Layered Zone Matrix [MarkitTick]

💡Layered Zone Matrix turns the crowded, contradictory picture a chart presents into a single decision surface: one price band that matters right now, a graded verdict on whether that band is worth trading, a complete trade plan attached to it, and the same treatment repeated across up to seven other timeframes so you always know whether the move in front of you is the whole story or a detail inside a larger one. Most traders lose money not because they cannot find levels, but because they find too many and have no consistent way to rank them, no objective test for whether a break through one is real, and no discipline about where the trade dies. This tool answers all three questions on every bar. It marks the band, grades it on four independent readings that either agree or visibly do not, projects an entry, an invalidation and a three-step target ladder measured in risk multiples from that band, and then keeps score in real time: whether the break has established itself, whether the road to the targets is open or obstructed, whether the move is decaying, and how far the position currently stands in R. Every one of those readings is displayed as a plain word or number you can act on, not a curve you have to interpret. It is built for discretionary traders who want a structured second opinion before they commit, for systematic traders who want the entry, stop and targets delivered as structured alerts their bot can consume directly, and for anyone who trades one timeframe but needs to know what the timeframes above and below are doing to the same price. Run it alone and it is a complete framework — bias, level, entry, risk, targets and exit. Run it beside your existing method and it becomes a filter that tells you when your setup has the rest of the market behind it and when it is standing on its own.

🎨 Visual Guide

● The Current-Timeframe Zone

The central object on the chart is a shaded box in indigo drawn across a band of price and spanning a stretch of time. This is the zone your chart timeframe is currently working around. Its upper and lower edges are the two prices that matter most for the next decision: price inside the box is undecided, price beyond an edge is committed until proven otherwise.

The box carries a label at its centre showing the timeframe it belongs to. When overlap hiding is active and this box has taken over other boxes, their names are appended to the same label, separated by a middle dot, so nothing is ever hidden without a visible record of it.

With the summary strip turned off, three further labels stack inside the box: an Energy line, a Breakout line and an Intent line. With the strip on, those readings move into the strip instead and the box stays clean. Both surfaces show the same values — it is purely a question of where you prefer to read them.

● Multi-Timeframe Zone Boxes

Each higher timeframe you enable draws its own box in its own colour, so you can tell at a glance which horizon owns a given band of price. The palette runs from heavy to light as the timeframe drops: deep red for Position, burnt orange for Swing, amber for Intraday, olive green for Short-Term, teal for Scalp, sky blue for Micro, lavender for Tick. Each box carries the timeframe name at its centre and, with the strip off, the same Energy, Breakout and Intent labels the current box shows.

When two boxes cover the same price band, overlap hiding leaves one on the chart and lists the names of the ones it replaced inside its label. A box that almost entirely encloses another survives regardless of its timeframe; where neither encloses the other, the higher timeframe stays. The result is a chart that never stacks four translucent rectangles on the same band.

● The Confluence Zone

Where several timeframe boxes cover a common band, that shared range is drawn as a separate gold box with a heavier border and a label listing the timeframes that meet there. Treat it as the strongest band on the chart: it is the price region multiple horizons are all working around at the same time, which makes both its edges unusually significant and its own target ladder the one worth the most attention.

● Target Ladders

Any box with targets enabled projects a horizontal ladder to the right of the chart, each line carrying a label at its right end:

An Entry line at the edge the trade would trigger through, marked with a ▶ and the exact price.
An invalidation line, drawn solid and thicker than the rest — the level at which the idea is finished.
Three target lines, stepping away from the entry.

The ladder for the current-timeframe box is drawn in the box's own colour with a dashed style. When conviction is thin or the whole setup is small relative to normal chart movement, the same ladder switches to a dotted style — a deliberate visual downgrade telling you to treat the plan as provisional. Ladders belonging to higher-timeframe boxes and to the confluence box are drawn dashed in each box's colour and tagged with that timeframe's name so several ladders can coexist without confusion.

Target labels update as price reaches each level, so a glance at the right edge tells you how far through the ladder the move has already travelled.

● The TP Cluster Zone

When targets projected by different timeframes land in the same narrow band, that band is drawn as its own box with a label to its left. Its fill colour grades the agreement: teal for strong, amber for moderate, red for weak, and a distinct green when the cluster carries independent confirmation. The label reports direction, how many timeframes agree, the centre price and a strength percentage.

This is where profit-taking gets crowded. Trade toward it, not through it, and expect reaction rather than clean continuation on first touch.

● The Dashboard

A compact two-column panel, positioned wherever you place it, organised into labelled sections. The header row shows the symbol, the chart timeframe, and a coverage percentage that turns red when the analysis is running on a thinner sample than it would like.

Lock — whether the display is holding a past entry picture or tracking live.
LIQUIDITY ZONE — Energy, Breakout Bias, Intent, Conviction, Zone High, Zone Low, Price Location, Zone Width and Risk (R).
CORE / STRUCTURE — the Magnet price, your distance to it, and the prevailing Trend.
MTF CONFLUENCE — how many timeframe boxes currently overlap, and which ones.
BREAKOUT ACCEPTANCE — whether the current break has established itself, is still on probation, or is locked out.
BREAKOUT QUALITY — HTF Rotation, Road Ahead and Excess Tail.
TRADE EXIT — the Asymmetric Exit reading on an open position.
QUALITY SCORE — Setup Score before entry, Deterioration after it.
TP CLUSTER — cluster strength, its price band, and whether it is confirmed.

Several rows show a pair of values joined by an arrow while a position is open or held. The value on the left is the reading as it stood when the trade triggered; the value on the right is the reading now. A pair that has degraded from left to right is telling you the conditions you entered on no longer hold.

Where a section applies to a box other than the one on your chart timeframe, its heading carries that box's name after a middle dot, so you always know which object the rows beneath it describe.

● The Summary Strip

A horizontal table anchored top-centre or bottom-centre, listing every box currently on the chart on its own row: the current-timeframe box first, then the confluence zone, then each higher timeframe. Columns run Box, Zone, Energy, Activity, Breakout, Intent, Conviction.

This is the fastest way to answer the question that matters most before any trade: do the timeframes agree, or am I the only one seeing this? A column that reads the same way down every row is alignment. A column that alternates is a warning.

Turning the strip off moves those readings back onto the boxes themselves as stacked labels.

● Chart Notices

An orange notice appears above price when conditions would compromise the readings — a synthetic chart type, a symbol without the data the analysis needs, a stretch of history too large or too thin to analyse fully. Each notice names the problem and suggests the fix. Take them seriously: every reading on screen inherits the limitation the notice describes.

● Symbol Legend

Direction and location

▲ — bullish reading, or price sitting above the zone. Beside the Magnet row it means price is above that level, followed by the distance.
▼ — bearish reading, or price sitting below the zone. Beside the Magnet row it means price is below that level, followed by the distance.
● — price is inside the zone: undecided, and the wrong place to commit.
↔ — no prevailing direction; trade the range, not the trend.
▶ — the entry line and its price. This is the level a trade triggers through.

Verdict marks

✓ — a clean reading on that row: the break has established itself, the road is open, the extreme is well supported, or the position is holding. Nothing to act on.
✅ — independent confirmation, used on the TP Cluster rows and inside the cluster label. Where a timeframe name follows it, that is the box supplying the confirmation.
○ — the cluster exists but is unconfirmed. Usable, but weaker.
⚠ — a caution flag. On a chart notice it opens the line describing the problem. On the Risk row it means the whole setup is unusually small relative to normal chart movement. Beside an extreme it means the furthest point of the move is poorly supported. On an entry label it marks a plan built on thin conviction.
⏳ — the break has not yet proven itself. On the Acceptance row it appears with an elapsed-bar count; on an entry label it means the plan is live but unconfirmed.
⏸ — that break attempt is locked out and will not be traded again until conditions reset.

Trade state marks

⟲ — this box is trading against its own structural direction. Expect the levels to behave as they normally would, but treat the setup as the more demanding of the two cases and size accordingly. It appears on the Conviction row, on entry labels, in the summary strip and inside the TP Cluster label.
⧉ — this box has taken over one or more overlapping boxes; their names are listed in its own label.
→ — separates an entry-time reading from the current one on the dashboard. Left is then, right is now.

Counts and separators

× — precedes a count of agreeing timeframes, on the Overlap row and in the TP Cluster label and row.
· — a separator between fields on one line, and between timeframe names in a box label.
– — separates the low and high of a price band on the Cluster Level row.
— — that reading is unavailable or does not apply in the current configuration.
R — a risk multiple: distance expressed as a multiple of the entry-to-invalidation distance.

📖 How to Use

● Setting Up for Your Style

Start with defaults. The current-timeframe box, its targets, the dashboard, the summary strip and the acceptance filter are all on out of the box, and that combination alone is a complete workflow. Add the rest only as you find you need it — every extra box and ladder costs chart clarity and load.

Scalpers and intraday traders. Work on your execution timeframe with the current box and its targets. Enable two higher timeframes above you — typically Intraday and Swing — with their boxes on but their target lines off. You want to see where the larger bands sit without four extra ladders in the way. Keep the acceptance filter in Entry Gate so you are never entering on a wick, and set Detail Level a little above default so the zone resolves the finer structure your timeframe trades inside.

Swing traders. Work on 1H or 4H. Enable Position and Swing boxes with their targets on, plus the confluence zone. Your best trades are the ones where the confluence box and your chart box are the same band. Detail Level at or near default is right here — you are trading the shape of the zone, not its interior.

Position traders. Work daily. Enable Position and Swing only, turn on the confluence zone and the TP Cluster, and raise the Extension Factor so the target ladder reaches distances a daily trade is actually held for. Leave the lower-timeframe boxes off entirely; they will only add noise on this horizon.

Automated traders. Configure the action strings in the Alerts group to match whatever your receiver expects, decide which boxes should transmit by enabling their target switches, then set one alert on the indicator. Every payload arrives as structured JSON carrying the action, the box that produced it, direction, entry, invalidation and first target.

● Reading the Zone Before Anything Else

The first question is always where price stands relative to the box, and the Price Location row answers it in three words.

Inside. The market is undecided. Fade the edges if you must trade, but expect chop, and do not treat the first touch of an edge as a signal. Most losing trades taken with this tool are taken inside the box.

Above. Price has committed upward. The upper edge is now the level that must hold; a close back below it is the failure signal.

Below. The mirror case. The lower edge must hold and a close back above it ends the idea.

Alongside those words the same row reports your position in the trade: how many R you are ahead or behind while a trade is open, how many R remain to the entry when it is not, or simply that the entry has been triggered.

Zone Width tells you what kind of trade is on offer, as a percentage of price. A wide zone means a large stop and a slow, positional trade; a narrow one means tight risk and a fast decision. Match it to what you are actually willing to hold. If the width looks wrong for your style, change timeframe rather than fighting it.

● The Four Readings, and What to Do About Each

Four graded readings sit on top of every box. They are independent of one another, and their value comes precisely from the fact that they can disagree.

Energy is reported as a grade — Dominant, Strong, Moderate or Weak — with a meter beside it. Dominant and Strong say this zone deserves your attention and its edges are likely to produce clean reactions. Moderate is tradeable with reduced size. Weak says the band is soft: its edges will be crossed casually and stops placed just beyond them will be taken for no reason. On a Weak zone, either stand aside or widen your stop beyond the opposite edge and accept the smaller size that forces.

Breakout Bias states which direction the zone is leaning and how firmly. When bias agrees with the direction you were already planning to trade, take the trade at full size. When it disagrees, you are trading against the zone's own lean and should either wait or halve your risk. When it reads neutral, there is no edge in direction — trade the range between the edges instead of trying to break out of it.

Intent is the slower of the two directional readings and it changes less often. Its job is to warn you when the surface direction and the underlying one point different ways. Bias up with Intent down is the classic trap: the break happens, it looks clean, and it fails within a few bars. When bias and intent agree, that is your highest-quality condition on the chart and the one worth sizing up into.

Conviction is the summary of the other three, shown as a graded word with a direction arrow. Three-way agreement is the top grade and is where your best trades live. Two-way is normal and tradeable. One-way agreement means the setup is being carried by a single reading — take it only with reduced size and a tight leash. When conviction reads at its lowest, the tool will not trade the box at all, and neither should you.

While a trade is open, the dashboard shows both the entry-time and current values of these readings side by side. Conviction that has fallen from three-way to one-way since you entered is a reason to take profit early even if no stop or target has been touched.

● The Magnet and the Trend

Two rows sit under CORE / STRUCTURE.

Magnet is a single price inside the zone that price tends to return to. Use it three ways. As a target when you are trading from an edge back into the zone. As a partial-profit level when your trade is running and the magnet lies between you and the next target. And as a warning: a trade entered when price is already very close to the magnet has little room to work before it stalls.

Dist to Magnet gives you that room as a number, with an arrow showing which side of it you are on. A large distance argues for continuation trades; a very small one argues for patience.

Trend reports the prevailing direction as bullish, bearish or neutral. Its main use is as a veto: taking a long while trend reads bearish is possible and sometimes correct, but it is a lower-probability trade and should be sized as one. When trend flips, the tool issues its own structure alerts, and the whole picture on the chart can reorganise around the new direction — expect the box to move, and expect its ladder to move with it.

● Trading the Break

The mechanics are the same for every box.

Wait for price to close beyond an edge in the direction conviction supports.
The entry line marks the level. The solid line marks where the idea is dead. The three dashed lines are your ladder.
The Risk (R) row shows the distance between entry and invalidation in price terms, followed by the three targets expressed as multiples of it. Size your position from that number, not from the chart's appearance.
If the Risk row carries a caution flag for being unusually small, skip the trade. A stop that sits inside normal chart movement will be taken by noise alone.

The first target is close enough to be reached often and is the natural place to reduce. The second is the workhorse. The third is a runner and should be treated as a bonus rather than a plan.

● Acceptance: Separating Real Breaks From Touches

The single most valuable filter here answers the question every breakout trader asks too late: was that real?

The Acceptance row grades every break on the same four-step scale — Dominant, Strong, Moderate, Weak. The higher the grade, the better established the move beyond the edge, and the less likely price is to come straight back. A Weak reading is the tool telling you the market poked its head out and lost interest.

The role you assign to that reading is the most consequential setting in the tool.

Show Only — entries fire on the plain edge cross and the grade is displayed but never acts. Choose this while you are learning what the grades look like on your instrument.
Exit Alarm — entries still fire on the cross, but a trade that never establishes acceptance is closed out. This is the setting for traders who would rather be in early and get out fast.
Entry Gate — nothing triggers until acceptance is proven. Fewer trades, later entries, materially better ones. This is the default and the right choice for most people.

While a break is being assessed the row shows a probation state with an elapsed count. A break that never establishes itself is locked out, and the row says so — that band will not be re-traded in that direction until conditions reset. Respect the lock rather than overriding it manually.

● The Quality Filters

Three optional readings answer separate questions about whether a break is worth taking. Each runs in three modes: off, display-only, or as an active filter that refuses or closes trades. Start every one of them in display-only, watch how they read on your instrument for a few dozen setups, then promote the ones that earn it.

HTF Rotation answers: is this break actually going anywhere, or is it just movement inside a bigger band? A clear reading means the path is unobstructed. A blocked percentage with a timeframe name beside it means you are breaking out into the middle of a larger box — the move has somewhere to go, but not far, and the far targets on your ladder are unlikely to be paid. Take the first target and leave.

Road Ahead answers: how far is it to the first obstacle, in R? Open road means nothing stands between the entry and the ladder. A barrier reported at a low R means your first target sits behind an obstruction and the ladder is optimistic. The rough guideline: a barrier below 1R argues for skipping the trade, between 1R and 2R argues for taking the first target only, and above 2R leaves the full ladder in play.

Excess Tail answers: was the furthest point the move reached genuinely supported, or did the market visit that level and reject it? A backed extreme is healthy. A thin one, flagged with a caution mark, is a rejection you should act on — the move has already shown you its limit. In filter mode this reading closes an open trade on its own.

Quality Score replaces the individual yes/no tests with two graded percentages. Setup Score summarises everything measurable before you commit, and works well as a single go/no-go number once you have calibrated a threshold on your own instrument. Deterioration is its opposite for an open position, rising as the trade decays. A Deterioration reading climbing steadily while price has not yet reached the first target is the earliest reliable warning the tool gives you.

● Managing an Open Position

Choose where your stop sits before you take the trade, not after.

Entry Candle Extreme — the tightest option and the most easily taken out. Best on clean, fast instruments.
Box Midpoint — a middle ground with meaningfully smaller risk than the far edge.
Box Edge — the widest and most forgiving. The right default when you are unsure.
Last Swing — the structural choice and the shipped default, placing the stop behind the last relevant turning point.

A stop too close to the entry to be meaningful is automatically replaced with the opposite edge, so your R figure always describes real risk.

Trailing has three modes. Off leaves the stop where it started. Breakeven after the first target removes your risk once the first level is paid. Step Ladder walks the stop up behind each target as it is reached. The stop only ever moves toward profit, and every move transmits its own alert — a stop that moves on the chart but not in your broker protects nothing.

The Asymmetric Exit setting decides how a return back inside the zone is treated. Off exits on the first close back inside, which is fast but produces frequent shakeouts. Display-only shows how established the return is but still exits on the single close. Filter mode requires that return to establish itself over a short window before it invalidates the trade — fewer premature exits, at the cost of giving back a little more when the failure is real. The Asym Exit row shows the reading live while the trade is open: holding, or a grade describing how well established the return back inside is.

● Working Across Timeframes

The multi-timeframe layer answers a question a single chart cannot: is the band you are trading also a band someone above you is trading?

Read the summary strip top to bottom before committing. A setup where your row and the rows above it show the same Breakout and Intent direction is a trade with the weight of the chart behind it. A setup where your row points one way and every row above points the other is a counter-trend scalp at best, and should be sized as one.

Boxes from higher timeframes are also useful purely as terrain. A target that sits inside a higher-timeframe box will struggle to be reached cleanly; a target sitting in clear space between boxes is far more likely to be paid. You can read this directly off the chart, and the Road Ahead row quantifies it for you.

Turn overlap hiding on as soon as you enable more than two timeframes. Without it, boxes stack and the chart becomes unreadable; with it, one box survives per band and the label tells you which timeframes it stands in for. The mark ⧉ on an entry label is the same information in the ladder.

● Trading the Confluence Zone

The gold box is the highest-conviction object the tool draws, and it deserves a workflow of its own.

Its edges are the levels most worth defending, because several horizons are working around the same band. A break through a confluence edge in the direction its own conviction supports, with acceptance confirmed, is the tool's strongest configuration. Enable its target ladder and trade it directly.

Set the minimum overlap requirement according to how selective you want to be. Two timeframes is permissive and produces zones regularly. Three or more produces a zone rarely, but when it does you should be paying full attention.

● Trading the TP Cluster

The cluster box marks where the targets of different timeframes bunch together. Its practical uses are specific:

As a profit target. When a cluster sits between you and your third target, take profit at the cluster instead. That is where other participants' orders are waiting.
As a reversal zone. Price arriving into a strong cluster against a trend frequently turns there. A confirmed cluster — the ✅ mark, with the confirming box named — is the version worth trading against.
As a filter. A trade whose ladder points directly into a strong cluster is a trade with a natural ceiling. Shorten your expectations rather than abandoning the setup.

The strength percentage is your ranking tool: high strength means many timeframes agree in a narrow band, low strength means a loose coincidence of two. Tighten the tolerance to demand closer agreement and produce fewer, better clusters; widen it to see more.

The Confirmation row completes the picture. A confirmed cluster has independent support behind it and can be traded as a level in its own right. An unconfirmed one is a useful target but a poor entry.

● Reviewing Trades With the Lock

Freeze on entry holds the whole picture from the most recent confirmed entry: the boxes, the entry, invalidation and target lines, and the zone readings as they stood at that moment. Live states keep running against those frozen levels, so target hits, stop hits, running R and every alert continue to work normally.

This is a review tool, and it changes how you learn from your trades. With it on, a trade that has already closed remains on the chart exactly as it was entered, so you can compare the conditions you took it on with what actually happened. The Lock row tells you at a glance which mode you are in, and the paired readings on the dashboard show entry-time against current for every relevant row.

Leave it off for live trading — you want the picture to track the market, not a past decision. Turn it on when you sit down to review.

● Alerts and Automation

The tool transmits a complete trade lifecycle. Entry alerts carry direction, the box that produced them, the entry price, the invalidation and the first target. Target alerts fire as each of the three levels is reached. Stop-move alerts fire whenever trailing advances the stop. Close alerts fire on invalidation and on every other condition that ends a trade. Structure alerts fire independently when the prevailing direction flips. Cluster alerts fire when price reaches a cluster band, with a separate condition for confirmed clusters only.

Every payload is JSON with a consistent shape, and the action names are yours to define in the settings so they match whatever your receiver expects. Two practical rules: define the stop-move action, since a stop that moves only on the chart protects nothing, and give the structure actions distinct names so your receiver can tell structure orders from box-breakout orders.

Named alert conditions are also available for manual use, covering the directional signals, box entries in both directions, each of the three targets, stop hits, stop moves and cluster arrivals.

● Load, Data Quality and Instrument Choice

Watch the coverage percentage in the dashboard header. When it turns red, one of the chart notices will explain why, and the fix is nearly always the same: choose a coarser custom timeframe so the same span is covered with less to process, or move to an instrument with a denser data feed.

Higher Detail Level, more enabled timeframes and more target ladders all cost execution time. If the tool becomes slow, reduce in that order: turn off ladders you are not trading, then disable timeframes you are not watching, then lower Detail Level. Turning the current box off does not reduce load — the analysis continues to run and the dashboard, alerts and other boxes are unaffected.

On synthetic chart types the notice will appear because the prices themselves are synthetic. The tool will still run, but every reading and every level describes the synthetic series rather than the market, and should not be traded on.

⚙️ Inputs and Settings

● 📈 Layered Zone Settings

📦 Show Current-TF Box — draws the current-timeframe box, its labels and its targets. Turning it off only hides them; the dashboard, the alerts and the other boxes are unaffected.
↳ 🎯 Current-Box Targets — projects the entry, invalidation and three-step ladder for the current box.
⚙️ Use Custom Timeframe — overrides the automatic choice of analysis resolution with your own.
⏱️ Custom Timeframe — the resolution used when the override is on. Coarser settings cost less and cover more history; finer settings resolve more detail at higher load.
🔢 Detail Level — how finely the zone is resolved, from 5 to 153, default 24. Higher values expose finer structure at the cost of execution time; the ceiling is set where added detail starts competing with the platform's limits.
🌊 Smooth Cluster — evens out isolated noise in the readings when running at high detail. Off by default.
Radius — how strongly that smoothing is applied, from 1 to 10.

● 🗂️ Multi-Timeframe Boxes

👁️ Show Multi-TF Boxes — master switch for the higher-timeframe boxes. Colours run lighter as the timeframe drops.
🚫 Hide Overlapping (keep dominant box) — where boxes cover the same band, shows one and lists the rest inside its label. Enable this as soon as you use more than two timeframes.
🎯 MTF-Box Targets — master switch for the higher-timeframe trade ladders. Each timeframe is then gated by its own targets toggle. Off by default; this adds many lines and load.
🏔️ Position and its timeframe field — the highest slot, weekly by default.
↳ Position Targets — draws this slot's ladder independently of its box, so you can keep the box without the lines or the lines without the box.
🌊 Swing and its timeframe field — daily by default, with its own ↳ Swing Targets toggle.
☀️ Intraday and its timeframe field — four-hour by default, with its own ↳ Intraday Targets toggle.
⏱️ Short-Term and its timeframe field — one-hour by default, with its own ↳ Short-Term Targets toggle.
⚡ Scalp and its timeframe field — thirty-minute by default, with its own ↳ Scalp Targets toggle.
🔬 Micro and its timeframe field — fifteen-minute by default, with its own ↳ Micro Targets toggle.
⚛️ Tick and its timeframe field — five-minute by default, with its own ↳ Tick Targets toggle.

Each slot's timeframe field is free — the names are conveniences, not constraints. A slot set below your chart timeframe is ignored.

● 🎯 Confluence

🎯 Show Confluence Zone — highlights the band where several timeframe boxes overlap.
↳ 🎯 Confluence-Box Targets — draws the full entry, invalidation and three-target ladder for that band.
Min Overlapping TFs — how many boxes must share a band before it is flagged, from 2 to 7. Raise it for fewer and stronger zones.

● 🎯 Breakout Targets

Extension Factor — stretches the whole ladder, from 0.3 to 3.0. At 1.0 the targets sit at the standard multiples; at 2.0 every step doubles. Values below 1.0 are treated as 1.0. Raise it for longer holds, leave it alone for intraday work.
Show Invalidation Level — draws the level that ends the idea. Leave this on.
⟲ Enable Reversal — allows a box to trade against its own structural direction when the opposing reading is strong enough. Reversals engage at a high threshold and only release below a lower one, and a conflicting directional reading blocks them. Off by default, in which case every box trades its plain structural direction and nothing is ever marked ⟲.
🔒 Freeze Chart on Entry — holds the picture from the most recent confirmed entry until a newer one replaces it. Live states keep running against the frozen levels. Off by default, which is what you want for live trading; turn it on for review.
✅ Acceptance Filter — master switch for the acceptance grading. Off reduces entries to a single close beyond the edge.
⚙️ Acceptance Role — Show Only displays the grade without acting on it; Exit Alarm closes a trade that never establishes acceptance; Entry Gate refuses entry until acceptance is proven. Entry Gate is the default and the most selective.
⚖️ Asymmetric Exit — Off invalidates on one close back inside the edge; Show Only measures the return but still exits on that close; Filter requires the return to establish itself first.
🛑 Stop Loss At — Entry Candle Extreme, Box Midpoint, Box Edge or Last Swing. Last Swing is the default. A stop too close to the entry to be meaningful is replaced with the opposite edge so the R figure stays honest.
🪜 Trail Stop — Off keeps the stop at entry; Breakeven after TP1 moves it to the entry level once the first target pays; Step Ladder additionally moves it to the first target when the second pays. The stop only moves toward profit, and every move transmits.

● 🧪 Breakout Quality

🧭 HTF Rotation — Off, Show Only or Filter. In Filter mode a break landing inside a larger box is refused as an entry.
🛣️ Road Ahead — Off, Show Only or Filter. Reports the distance from the break to the first obstacle in R, and in Filter mode refuses entries with too little room.
🕳️ Excess Tail — Off, Show Only or Filter. In Filter mode a poorly supported extreme closes the open trade.
🧮 Quality Score — Off, Show Only or Filter. Replaces the individual pass/fail tests with a Setup Score before entry and a Deterioration reading after it; Filter mode gates on both.

Promote each of these from Show Only to Filter one at a time. Enabling several filters at once on an unfamiliar instrument produces very few entries and no information about which filter was responsible.

● 🔗 TP Cluster Zone

🔗 Show TP Cluster Zone — highlights bands where targets from several timeframes agree. Requires the multi-timeframe boxes.
🔢 Min Agreeing TFs — how many distinct timeframes must land in the same band, from 2 to 9.
📐 Tolerance Mode — ATR or Percent, deciding how the agreement band is measured.
📐 ATR × Tolerance — in ATR mode, how many ATRs apart targets may sit and still merge. Lower values demand tighter agreement.
📐 Percent Tolerance % — the same control in Percent mode, as a percentage of price.
🧲 Weight by Intent — blends cross-timeframe agreement with the intent readings of the boxes that formed the cluster, so a band whose intent supports its direction scores higher. Off means strength comes from timeframe count alone.
📐 ATR Length — the ATR length used for cluster tolerance only, independent of everything else.
🧲 Require Intent Confirmation — draws only clusters that carry independent confirmation. Off draws every qualifying cluster and simply marks the confirmed ones.

● 📊 Dashboard

📊 Show Dashboard — the summary panel.
Position — Top Right, Top Left, Bottom Right, Bottom Left or Middle Right.
Summary Strip Position — anchors the horizontal box-summary table at the top or bottom centre of the chart. It stays horizontally centred either way and does not affect the dashboard.

● 🔔 Alerts

↑ Long Action and ↓ Short Action — the values placed in the action field of a breakout entry payload. Match these to the commands your receiver expects.
✕ Close Long Action and ✕ Close Short Action — the values sent when a position is closed.
◆ TP-Hit Action — sent as each target is reached.
↕ Move SL Action — sent whenever a reached target moves the stop. Configure this; a stop that moves on the chart but is not transmitted protects nothing.
The four structure-shift action fields — two entry and two close values, sent when the prevailing direction flips rather than when a box breaks. Give them distinct names so your receiver can separate them from box orders.
🔗 TP Cluster Action — sent when price reaches a cluster band.

● 🎨 Layered Zone Colors

Current-TF: Box Color and Current-TF: Text Color — the fill and label colour of the current-timeframe box.
Position / Swing / Intraday / Short-Term / Scalp / Micro / Tick: Box Color — one colour per higher-timeframe slot. Keep them distinct; you will be identifying boxes by colour at a glance.
Bias Up Text, Bias Down Text and Bias Neutral Text — the three colours used for the directional readings.
The two Intent text colours — the positive and negative states of the Intent reading, sitting directly beneath the bias colours in the group.
Conviction Mixed Text — the colour used when conviction is partial rather than full.
Confluence: Box Color and Confluence: Text Color — the shared-band box and its label.
Dashboard: Header BG, Row BG, Section BG and Text Color — the panel's own palette.
Trade Label Text — the text colour on ladder labels. Label text automatically switches to a dark variant where that reads better against the line colour.
TP Cluster: Strong / Medium / Weak Fill — the three strength colours of the cluster box.
TP Cluster: Confirmed Fill and Confirmed Border — the distinct treatment given to a confirmed cluster.
TP Cluster: Border and TP Cluster: Text — the outline and label colour of an unconfirmed cluster.

● 🔲 Embedded Label Style

Box Background Color — the backing panel behind the labels drawn inside boxes. Darken it to make label text readable over busy price action; lighten it toward transparency to keep the chart open.

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