HA Trend Flow

HA Trend Flow is a professional two-stage smoothed Heiken Ashi trend indicator for MetaTrader 5.
It is designed to clearly visualize market trends, reduce noise and reliably identify sideways market phases – without repainting.

Ideal for trend traders, scalpers, swing traders and multi-timeframe analysis.

✅ Key Benefits

• ✔ Much smoother trends compared to standard Heiken Ashi

• ✔ 2-stage smoothing (OHLC + Heiken Ashi)

• ✔ Automatic sideways / chop detection

• ✔ Clear neutral & doji candle identification

• ✔ Fully customizable colors or style presets

• ✔ No repainting – closed candles only

• ✔ Optional alerts on trend changes

• ✔ Works on all symbols and timeframes

📊 Comparison: HA Trend Flow vs. Standard Heiken Ashi

Result:
HA Trend Flow produces fewer signals, but significantly higher-quality signals.

🎨 Style & Color Presets

🔹 Included Style Presets

• Classic: Lime / Tomato / Gold

• Soft: MediumSeaGreen / OrangeRed / Khaki

• Light Background: DarkGreen / FireBrick / Goldenrod

• Color-Blind Safe: DodgerBlue / Orange / Silver

➡ Optional custom colors can be enabled by the user.

⚙️ Full Input Parameters Description

🔸 Candle Appearance

• Candle width (1..3)
  Adjusts the thickness of Heiken Ashi candles

🔸 Smoothing – Stage 1 (OHLC)

• Stage 1 smoothing method (OHLC)
  EMA / SMA / SMMA / LWMA

• Stage 1 smoothing period
  Controls the first smoothing level (noise reduction)

🔸 Smoothing – Stage 2 (Heiken Ashi)

• Stage 2 smoothing method (HA)
  Second smoothing applied directly to Heiken Ashi values

• Stage 2 smoothing period
  Fine-tunes overall trend smoothness

🔸 Neutral & Sideways Logic

• Enable neutral/doji color
  Enables neutral candle detection

• Doji threshold in points
  Defines when a candle is considered a doji

• Mark sideways as neutral
  Automatically marks sideways market phases

• Candles to estimate volatility
  Lookback period for volatility calculation

• If body ≤ X% of average range ⇒ neutral
  Core chop-filter logic

🔸 Alerts (Optional)

• Enable alerts

• Alert when color flips up ↔ down

• Alert when neutral/doji appears

• Popup alert

• Push notification (MT5 settings required)

➡ All alerts are triggered only on closed candles (no repainting).

🧠 Typical Use Cases

• Trend filter for Expert Advisors

• Entries only in trend direction

• Exit signals on color change

• Market phase detection (trend vs. range)

• Multi-timeframe confirmation (e.g. H1 trend, M15 entry)

🏁 Conclusion

HA Trend Flow is not just another Heiken Ashi variant — it is a professional trend-flow indicator:

Less noise.
More structure.
Clear market phases.