Throughline — the Heikin-Ashi turn inside a trend.

Smoothed candles

Heikin-Ashi candles are built from averaged prices rather than raw ones. The effect is a chart where a trend appears as an unbroken run of one colour and the noise that breaks up a normal candlestick chart simply disappears.

That makes the colour flip a genuinely meaningful event rather than the everyday occurrence it is on a raw chart.

The flip that is a pullback

A flip from red to green is the signal — but only while price holds above its long-term average. That condition is what makes the difference between a dip ending and a trend ending, and it is the whole reason this is built as a continuation rather than a reversal.

The cooldown matters more here than almost anywhere: colour flips CLUSTER in choppy conditions, and that clustering — not the signal itself — was the drawdown. Spacing the entries was what made this one work.

The settings that matter

Cooldown Bars is the dial that defines it — how long it waits after a trade before another flip can fire. It is the difference between a clean run of trades and a cluster of them in the same chop.

Trend Period sets the long-term average that decides whether a flip is a pullback or a reversal, and the ATR stop with a 3R target shapes the trade.