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Indicator overview

Every part of CyclesX you can see: what it shows, how to read it, and which settings control it.

The Simple panel

A short briefing in plain words, on the price chart by default. Each row can be hidden. On desktop, hover a row for a fuller explanation.

[Screenshot: the Simple panel with each row labelled]

Header

What it shows: The symbol, timeframe and the time zone used for every date, with its offset from UTC today.
How to read it: Check the time zone before reading any date in the panel.
Settings: Panel, tables and dates › Time zone for dates.

🔁 Dominant Cycle

What it shows: The strongest cycle on the chart: its length in bars and in market time, and its verdict.
How to read it: Green "Strong cycle" or "Confirmed cycle": stands out clearly and repeats reliably. Orange "Developing cycle": close to passing, or a longer cycle still building history. Grey "Low confidence": not yet clear, so lean on the other readings. "Steady 0.72" or "unsteady 0.31": how closely its recent repetitions kept today’s rhythm (0.5 or more is steady). Steady cycles are the better ones to project. If a stronger, longer cycle is too long to confirm on this chart, the row names the higher timeframe to check.
Settings: Cycle filters (all).

🌊 Composite Cycle Line

What it shows: The cycles added together to draw the cycle wave, strongest first, each with its length and its own verdict colour.
How to read it: More green means a more dependable wave. Grey entries are lower-confidence cycles.
Settings: Cycle wave › Cycles in composite, Minimum spacing.

📍 Position in Cycle

What it shows: Whether the cycle wave is rising or falling, how far it has travelled from its last turn to its next one, and when the next turn is due.
How to read it: "▲ Rising · 21% of the way from trough to peak · peak due around Tue 3 Nov": early in a rise. "Trough just passed" or "Peak just passed" appears right after a turn. A ● at the start means the next turn is near. Grey italics mean the dominant cycle is graded Low confidence.
Settings: Cycle wave, Preset › Bars to project.

🔄 Turn Zone Score

What it shows: How closely the cycles line up at a turn, from -10 (all near their highs) to +10 (all near their lows), and how many are near a turn.
How to read it: 5 or more either way is a turn zone: a reason to watch for price to confirm, not a reason to act on its own.
Settings: Cycle wave › Cycles in composite.

📈 Cycle RSI

What it shows: The Cycle RSI value, its direction, and the cycle it is tuned to.
How to read it: Green "turning up from the lower band": stretched low and recovering. Red "turning down from the upper band": the opposite. Orange: still beyond a band.
Settings: Pane and Cycle RSI.

🧭 Bigger trend

What it shows: Price against the two agreement cycles’ FLDs (the two cycles you are not trading).
How to read it: Up: above both. Down: below both. Mixed: between them. With the Hurst layer off, the direction of the smooth trend.
Settings: Hurst layer › Cycles, Trade cycle.

🚦 Signal

What it shows: The FLD trade signal.
How to read it: LONG or SHORT with its grade and exit time, or Wait with the reason it is waiting.
Settings: Trade signal (all).

🎯 FLD Target

What it shows: The price and time target from the trade cycle’s latest FLD crossing.
How to read it: Pending: not reached yet. Hit ✓: reached, early, on time or late. Late: due time passed. Missed: not reached within one cycle. The % is the distance from the current price.
Settings: Hurst layer › FLD targets.

📝 Summary

What it shows: A few sentences tying the rows together.
How to read it: Read it first for a quick take, then the rows for detail. It says whether the FLD target and the next cycle turn agree.
Settings: Panel, tables and dates › Rows to show.

On the price chart

What CyclesX draws over the candles.

[Screenshot: price chart with the wave, FLD, troughs, target and expected troughs labelled]

Cycle wave on price (optional)

What it shows: Off by default. When turned on, the composite cycle is laid over the smooth trend on the price chart: solid for the past, dashed for the projection.
How to read it: The dashed part is the current rhythm carried forward, not a forecast.
Settings: General › Cycle wave on price chart, Show its projection.

FLD lines

What it shows: Hurst’s Future Line of Demarcation for each cycle, in its colour: green (shortest), orange (middle), purple (longest). By default only the trade cycle’s FLD is drawn; set FLD lines to All three to see the other two. Drawn over the same recent span as the troughs.
How to read it: Price above a cycle’s FLD suggests that cycle has turned up; below, turned down.
Settings: Hurst layer › Trade cycle, FLD lines, Recent cycles shown.

Crossings

What it shows: Small marks where a bar closes across an FLD.
How to read it: Only closes count, not wicks. A crossing creates a new FLD target.
Settings: Hurst layer › Crossings.

◆ Past troughs

What it shows: The lows of all three cycles, stacked under each low: green (shortest), orange (middle), purple (longest). The latest one of each carries the cycle’s name. Only the last few cycles are shown, over one shared span.
How to read it: More diamonds in a stack means a bigger low. Lows less than about half a cycle apart count as one low, so dips while price wiggles around the FLD do not create new troughs.
Settings: Hurst layer › Past troughs, Recent cycles shown.

◇ Possible troughs

What it shows: A hollow diamond at the lowest low since price closed below a cycle’s FLD.
How to read it: Not confirmed yet. It turns into a ◆ once price closes back above that cycle’s FLD. Wait for the ◆ before trailing a stop under it.
Settings: Hurst layer › Past troughs.

Next FLD

What it shows: A short dashed line labelled next FLD at the nearest longer cycle’s FLD, in the direction of the trade cycle’s latest crossing.
How to read it: Price often pauses there. A natural place for partial profit, or to add once a bar closes beyond it.
Settings: Hurst layer › Next FLD and target clusters.

◎ Target cluster

What it shows: A dotted line where two or more cycles’ open FLD targets sit within about one ATR of each other.
How to read it: A stronger target zone than a single target.
Settings: Hurst layer › Next FLD and target clusters.

FLD target

What it shows: A circle at the projected price and time with a label, a dotted line from the trough to the crossing and a dashed line from the crossing to the target.
How to read it: When price reaches the target, a green ✓ marks where, and the label says early, on time or late.
Settings: Hurst layer › FLD targets.

● Expected troughs

What it shows: Markers below recent candles showing when each cycle’s next low is due, with whiskers for the likely range.
How to read it: Where several cycles’ markers sit close together, a bigger low is more likely.
Settings: Hurst layer › Expected troughs, Expected trough range.

Trade levels

What it shows: Only when a signal qualifies: a LONG or SHORT label with its grade, a red stop line, an "FLD target (ref)" label and a shaded window for the trade.
How to read it: A target without trade levels means the crossing did not qualify as a signal.
Settings: Trade signal.

The pane

The indicator’s own pane below the price chart. By default it shows the cycle wave.

[Screenshot: the pane in Cycle wave mode and in Cycle RSI mode]

Cycle RSI

What it shows: An RSI tuned to the dominant cycle, with two adaptive bands and a label at the right edge.
How to read it: Turns from the bands are the moments of interest. A timing aid only.
Settings: Pane and Cycle RSI.

Cycle wave (default)

What it shows: The composite cycle in cyan on its own scale, without the trend, with its dashed projection.
How to read it: Shows the rhythm clearly, without the trend hiding it. To lay it over the candles on its own scale, move the pane onto the chart (see Using CyclesX).
Settings: Pane and Cycle RSI › Pane shows.

Full tables

Untick Simple view for the detail behind each reading.

[Screenshot: the three full tables]

Cycle scan table

What it shows: The verdict in the title row; then the dominant cycle with its consistency, strength and stability; its phase and next top and low; the composite; the trend projection; the bigger cycle and whether the two agree; and the preset in use.
How to read it: Green title: a confirmed cycle. Amber: a stronger longer cycle is building; check a higher timeframe. Grey: no strong cycle right now.
Settings: Panel, tables and dates › Show explanations column.

Hurst table

What it shows: Each of the three cycles: its name, its length, its latest crossing, target and expected trough, and how the lengths were set.
How to read it: Faded entries marked "(2x est.)" are estimated, not measured.
Settings: Hurst layer › Hurst table position.

Trade details

What it shows: Entry, stop, exit, % to stop, grade, suggested risk and the rule’s track record on the chart.
How to read it: The track record uses today’s cycle lengths for the whole history, so it is a guide, not a strict test.
Settings: Trade signal › Show trade table, Trade table position.

Alerts and screener

Create alerts from TradingView’s alert dialog with CyclesX as the condition.

[Screenshot: the alert dialog with CyclesX conditions]

Trade alerts

What it shows: LONG (grade A or B), SHORT (grade A or B), grade A only.
How to read it: With "Any alert() function call" you get messages with entry, stop and exit.
Settings: Trade signal.

Turn Zone alerts

What it shows: Bullish (+5 or more) and bearish (-5 or less).
How to read it: Useful to scan many charts for lining-up cycles.
Settings: None.

Cycle alert

What it shows: Fires when a cycle is confirmed.
How to read it: A prompt to look at a chart that has become cycle-friendly.
Settings: Cycle filters.

Screener columns

What it shows: Signal, reason, trade cycle length, grade, bars since crossing, confirmed cycle, cycle strength, dominant cycle, track record and Turn Zone score. Also stability, position in cycle (%), bars to the next turn (+ for a low, - for a high), FLD target distance (%) and status, bigger trend, and a Feature score from 0 to 100.
How to read it: Add CyclesX in the Pine Screener to filter a watchlist. Sort by Feature score to see the markets with the most going on: a confirmed, steady cycle, a turn due soon, the bigger trend agreeing and a live signal. Screener mode shows on the chart exactly what the screener sees.
Settings: Trade signal › Screener mode.