oscillating tightly.
- 🔴 **Expansion** — the cycle is longer than usual; swings are stretching out (often a trend maturing).
- ⚪ **Neutral** — the cycle is near its typical length; no strong reading.
The current state is shown as a colored line, an optional background tint during compression, and a status label reading e.g. `COMPRESSION · 23b (base 49)`.
**The math**
Under the hood this is John Ehlers' **homodyne (in-phase / quadrature) dominant-cycle measurement**. Price is detrended and smoothed, a quadrature (90°-shifted) copy is built via a Hilbert-transform approximation, and the per-bar phase advance between the two is converted into a cycle period ( period = 2π / phase-rate ), then median-filtered and smoothed for stability.
It is a distillation of the open-source **"Tesla Coil"** indicator: I kept only the single robust cycle estimator and replaced the original's fixed reference level with a self-scaling baseline (the rolling median of the period), so the regime adapts to any symbol or timeframe without manual tuning.
**How to read it**
- Watch the **color**, not just the level. A rising line into red = the market is trending/stretching. A falling line into green = it's compressing/coiling.
- The **baseline** (gray line) is the median cycle length over the lookback window — the line's own "normal." Regime is always relative to that, so a "compression" on a fast asset and a slow one mean the same thing structurally.
- It describes **rhythm and volatility state, not direction.** It never tells you up or down — pair it with your own structure, trend, or entry method.
**Settings**
- **Source** — price input (default close).
- **Baseline window** — bars used for the median baseline (default 40).
- **Expansion / Compression thresholds** — how far above/below baseline triggers each state (default 1.10× / 0.90×).
- **Colors, baseline visibility, background highlight** — all optional.
Alerts fire when the cycle enters compression or expansion.
**How I use it**
I treat cycle state as a **context filter**, not a signal. It's most useful applied on your higher timeframe to judge *when* your setups are worth taking versus when the market is in a state you'd rather avoid — a modifier on decisions your own method already made, not a standalone buy/sell.
**Credits**
Built on Ehlers' instantaneous-frequency / homodyne cycle work and distilled from the open-source "Tesla Coil" indicator by **veryfid** (with contributions by DasanC and KryptoBeau). Published open-source under MPL-2.0.
**Disclaimer**
For research and education only. This is not financial advice and makes no claim about future performance. Cycle measurements are inherently lagging and smoothed — always confirm with your own analysis and risk management.
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Script de código abierto
Fiel al espíritu de TradingView, el creador de este script lo ha convertido en código abierto, para que los traders puedan revisar y verificar su funcionalidad. ¡Enhorabuena al autor! Aunque puede utilizarlo de forma gratuita, recuerde que cualquier republicación del código está sujeta a nuestras Normas internas.
Exención de responsabilidad
La información y las publicaciones no constituyen, ni deben considerarse como, asesoramiento o recomendaciones financieras, de inversión, de trading u otro tipo, proporcionadas o respaldadas por TradingView. Obtenga más información en Condiciones de uso.