PATTERN · INDICATOR — ON CANDLE CLOSE
MACD Cross
MACD crosses its signal
FIRES WHEN
Fires when the MACD line crosses the signal line on the just-closed bar, in your chosen direction.
MACD tracks the gap between a fast and a slow EMA; its signal line smooths that gap. When MACD crosses the signal, short-term momentum has just flipped against the recent baseline.
HOW TRADERS READ IT
A bullish cross below the zero line is an early turn; above zero, trend continuation. Crosses on higher timeframes carry more weight and fire less. Confirm with the book — a bullish cross into a stacked offer wall is a very different trade from one into thin air.
SETTINGS
| Setting | What it does | e.g. |
|---|---|---|
| Timeframe | Candle timeframe the indicator is computed on | 1m / 5m / 15m / 1h / 4h / 1d |
| Fast period | Number of bars in the calculation | 12 |
| Slow period | Number of bars in the calculation | 26 |
| Signal period | Number of bars in the calculation | 9 |
| Direction | bullish = cross up, bearish = cross down | bullish / bearish |
12/26/9 is the textbook setting; widen the periods on noisy small-caps to cut whipsaw crosses.
THE ALERT
Every alert lands in Telegram with a Replay link that opens the book at the exact firing moment.
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