Guide
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Quick Start
You should be reading the cloud and the heatmap within five minutes.
Guide relies on TitanCore for visual consistency. If TitanCore is not on the chart, add it first. If it is already there, proceed.
Search in Indicators. Once added, you will see four moving average lines appear directly on price and a coloured cloud filling the space between them. The heatmap table will appear in a corner of your chart.
Start on the 1H or 4H chart if you are new to Guide. These timeframes show the structure clearly without too much noise. Once you understand how the cloud reads, drop to lower timeframes if that is where you trade.
The cloud gives you the current timeframe's trend health. The heatmap gives you the bigger picture across multiple timeframes. Use them in that order: what is happening now, then does the bigger picture agree.
What You Should See
Here is what a correctly loaded Guide chart looks like.
All four moving averages are in bullish order. The fast line is above the others. The slow line is at the bottom. The cloud is filled green. The trend is up and structured.
The order has inverted. Fast is at the bottom, slow at the top. The cloud is red. The trend is down and structured. The same logic applies in the opposite direction.
The moving averages are tangled, crossing each other. The cloud is grey. The market is undecided. This is not a signal. It is a signal to wait.
Heatmap legend: In the corner table, each row represents a timeframe. The symbols tell you the direction on that timeframe:
- >>> = Bullish on that timeframe
- <<< = Bearish on that timeframe
- - - - = Neutral, no clear direction
Screenshot coming: Guide active on 1H chart with green cloud, labelled MA lines, and heatmap table visible
Reading It in Three Session Types
Guide reads differently depending on what the market is doing. Here is how to interpret it in each environment.
Cloud is a consistent colour. The four MA lines are cleanly spaced, not crossing each other. The heatmap shows the same direction on most rows. Price is making higher highs and higher lows, or lower lows and lower highs.
Pullbacks to the Guide line or Mean line are your entries. The cloud colour tells you which direction to trade. The heatmap tells you how much conviction to trade with.
Cloud is grey or changing colour frequently. The MA lines are crossing each other. The heatmap shows mixed directions across rows. Compression may be flagged, meaning the lines are squeezing together tightly.
Compression is information, not a trade. If the lines are compressing, something is building. Wait for the cloud to commit to a colour before considering a position. The break after compression is often the best trade of the day.
Cloud is in the middle of changing colour. The MA lines are crossing through each other. The heatmap starts to show a shift, typically the faster timeframes moving first. The slow MA has not yet turned.
Wait for the slow MA to confirm the new direction before committing. Many reversals look convincing on the fast lines and then fade. The slow MA changing direction is the structural confirmation that matters.
Decision Flow
Cloud colour plus heatmap alignment equals your read. Here is how to act on it.
Cloud is a single, solid colour (green or red). The heatmap shows agreement on at least the majority of timeframes. Price has pulled back from an extreme and is sitting near the Guide or Mean line. You have a cloud direction, alignment, and a level.
Trade in the direction of the cloud. Use the Guide line as your reference for entry. Use the Slow line as your wider invalidation.
Cloud is a solid colour but the heatmap is mixed. Or the cloud just changed colour in the last few bars and has not been tested yet. Or compression is visible and no break has happened. You have a direction but the conviction is not there yet.
Let the heatmap build agreement. A cloud that has been green for three hours on the 1H chart, backed by the same on the 4H and daily, is a different position to one that just turned green thirty minutes ago.
Cloud is grey. Moving averages are crossing in multiple directions. Heatmap shows rows pointing both up and down in equal measure. There is no structural story to trade. The market is genuinely undecided.
A grey cloud is the tool telling you plainly: not now. That is useful information. Take it seriously.
Settings Worth Knowing
You do not need to change most settings. These are the ones that actually matter in practice.
- Scalp/Intraday Guides: Shorter-period lines suited to 1-minute to 15-minute charts. Use these if you trade very fast timeframes. They react more quickly to price action but produce more noise.
- HTF Guides: Higher timeframe lines drawn on your current chart. Useful if you want 4H or daily structure visible while trading on the 1H. Typically used as context overlays, not entry references.
- Signals: Toggle guide-based directional signals. Useful for beginners. More experienced traders often turn these off once they can read the cloud directly.
- Table Position: Move the heatmap to whichever corner is out of your way. This is the first setting to adjust if the table is covering price action you need to see.
- Balance Levels: Shows equilibrium levels derived from the MA structure. These are often useful as additional reference points, particularly for intraday traders looking for mean reversion.
Questions Members Ask
These are the real questions, not the obvious ones.
The cloud is green but price keeps falling. Is the indicator broken?
No. A green cloud means the structural layers are in bullish order, not that price will go up right now. In a healthy uptrend, price regularly pulls back and the cloud stays green through those pullbacks. The question is whether price is falling through the Guide and Mean lines cleanly. If it is, and the cloud is starting to look grey at the edges, that is early warning of the structure changing. If it is bouncing off the Guide line and turning back up, the cloud is correct and you are looking at a normal pullback.
The heatmap shows all green except one timeframe. Can I still trade?
Usually yes. One dissenting timeframe in a broadly aligned heatmap is not a reason to stand aside. The question is which timeframe is dissenting. If the immediate timeframe is against you but the swing and dominant timeframes agree, you may be catching a temporary pullback against a strong trend. If the dominant timeframe is the dissenter, take less size or wait for it to align.
What does compression actually tell me in practice?
Compression means the market's structural layers are converging. The spread between the fastest and slowest moving averages has narrowed. That is the market coiling. It does not tell you which way it breaks. But it tells you that sitting in a range trade when compression is flagged is high risk. Something is loading. Trade small or wait until the break gives you a direction, then look for a retest entry on the first pullback after the break.
I see the Guide line acting as support repeatedly. Should I always buy there?
The Guide line is a strong dynamic reference but it does not hold forever. When price has bounced from it four or five times in a row, each subsequent bounce carries slightly less conviction because the pattern becomes crowded. The fifth bounce from the same level is not the same quality as the first. Look for confluence: Guide line holding, heatmap staying bullish, and a clean reaction candle. All three together is a trade. The Guide line alone is just a level.
Which line do I use as my stop reference?
It depends on your trade. For a pullback entry to the Guide line, the Mean line below is a natural first level, but the Slow line is the structural invalidation. If you are stopped out at the Guide line and price keeps going to the Slow line, the trend structure is under genuine pressure. You can use the Slow line as a wider stop if your risk budget allows, but it should never be a surprise if price reaches it.
The cloud changed from green to red very quickly. Is that a reversal or noise?
A single-bar cloud change on a low timeframe is often noise. A cloud that stays the new colour for at least three or four bars, with the heatmap starting to shift in the same direction, is the beginning of a genuine structural change. The key test is whether the Slow line has also started to turn. That is the last one to move, and when it moves, the reversal is usually real.
Pairs With
Guide is built to work alongside the rest of the suite. These are the most natural combinations.
The structural levels from TitanCore provide the entry and exit reference points that complement the direction the Guide cloud is showing. When the cloud is green and price is at a TitanCore key level, that is a high-quality confluence point.
TitanCore member guide →When Guide shows a green cloud and Trend Guard shows all timeframes pointing up, you have the structural layers and the directional layers agreeing simultaneously. That is the highest-conviction environment for a long trade.
Trend Guard member guide →Regime Guard tells you the market mode. A trending regime from Regime Guard backing a green Guide cloud is the combination that justifies full size. A ranging or transitioning regime with a green cloud is a reason to keep size smaller even when the direction looks right.
Regime Guard member guide →What Is Coming Next
Planned additions include a cloud health score, which will give a more nuanced read than just colour. A cloud can be green but weakening. The health score will make that visible before the colour changes. There is also work in progress on cross-timeframe cloud alignment as a standalone indicator, separate from the heatmap table, to make the multi-timeframe read more visual.
Updates come through automatically. Nothing to reinstall or reconfigure when they arrive.
Need Help?
If the cloud is behaving in a way that does not match what is described here, or if you have a read you are not sure how to interpret, bring it to the community. Real chart examples are the best way to build understanding quickly.
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