STOP_TRADING_MODE

📘 Release Notes

STOP_TRADING_MODE — Stable Release

Version: 1.0.0

Status: Stable / Production-ready

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🎯 Purpose

This indicator is designed to identify market regimes, not to generate constant trade signals.
Its primary goal is to protect the trader from low-quality environments and highlight rare, high-quality interaction points with equilibrium.

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🧠 Core Concepts
• STOP Mode — identifies impulsive, dangerous, or one-sided market conditions
• Equilibrium (MID / EQ) — represents the auction balance, not a trend level
• MAGNET vs SPRING — distinguishes range behavior from trend behavior
• EQ_HOLD — highlights valid reactions at equilibrium only in a range-friendly environment

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✅ What’s Included

🔴 STOP Mode (Background Only)
• Red background marks:
• volatility spikes (ATR expansion)
• impulsive candles
• one-directional movement
• No entry signals
• Used strictly as a risk-environment filter

🟨 MID (Equilibrium Line)
• Calculated as SMA of HL2
• Acts as:
• Magnet in ranging markets
• Spring in trending markets
• Not a trade trigger by itself

🔁 MAGNET / SPRING Regime Detection
• Based on:
• frequency of MID crossings
• time spent near equilibrium
• market “trendiness” ratio
• Regime labels appear only when the regime changes
• Prevents constant label repainting or noise

🟢 EQ_HOLD Signal (Rare by Design)
• Triggered only when:
• STOP mode is OFF
• MID behaves as MAGNET
• price reacts cleanly at equilibrium
• Designed for micro-scaling / position management, not aggressive entries
• Low frequency = high informational value

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🚫 What Was Removed (By Design)
• No STOP / STOP_OFF labels on chart (alerts only)
• No constant signal spam
• No reliance on trend prediction
• No “buy/sell” prompts

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🎛 UI & Usability Improvements
• Clean, minimal visual layout
• Color logic aligned with meaning:
• 🔴 Risk / danger
• 🟨 Balance / structure
• 🟢 Action-permitted condition
• Optional toggles for regime and EQ_HOLD labels

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🧪 Known Behavior (Not Bugs)
• MID crossing does not immediately change regime
• STOP may activate after entry — this signals risk management mode, not exit
• EQ_HOLD appears infrequently by intention

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🧩 Intended Usage
• Best suited for:
• range-aware traders
• scale-in / scale-out strategies
• discretionary decision support
• Not intended for:
• high-frequency trading
• signal-following automation
• prediction-based entries

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🧠 Design Philosophy

“Silence is a feature.”

If the indicator does nothing —
the market likely offers nothing worth doing.