Indicators — Trend Continuation

Four engines, one question: does the trend live?

The stack

Independent confirmations, combined.

Each engine answers differently: Ichimoku reads structural position, MACD reads momentum state, RSI-MFI reads participation and flow, ADX reads trend strength. Continuation confidence rises when independent reads agree — exactly the evidence Trend Partial trailing and Trend No-Partial patience require.

Supports the 1.6R trend-unlock and 1.8R delayed-activation checkpoints with live context.
Weak continuation reads argue for earlier banking — feeding the variant lenses, not overriding them.

Reading the stack

Agreement, partial agreement, and veto.

Full agreement across Ichimoku, MACD, RSI-MFI, and ADX is the high-confidence continuation read that supports patient trailing. Partial agreement — momentum firing without structural support, or strength without participation — argues for Trend Partial's earlier banking over No-Partial patience. Systematic disagreement is a veto on trend management regardless of how the chart feels.

01ADX weakness during a trail is the earliest exit-tightening cue the stack provides.

02The read pairs with the volatility zone: continuation confidence in an Extreme zone still demands wider coefficients or a pass.

03Stack state at entry and at key checkpoints gets captured, feeding later analysis of which reads actually predicted continuation.

The core idea

How MARS uses this

MARS anchors stops, break-even triggers, and distance expectations to ATR on the designated authority timeframe. The same coefficient produces wide stops in violent conditions and tight ones in quiet conditions, keeping the probability of a noise stop-out roughly constant across regimes.

How it benefits you

Fixed-pip distances stop punishing you for the market changing size. Stops survive ordinary noise, break-even moves stop converting winners into scratches, and every distance decision is defensible in volatility terms instead of round numbers and feel.

Price inside its volatility envelope. The stop is quoted in ATR, and break-even is earned at a volatility-defined distance - not felt.

Reference

The six-filter confluence stack

Filter	Condition (bullish)	What it guards against
Ichimoku (9/26/52)	Price above cloud, Tenkan > Kijun	Trading against structural bias
MACD (12/26/9)	Histogram above zero and rising	Entering as momentum dies
RSI / MFI (14)	≥ 60 (≤ 40 bearish)	Weak-momentum false continuations
ADX (14)	≥ 20 and rising	Chop and fading trends
EMA stack 9/21/55/233	Fully ordered (optional)	Messy multi-timeframe structure
ATR slope	Expanding (optional)	Breakouts without volatility fuel

Inside this module

2 pages go deeper than this one.

The Four-Engine Stack

Go deeper →

Agreement / Veto Reading

Go deeper →

Connected inside MARS

This module doesn't work alone.

Connected — 01

Trend No-Partial Branch

Open system page →

Connected — 02

Variant Attribution

Open system page →

Go deeper

Operator briefs on this territory.

Deep dive — 01

The continuation stack: Ichimoku, MACD, and the momentum filter.

Structure, acceleration, participation — three questions about one trend, with settings chosen for robustness over fit.

Read the full brief →

Deep dive — 02

Alignment across timeframes: why the trigger chart isn't enough.

Four timeframes aligned on the 5m and 15m; trigger-only on the hourlies. The requirement scales with the chart.

Read the full brief →

Deep dive — 03

Majors versus crosses: why one filter setting can't serve every pair.

Tick volume is honest on majors and noisy on crosses. The filter has to know which pair it's looking at.

Read the full brief →

Every module ships in the complete MARS package.

One price. Eleven workbooks, three TradingView indicators, and the full manual library — $497.

Get MARS Pro — $497 Explore the Platform