Trend
Measures direction and structure — is price making higher highs above its moving averages, and did that direction just change?
The method
No proprietary black box. Every rule that produces a signal is documented below — what it measures, the exact condition that fires it, the parameters it runs with, and where it fails.
Measures direction and structure — is price making higher highs above its moving averages, and did that direction just change?
Measures exhaustion — how stretched price is versus its own recent range, and whether sellers are running out of momentum.
Measures participation — whether real money is behind a move, or whether price is drifting on thin volume.
Why confluence
Any single indicator produces a stream of false positives — that is a property of technical analysis, not a flaw in a particular formula. The value comes from requiring independent models, measuring different things, to agree at the same moment on the same asset.
At least one Trend, one Oscillator and one Volume strategy triggered on the same asset.
All three independent pillars agree: the asset is structurally trending, momentum has turned, and volume confirms participation. Composite confidence receives a +35 synergy bonus.
Two or more categories triggered, or two or more individual strategies triggered.
Partial agreement across the model. Strong enough to act on, without the full three-pillar confirmation. Composite confidence receives a +20 synergy bonus.
A single strategy triggered, or any strategy scored 40+ confidence without triggering.
Not an entry. These assets are surfaced so you can see what is setting up before it qualifies.
How the score is built. Each strategy returns a 0–100 confidence. Those are combined into a weighted average — a strategy that actually triggered counts 2.5× against one that merely scored — and the confluence bonus is then applied. A composite of 100 does not mean certainty; it means every model in the set agreed.
The catalog
Catches the moment downside momentum flips to upside, while price is still depressed.
MACD subtracts a slow 26-day EMA from a fast 12-day EMA; the result is smoothed into a 9-day signal line. When the fast line crosses above the signal line, short-term momentum has overtaken long-term momentum. The scouter only accepts that cross when both lines are still below zero — meaning the asset is turning up from a genuine drawdown rather than extending a move that already ran.
Entry rule
MACD line crosses above the signal line on the latest daily close AND both lines are below zero.
Live parameters
Where it fails
In a sideways chop MACD crosses repeatedly and produces false starts. It is deliberately paired with a volume pillar to filter those.
Needs at least 10 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
Confirms the asset is structurally in an uptrend before anything else is allowed to fire.
Three exponential moving averages — 20, 50 and 200 day — describe short, medium and long-term trend. The strategy looks for a Golden Cross (50 crossing above 200), a 20-over-50 cross, or a fully stacked bullish structure where price > EMA20 > EMA50 > EMA200. Every case additionally requires price to be trading above its 200-day EMA, which is the platform's coarse filter for "this asset is not in a bear market".
Entry rule
Golden Cross, or EMA20 crossing above EMA50, or a stacked bullish alignment on a green candle — and in all cases price above EMA200.
Live parameters
Where it fails
Moving averages lag by construction. This strategy will never catch the exact bottom, and it whipsaws when price oscillates around the 200-day line.
Needs at least 30 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
Buys the dip inside an established uptrend rather than chasing the breakout.
When an asset is already trending, the highest-expectancy entry is usually a retracement back to a rising moving average. This strategy waits for price to tag within 1.5% of a rising EMA20 or EMA50 and then close back up, which is the signature of dip buyers defending the trend.
Entry rule
Price pulls back to within 1.5% of a rising EMA20/EMA50 and closes higher than the prior bar while the trend structure stays intact.
Live parameters
Where it fails
A pullback and a trend reversal look identical until after the fact. This fires early in a topping pattern.
Needs at least 55 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
Waits for a genuinely oversold asset to start recovering — not merely to be oversold.
RSI compares average gains to average losses over 14 days on a 0-100 scale. Below 30 is conventionally "oversold". Buying purely because RSI is low is a well-known way to lose money, because an asset in free-fall stays oversold for weeks. The scouter therefore requires the cross back *up* through 30, which times the entry to the point where selling pressure has actually relented. Confidence scales with how deep the low was and how fast RSI is recovering.
Entry rule
RSI crosses from below 30 to at or above 30 on the latest daily close.
Live parameters
Where it fails
Mean-reversion logic performs poorly in a persistent downtrend, where every bounce is sold.
Needs at least 15 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
Detects selling pressure weakening before price itself turns.
The strategy scans the last 25 days for swing lows. A bullish divergence occurs when price prints a lower low but RSI prints a higher low — the asset fell further, yet momentum did not. Historically this is one of the earliest observable signs that a downtrend is exhausting, which is why it is weighted as a leading rather than a confirming signal.
Entry rule
Two swing troughs within the lookback window where price made a lower low while RSI made a higher low.
Live parameters
Where it fails
Divergences can repeat several times before price responds. Alone it is early; in confluence it is valuable.
Needs at least 39 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
A faster, more sensitive oversold trigger for timing the entry bar.
Stochastic RSI applies the stochastic formula to RSI itself, producing a far more reactive oscillator than either indicator alone. The %K line crossing above the %D line inside oversold territory is a short-term momentum flip — useful for tightening entry timing once a slower strategy has already established the case.
Entry rule
%K crosses above %D while both are in oversold territory (below 20).
Live parameters
Where it fails
The most signal-prone indicator in the set. It is intentionally never sufficient on its own.
Needs at least 34 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
Separates moves institutions are participating in from thin, unsupported drift.
The strategy compares the latest session's volume against the 20-day average. A close that is up on at least twice the average volume means the move attracted genuine order flow rather than a handful of retail fills — the difference between a breakout that holds and one that fades the next session.
Entry rule
Latest candle closes higher than the previous close on volume ≥ 2× the 20-day average.
Live parameters
Where it fails
Volume spikes also mark capitulation and news-driven blow-off tops, so direction context from the trend pillar is required.
Needs at least 21 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
The classic trend-following breakout: buy a new multi-week high.
The Donchian channel tracks the highest high of the prior 20 sessions. Closing above it means the asset just made a 20-day high — the entry rule behind the original Turtle Trading system. The strategy also reads 14-day ATR: an expanding ATR alongside the breakout indicates volatility is opening up in the direction of the move rather than the breakout happening on a dying range.
Entry rule
Daily close above the highest high of the prior 20 sessions and above the previous close.
Live parameters
Where it fails
Breakouts fail often — typically the majority of them. Trend-following accepts a low win rate in exchange for a few large winners.
Needs at least 25 daily candles before it will emit a signal.
Every day
The scouter waits for confirmed daily candles. Nothing is evaluated on a forming bar, so a signal cannot appear and then vanish intraday.
Every listed asset is pulled in rate-limited batches. Zero-volume holiday bars are filtered out before any indicator touches the series.
Each asset is scored by all eight strategies independently, then assigned a confluence tier based on which pillars agreed.
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