Which market does the chart describe?
Every technical page uses the Maketo combined Bitcoin spot market. Its prices summarize the same covered market throughout the calculation; volume is measured in Bitcoin. It is not a claim to represent every Bitcoin trade in the world.
A candle has an opening price, high, low, closing price and traded volume. Its timestamp is the start of the interval in UTC. Weeks begin Monday at 00:00 UTC. Monthly, quarterly, half-year and yearly candles follow calendar boundaries, not a fixed number of seconds.
Shorter candles cannot be reconstructed from daily bars. Missing price, volume or trade-side inputs stay missing. The chart does not fill a missing minute with an invented flat candle or treat missing volume as zero.
How are the formulas kept consistent?
Daily and live readings use the same versioned formulas. Each page states its default variant and parameters. A period always counts candles: 14 hourly periods cover a different duration from 14 daily periods.
Simple averages require their complete window. Exponential averages use their declared initialization and retain the available earlier history. Wilder smoothing uses its own period-based coefficient. Gaps restart a continuous calculation segment; they are not silently bridged. A value stays unavailable until its required history exists.
Calculations use the complete available candle history. Changing the visible chart range only changes the drawing, never the calculation’s starting point. Long histories may be reduced for display only, after the calculations use complete inputs.
Candle-based VWAP weights typical candle prices by volume. Its separately named trade-weighted variants divide actual quote volume by actual Bitcoin volume. The interface names the chosen method, and a missing quote-volume input does not silently turn an exact variant into an estimate.
Automatic Fibonacci references use the prior 100 completed candles, with the most recent occurrence of equal extremes determining anchors. Manual drawings retain the chosen dates and prices in the shared view. Ichimoku’s shifted cloud is a drawing convention, never future price data.
What do the three gauges count?
Each eligible group contributes +1 for a rising pattern, 0 for a mixed pattern or −1 for a falling pattern. A group with missing inputs contributes nothing and is counted as unavailable. Net agreement is 100 times the average eligible vote. The visible dial maps −100 to its left end and +100 to its right end.
| Reading | Groups | Required coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Trend | One moving-average group, Aroon, directional movement, Ichimoku and Supertrend | At least 4 of 5 |
| Momentum | RSI, MACD, stochastic, rate of change and Ultimate Oscillator | At least 4 of 5 |
| Volume confirmation | On-Balance Volume and Chaikin Money Flow | Both |
| Combined | 40% Trend + 40% Momentum + 20% Volume confirmation | All three groups available |
A net agreement of +25 or more reads Rising; −25 or less reads Falling; the space between reads Mixed. These labels describe agreement among calculations of past prices. They are not probabilities or instructions to place a trade.
Trend rules
- The moving-average group counts once. Price must be above both the 50-period simple and exponential averages, with both averages higher than five candles earlier, for +1. All comparisons reversed give −1; otherwise the group is mixed.
- Aroon uses the difference between its Up and Down lines. At or above +20 is rising, at or below −20 is falling, and the middle is mixed.
- Directional movement compares +DI with −DI. ADX strength alone never chooses direction.
- Ichimoku requires price above both cloud boundaries and conversion above base for rising. Both conditions reversed give falling; disagreement is mixed.
- Supertrend compares the close with its active trailing line.
Momentum rules
- RSI and Ultimate Oscillator use a middle band from 45 to 55. Values at or above 55 contribute +1 and values at or below 45 contribute −1.
- MACD requires its line above zero and above its signal line for +1. Both below gives −1; disagreement is mixed.
- Stochastic requires %K above 50 and above %D for +1, with both comparisons reversed for −1.
- Rate of change uses the sign of its 12-period percentage change.
Volume confirmation rules
On-Balance Volume must be above its 20-period exponential average and above its value five candles earlier for +1; both comparisons reversed give −1. Chaikin Money Flow contributes +1 at or above 0.05 and −1 at or below −0.05. Values between those thresholds are mixed. Disagreement is retained rather than hidden.
Alternative settings on an individual page do not change the hub’s fixed defaults. ATR, volume size, choppiness, ADX strength, pivots and Fibonacci levels do not vote simply because their values are high or low. Closely related RSI variants are not extra votes.
Why can the daily paragraph differ from my chart?
The dated daily paragraph uses the last completed UTC day and the default settings. It remains readable even when the live chart is unavailable. The live explorer is separate: it refreshes candles about every five seconds while visible and uses the selected interval.
An open candle may appear on the chart, but it never supplies the settled reading or the gauge vote. Weekly and yearly readings need enough completed weeks or years. A 200-period yearly average cannot exist until 200 yearly candles exist.
The browser pauses its feed while the page is hidden and reloads available history when it resumes. If data is delayed, the last observed timestamp remains explicit. Neither the page build nor a fresh HTTP response makes old observations new.
How can another reader check the same view?
Copy the view link to preserve interval, formula, settings and visible range. A manual drawing also preserves its anchors. The link uses the latest available data when opened; it is not a permanent data archive. Export an image to preserve the displayed chart and its cutoff time.
Every exported chart carries its source page and observation cutoff. Maketo’s reuse and citation terms explain how to credit a page. Formula and example sections have stable links so a citation can point to the exact explanation.
Calculation version
Current calculation core: 1.0.0. Version 1 establishes the combined spot-market basis, complete-candle readings, grouped gauges and explicit distinction between display history and calculation history.
A change to formulas, seeding, market basis or gauge votes requires a versioned revision and matching browser and daily results. A changed color or chart range does not change the calculation version.