Constructing a color stack from every lookback

Start from the price plot

The display is built from a conventional price plot. Under the first bar, mark whether the shortest lookback is rising or falling, then repeat that polarity mark for each longer lookback until the pane is filled.

After the first bar is fully stacked, the same all-lookback coloring is repeated under every later price point. Interval polarity is whether ordered prices over a chosen bar count are classified as rising or falling at one date. The finished vertical column under a bar is the color stack: one mark per lookback, with shade intensity scaled to slope.

Assign two hue families

Rising lookbacks are assigned one hue family and falling lookbacks another. Brighter shades are reserved for steeper slopes. Only two polarity families are used, and the brightest shades still belong to those families.

Read matching hues as one object

Matching hues form contiguous blocks. Each block is identified as one multi-horizon trend object rather than a random scatter of interval readings. That contiguous block is a same-color cluster.

Several blocks run at once, with smaller blocks forming inside larger ones. A TradersWeek editorial reading treats those same-color clusters as nested channels under the price pane.

Take parent direction from the newest columns

Parent direction for the window is taken from whichever hue occupies more of the right-hand side of the stack. The dominant right-edge hue is that polarity: the one that occupies more of the newest columns and is treated as the parent trend filter for the window.

The right-edge majority hue is identified with the largest block spanning the window. Every smaller block is treated as operating inside that parent filter, which is given as why a single column can look conflicting.

Watch how a block ends

A completed down-block is shown with price already rising at its right edge, and a completed up-block with price already falling. After one block ends, an opposite-polarity block and an ordinary swing in that new direction are described as often starting promptly, but not in every case.

Follow the nested trend cycle

An impulse is described as recoloring short lookbacks first and longer lookbacks only after a larger directional move. When the impulse fades, short lookbacks revert first and long lookbacks last. That sequence is one nested trend cycle.

Hand the reading to one procedure

A trend filter is a defined-lookback classifier that labels each bar rising or falling from ordered prices. A moving average is a same-horizon quantitative baseline on ordered prices; stacking every lookback is taught as inspecting that full baseline family at once instead of selecting one length.

Trend following is a single procedure that converts parent-hue and cluster-boundary readings into entry, exit, or abstention signals over the swing holding period. A TradersWeek editorial reading allows that procedure to treat only the dominant right-edge hue as the parent baseline, and to read conflicting marks in the same column as smaller blocks inside that filter.