Multiple Timeframe Filtered MA Crossover Signals

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ABOUT THIS FREE VERSION

This is the free version of the Multiple Timeframe Filtered Moving Average Crossover Indicator. It runs the complete signal engine — Early and Full crossovers, the MA validation stack, the MTF trend filter, RSI, MACD, and the Previous Candle Price filter — but with two constraints compared to the paid version:

1. Moving averages are chosen from a preset library of EMAs, WMAs, and SMAs at common periods from 1 up to 200.

2. The moving averages that drive the logic are computed in memory and never drawn on the chart. If you want to see them, you can add them manually one by one using the same periods you configured, then save the chart as a template.

For $30 you can upgrade to the paid version, which removes both constraints and adds VWMA and native MA plotting. Full detail at the bottom of this description.

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WHAT MAKES THIS INDICATOR DIFFERENT?

Most moving average crossover indicators on the market do one thing: they watch two moving averages cross and fire an arrow the moment the cross happens. Every cross. Every time. Whether the market is ranging, whether the higher timeframe agrees, whether momentum supports the move, whether price is at a logical entry point — none of that matters to them. You get arrows. Lots of arrows. Most of them useless.

This indicator was built on a different premise — that a crossover is only as valuable as the context that confirms it.

Instead of two moving averages, you can stack more than ten moving averages on a single timeframe and require all of them to be in a specific order before a signal is considered valid. Instead of ignoring the higher timeframe, you can filter every signal through an MA trend check on any timeframe. Instead of ignoring momentum, you can require RSI and MACD to agree. Instead of ignoring where price actually is, you can require the signal to happen at a Fibonacci retracement level inside the previous higher-timeframe candle.

Combine as many or as few of these layers as your strategy demands. The result is not a flood of arrows and alerts — it is a small, deliberate set of signals that survived every filter you chose to enable.

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A NOTE ON THE FREE VERSION'S HIDDEN MAs

After you apply the indicator and configure it, you will notice that no moving averages appear on the chart. This is a limitation of the free version. The MAs that drive the signal logic are computed in memory and never plotted.

The advantage of this limitation is that you get a chart free of MA noise — useful if you practise other forms of analysis on the same chart: drawing trendlines, marking order blocks, applying other indicators, or reading price action directly.

The disadvantage is that you cannot visually verify which MAs are where without extra effort. If you want to see them, add them manually — one by one — using the same periods you configured in the indicator's inputs. Once arranged, save the chart as a template, and next time loading that template restores all of them in a single click.

The paid version plots every MA that drives the logic directly — with per-MA color, width, and a visibility toggle — so you never need to add them manually.

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HOW THE INDICATOR WORKS, SECTION BY SECTION

1. ALERT CONFIGURATION

Decide how a signal reaches you. Each option is independent.

• Enable Alerts — pop-up alert window.

• Enable Sound — plays your chosen .wav file.

• Enable Email — sends to your terminal-configured email.

• Enable Push — sends to your MetaTrader mobile app.

• Enable Backtest Logging — writes diagnostic values to the Experts log for tuning.

2. ALERT FILTERING

• Enable Early Signal Alerts — receive Early signal alerts.

• Enable Full Signal Alerts — receive Full signal alerts.

• Suppress Early Alert if Full Fires Same Bar — when Early and Full fire on the same bar for the same direction, only the Full alert is sent, avoiding a duplicate notification.

3. ARROW APPEARANCE

• Draw Arrows — No Arrows (alerts only), Early + Full Signals, or Full Signals Only.

• Arrow Size — 1 to 5.

• Arrow Distance from Candle — pixel offset for the arrows.

Image A1 — Screenshot showing the indicator's arrow input section.

Image A6 — Screenshot showing the indicator's arrow appearance, with hollow arrows representing early signals and full body colored arrows representing full signals.

4. SIGNAL FILTER

• Signal Mode — Long Only, Short Only, or Both Directions.

• Show Early Signals — master switch for the Early subsystem.

5. EARLY SIGNAL CONFIGURATION

The Early signal is designed to detect the crossover earlier in its development — before the full validation stack lines up — giving you a heads-up that a Full signal may be forming.

• Early Fast MA — the fast moving average for the Early cross.

• Early Slow MA — the slow moving average for the Early cross.

Both are chosen from a large library that includes Exponential, Weighted, and Simple moving averages at every common period from 1 up to 200. You are not restricted to "EMA 9 and EMA 21" or any other preset pairing — pick whichever pair best matches the market you trade.

6. FULL SIGNAL CONFIGURATION

The Full signal is the confirmed crossover — the one that fires only when the crossover has occurred and all enabled validation and filter layers have agreed.

• Full Fast MA — the fast moving average for the Full cross.

• Full Slow MA — the slow moving average for the Full cross.

You can run a completely different MA pair here than you use for Early, which means you can build a two-stage system: an aggressive Early pair that gets your attention, and a stricter Full pair that confirms the trade.

7. SIGNAL TIMING

This is one of the most important settings in the entire indicator, and it deserves careful attention.

• Intrabar — signals are detected on the live, still-forming candle. The fastest detection but the noisiest — the candle can still change. Alerts fire, but no arrows are drawn in this mode, by design.

• On Close of Cross Candle — the default. Signals are detected only after the crossover candle has closed. Arrows are drawn. No repainting.

• One Candle After Close — the strictest mode. The crossover must have occurred on the previous closed candle and the relationship must still hold on the current closed candle. This eliminates false crosses that immediately reverse.

Image A2 — Screenshot showing the indicator's MA crossover input section.

8. THE MA VALIDATION ORDER — THE HEART OF THE INDICATOR

This is where the indicator leaves every other crossover tool behind. There are two identical sections in the inputs:

• Early Signal :: MA Validation Order (Buy)

• Full Signal :: MA Validation Order (Buy)

Each contains the full MA library (every EMA, WMA, and SMA from period 1 up to 200). For each MA you get two inputs: an Enable checkbox and a Position number.

HOW THE POSITION NUMBERING WORKS

You enable the MAs you want to use — say, EMA 14, EMA 5, EMA 25, and EMA 50.

You assign each one a position number. The number is not the MA period — it is the slot that MA occupies in your validation stack. You are telling the indicator which MA is the strongest leg of your setup, which is second, and so on.

When a candidate crossover fires, the indicator collects the current values of every enabled MA, sorts them by the positions you assigned, and checks whether the sorted values are in the exact order you described:

• Buy signal — values must be in strictly descending order. The MA in the top slot must currently have the highest value, the next slot the next-highest, and so on.

• Sell signal — the same check in reverse: strictly ascending order.

If the order does not match exactly, the signal is rejected. No arrow, no alert.

A CONCRETE EXAMPLE

You want a bullish stack to look like this on the chart:

EMA 14 (top — highest value) > EMA 5 > EMA 25 > EMA 50 (bottom — lowest value)

You also want the early crossover to be 1 SMA crossing 2 SMA upwards for the bullish signal, and 1 EMA crossing 2 EMA upwards for the full confirmation signal.

You would set:

MA      | Enable | Position

EMA 14  | yes    | 4

EMA 5   | yes    | 3

EMA 25  | yes    | 2

EMA 50  | yes    | 1

The indicator sorts these by position, giving [EMA 14, EMA 5, EMA 25, EMA 50]. For a Buy signal it then requires:

EMA 14 > EMA 5 > EMA 25 > EMA 50

If that chain holds at the moment of the crossover, the Buy is valid. If EMA 14 pokes above EMA 5, or EMA 25 above EMA 14, the signal is discarded.

Image A3 — Screenshot showing the indicator's MA validation order settings.

Image A6 — Screenshot showing how the example above would look for a bearish signal.

NOTE: If you want to include the moving averages involved in the crossover in the MA validation order section, you can — but only the Slow MA. If you include the Fast MA as well, the logic will not work.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Two-MA crossover indicators fail in one specific way: they generate signals in choppy, non-trending conditions where the two MAs tangle and cross repeatedly. By requiring a full stack of MAs to line up at the same moment, this indicator refuses to fire in those conditions.

You are effectively saying: "Only tell me about crossovers that happen when the market structure supports them."

Because you can enable up to 10+ MAs, the depth of validation is entirely up to you. Some traders use two MAs for a fast, loose filter. Others use eight or nine for an extremely strict one.

9. SIGNALS BY MARKET DIRECTION (FILTER BY MAs)

This is the higher-timeframe trend filter. It is separate from the validation stack above — validation checks the current timeframe, this checks another timeframe.

• Enable Signals by Trend Direction Only — on/off.

• Filter Mode — Include Price (chains Price > MA1 > MA2 > ... > MAn for buys) or MA Only (chains MA1 > MA2 > ... > MAn, ignoring price).

• MA(s) Filter Timeframe — the timeframe the filter MAs are evaluated on. Set this to whatever higher timeframe defines your trend.

• Use First through Seventh Filter MA — up to seven filter MAs, each with its own enable checkbox and MA type.

If you trade M5 but want to only take signals in the direction of the H1 trend, set the filter timeframe to H1, enable two filter MAs (say EMA 50 and EMA 200), and use MA Only mode. Every signal from your M5 engine is now checked against H1 first. If H1 says down and your signal is a buy, it is silently discarded.

10. MTF RSI FILTER

The same principle applied to momentum.

• Enable RSI Filter — on/off.

• RSI Timeframe — RSI is evaluated on a completely different timeframe from your chart.

• RSI Period, RSI Applied Price — standard RSI configuration.

• RSI Buy Threshold — Buy signals pass only if RSI is at or below this level (default 30).

• RSI Sell Threshold — Sell signals pass only if RSI is at or above this level (default 70).

11. MTF MACD FILTER

• Enable MACD Filter — on/off.

• MACD Timeframe, MACD Fast, MACD Slow, MACD Signal, MACD Applied Price — standard MACD configuration on any timeframe.

• Crossover Level — Below Zero (momentum reversal from a low) or Above Zero (continuation in an established trend).

12. MTF PREVIOUS CANDLE PRICE TRADE DIRECTION FILTER

This filter is one of the greatest strengths of this indicator. It implements what is often called the one-candle theory — a single completed higher-timeframe candle is enough to define a tradable range for the session or day. After a strong directional candle, price often retraces back into it before the trend continues. Wait for the retracement, and accept a crossover only when it fires inside a specific area of that candle, and you get an entry with natural context and a natural invalidation point.

The filter is off by default. When enabled, it becomes the final arbiter: any signal that does not fit inside the range you have defined is silently discarded, no matter how many other filters agreed.

THE ELEMENTS YOU CONFIGURE

1. Previous Candle Timeframe — the timeframe whose most recently closed candle defines the reference. Typically H4, D1, or W1. Must be higher than your chart timeframe; a lower setting is blocked on load with a clear error message.

2. Fibonacci Anchor — which part of the previous candle defines the 0% and 100% boundaries of the Fibonacci grid:

   • Wick to Wick — from the candle's High (100%) down to its Low (0%). Wicks included.

   • Body to Body — from the top of the body (100%) down to the bottom (0%). Wicks ignored. Useful when the previous candle had unusually long wicks, since it compresses the levels into the meaningful part of the candle.

3. Fibonacci Level — the retracement level price should reach before a crossover is accepted:

   Level    | Meaning

   23.6%    | Shallowest retracement

   38.2%    | Moderate

   50.0%    | Mid-candle

   61.8%    | Deep

   78.6%    | Very deep

   100.0%   | Full retracement to the opposite extreme

   107.0%   | Sweep past the opposite extreme — the stop-hunt zone

The 107% level exists for a specific reason. Many traders place stop losses just below the low of a bullish candle, or just above the high of a bearish candle. Price frequently spikes through those levels to trigger stops, then reverses and resumes the trend. If you want to catch that move, 107% is the level to select.

4. Price Reference Level — the second boundary of the acceptance zone, taken from the previous candle's actual OHLC: Open, High, Low, or Close.

The Fib level and the Reference level together define a zone. The crossover must occur with price inside that zone.

HOW THE ZONE IS BUILT

Two prices are extracted from the previous candle:

• Fib Price — the value of your chosen Fibonacci level across the anchor.

• Reference Price — the value of your chosen OHLC level.

The zone is the range between those two prices, sorted so it is always well-defined.

• Buy signal: the previous HTF candle must be bullish. Zone runs between the Fib level and the Reference level.

• Sell signal: the previous HTF candle must be bearish. Same construction, mirrored.

If the previous candle's direction does not match the signal, the signal is rejected before the zone is even computed.

WORKED EXAMPLE

Look at reference image A7. The bearish previous candle is the large red body on the left. The Fibonacci grid is drawn from the 100% line at the top (high) to the 0% line at the bottom (low). The blue X marks the exact crossover point — it fired inside the 23.6% level of the previous bearish candle. Because the previous candle was bearish and the signal was a sell that occurred inside the retracement zone, the filter accepted it. The green X below shows where a subsequent signal would have been rejected — price had already broken past the 23.6% level, so the retracement was spent.

THE RULE THAT SURPRISES PEOPLE — DIPS ARE FORGIVEN

This is the single most important thing to understand about this filter. The check is evaluated only at the moment of the crossover. Past price action within the current period does not disqualify a signal.

SUGGESTED HTF PAIRINGS

If you are new to this one-candle method, here is a practical starting point:

• H4 reference candle → pair with M1 for the crossover signals.

• D1 reference candle → pair with M15 for the crossover signals.

• W1 reference candle → pair with H4 for the crossover signals.

These pairings are a starting point, not a rule. You are free to combine any higher-timeframe reference candle with any lower timeframe for the crossover signals — whatever best fits the market you trade and the pace at which you like to work.

Image A4 — Screenshot showing the indicator's MTF signals filter.

13. TRADING PERIOD RULES

Restrict signals to specific hours — London session, the first hour of the New York open, and so on.

• Trigger Alerts Only During Specific Periods — master on/off.

• Avoid Major Holidays — suppresses signals during New Year, Christmas, US Independence Day, and US Thanksgiving.

• Trading Period By Asset Category — pick the category that matches your instrument:

   Crypto / Binary — including a weekends-only option.

   Forex — New York, London, Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Sydney sessions, plus three overlap periods (Sydney–Tokyo, Tokyo–London, London–New York).

   Stocks / Indices — NYSE, LSE, FWB, and TSE hours, plus first-hour-after-open filters.

   Commodities — CME, ICE, London Gold, and New York Gold sessions.

   Custom — your own day-by-day schedule with a timezone offset, start hour, and end hour per day.

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HOW TO COMBINE THE LAYERS

The real strength of this indicator is not any single filter. It is that all the filters are independent and composable. You decide how strict you want to be.

A simple configuration looks like this:

• Multiple MAs in the validation stack (say four or five).

• On Close timing.

• Everything else off.

You will get more signals, filtered primarily by the MA structure.

A strict configuration looks like this:

• Six or more MAs in the validation stack.

• One Candle After Close timing.

• Trend filter on H4 using 3, 5, or 7 MAs.

• RSI filter on M15 with default thresholds.

• Previous candle filter on H4 at the 50% level.

• Trading periods restricted to London and New York.

You will get very few signals. Every one of them will have passed every single layer you turned on.

The indicator does not force a particular trading style on you. It gives you the building blocks and lets you assemble the combination that matches the way you actually trade.

Image A5 — Screenshot showing the indicator's signal filter by trading period rules.

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UPGRADE TO THE PAID VERSION — $30

The paid version — Multiple Timeframe Filtered Moving Average Crossover Indicator — runs the exact same signal engine you are using here, plus three upgrades that remove the free version's constraints:

1. FULL MA FREEDOM

Every moving average in the system — the Early crossover pair, the Full crossover pair, all eleven Early validation slots, all eleven Full validation slots, all eleven filter MAs — is now configured with three separate inputs:

• Period — any integer from 1 upward. No preset list.

• Shift — any integer, including non-zero. Useful if you want your MAs to lead or lag by one or two bars.

• Method + Applied Price — a 35-option dropdown.

The 35 options are built from five MA methods × seven applied prices:

   Simple, Exponential, Smoothed, Linear Weighted, and Volume Weighted,

   applied to Close, Open, High, Low, Median (HL/2), Typical (HLC/3), or Weighted Close (HLCC/4).

That is 5 × 7 = 35 combinations per MA slot. You can now do things like:

• EMA 17 applied to Typical Price — smoother through chop, more responsive to wicks that matter.

• SMMA 21 applied to Median Price — a quiet, smoothed filter that ignores extreme wick noise.

• LWMA 9 applied to Weighted Close — faster reaction to the final bars of the candle.

• VWMA 20 applied to Close — a volume-aware trend anchor. VWMA is new and unique to the paid version.

• Any period, any shift, in any combination. If your edge is EMA 12 vs EMA 26 vs SMMA 55, you no longer approximate it with the nearest preset.

2. NATIVE MA PLOTTING ON THE CHART

The paid version plots every MA that drives the logic directly on the chart:

• Early Fast and Slow crossover MAs (4 plots — Early and Full, Fast and Slow).

• Full Fast and Slow crossover MAs.

• All 22 validation MAs (11 Early + 11 Full).

That is 26 MAs total. For each one you get:

• Its own Color input.

• Its own Width input (1–5).

• A visibility toggle in the MA Visibility group.

Four group-level toggles control which categories draw:

• Show Early Crossover MAs.

• Show Full Crossover MAs.

• Show Early Validation MAs.

• Show Full Validation MAs.

You get the best of both worlds: a chart with every MA visible for visual verification and stack inspection, or a chart kept clean by turning the toggles off — all without ever removing the indicator or re-adding it.

3. INDEPENDENT EARLY AND FULL SIGNAL TIMING

In the free version, one Signal Timing input drives both the Early and Full subsystems. The paid version replaces that with two independent inputs:

• Early Signal Timing Mode.

• Full Signal Timing Mode.

This lets you build a shape the free version cannot produce. For example, Early on Intrabar and Full on On Close gives you the classic "fast alert, slow confirm" pattern — Early alerts fire live on the forming candle as a heads-up, while Full confirmation waits until the crossover candle has closed.

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ALSO AVAILABLE ON TRADINGVIEW

The same signal engine is available on TradingView as an indicator:

Multi-Timeframe Filtered MA Crossover Indicator

The TradingView version includes:

• The full 35-option MA dropdown (including VWMA via ta.vwma()).

• MA visibility toggles and per-MA color and width inputs for all 26 MAs.

• Independent Early and Full signal timing modes.

• All the filters — validation stack, MTF trend, RSI, MACD, Previous Candle Price, Trading Periods.

Two platform-specific notes:

• On TradingView, alerts are configured through TradingView's own alert dialog. The indicator supplies the alert text; the channel selection (popup, sound, email, mobile push, webhook) is handled by the platform.

• The TradingView version does not require MetaTrader to be running, and works on any symbol TradingView provides data for.

If you prefer to work in TradingView for charting and alerts but trade through MetaTrader, the two versions can run side by side and will fire on the same bars.

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ALSO AVAILABLE AS A FULLY AUTOMATED EA

If you would like the exact same signal engine delivered as a fully automated trading system, there is an Expert Advisor:

Multiple Timeframe Filtered Moving Average Crossover EA

What the EA adds on top of the paid indicator:

• Automated trade execution on any symbol your broker supports.

• Three-tier take profit system — TP1 at a fixed risk-reward ratio, TP2 and TP3 trailed by their own MAs, each with an optional fixed RR target.

• TP1-gated trailing — TP2 and TP3 only begin trailing once TP1 has closed in profit.

• PCC/CCC TP1 override — TP1 can exit at the previous HTF candle's close/high/low or at the current HTF candle's close.

• Risk management — loss-based trading halt, daily drawdown limit, recovery-aware position sizing.

• The same VWMA-enabled MA library, validation stack, and MTF filters as the paid indicator.

• The EA also draws the same signal arrows on the chart, so you can watch the system work in real time.

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Please feel free to join this Telegram group where users can share their strategies and settings that work for them using this indicator --> t.me/MTFMACS