Tide paints a triple-EMA regime ribbon on your execution chart and lays the higher-timeframe structure directly over it — so every signal you see is already aligned with the flow that actually moves the market.
Counter-trend losses rarely come from bad entries. They come from taking a clean setup on your chart while the timeframe above it is pointed the other way. Tide makes that mistake hard to commit.
Three EMAs on your chart timeframe, filled between fastest and slowest. Stacked bullish, the ribbon runs blue. Stacked bearish, pink. Tangled, it goes neutral and quiet. You read the market's state peripherally, without looking at a single number.
EMAs cross constantly in chop. Tide's arrows only fire when all three are stacked and the ribbon is spread past your gap threshold — in ticks, points, or percent. Order without separation is noise; Tide waits for both.
The 5-minute structure is drawn dashed on your execution chart — computed as a mathematically equivalent long-lookback on your own series, so no second data feed is loaded and nothing slows down. Enable the filter and counter-tide arrows are simply suppressed.
One checkbox and every signal must agree with the secondary-timeframe EMA structure. The setups that fight the tide never reach your chart. Auto-map derives the higher timeframe from your chart period, or set it manually.
A second, independent filter: require MACD agreement on its own timeframe before an arrow prints, with absolute or percentage thresholds. Stack it with the HTF filter for the strictest signal set, or leave both off and read the raw ribbon.
Weak alignments fade; strong ones saturate. The ribbon's intensity is itself information — a pale ribbon is the market telling you it isn't convinced yet.
Optional realtime background tint on the forming bar — directional or neutral orange — plus native NinjaTrader alerts the moment a new signal bar appears, with instrument and timeframe in the message.
The usual way to show a higher timeframe is loading another bar series, which is the main source of multi-timeframe lag. Tide reproduces the HTF curve on your primary series instead — the chart stays as fast as it was before you added it.
Default calculation is on-tick for a live feel, which means the forming bar's signal can change until it closes. Prefer certainty? One setting switches to bar-close-only and every arrow you see is final. Your choice, stated plainly.
Nothing here replaces what you know — it is moving averages, the tool you already trust to find a trend. The difference is everything a manual ribbon leaves you to judge, squint at, or flip timeframes to check. Tide turns those judgment calls into defined, mechanical states.
None of this is a smarter moving average. It's the same math you already read, with the manual judgment taken off your plate so you can spend attention on the entry instead of the bookkeeping.
Tide reads price bars — no depth feed, no special subscription. One honest note: the dashed higher-timeframe lines are a mathematically equivalent reconstruction, not a literal second feed. They track the true HTF curve extremely closely, but during violent single-bar moves the true curve steps in blocks while Tide's glides. In exchange, your chart doesn't carry a second data series.
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No. Tide reads price bars only. Any data feed that drives NinjaTrader drives Tide, on any instrument.
The EMAs are the least of it. The value is the regime-colored fill you can read peripherally, the gap threshold that separates a real stack from a chop tangle, the higher-timeframe structure drawn on the same chart without a second data series, and the two filters that suppress everything fighting the larger flow. Three EMAs show you lines; Tide makes a decision framework out of them.
In the default on-tick mode, an arrow on the still-forming bar can appear and withdraw until that bar closes — that's the cost of a live reading, and it's stated here rather than discovered later. Switch calculation to bar-close and arrows only ever print on completed bars, final. Closed-bar history never changes in either mode.
Everything: three chart EMAs and three HTF EMAs styled individually in the Plots tab, ribbon colors for both timeframes, neutral colors, arrow colors, opacity ceilings, and the dynamic-fade behavior. The blue/pink default is distinctive, but it's yours to restyle.
Any time-based chart, with the HTF mapping auto-derived (a 15-second chart maps to 5-minute structure, and so on) or set manually. On tick, volume, or range bars the HTF reconstruction falls back to chart-timeframe behavior — the ribbon and signals still work; the dashed structure lines just lose their meaning, so time bars are where Tide is strongest.