Is the market trending or going nowhere? Scale 0 to 100.
Above about 60 the market is choppy (the path is long, the distance short); below about 40 it is trending.
It says nothing about direction. It is a filter for whether your kind of strategy fits the market right now.
Worked out by the same code the builder uses, on stored daily candles. Move a setting and the line moves with it. This is what happened, not what will happen.
Gate: Choppiness index(14) is below 50, so you only trade when there is a trend.
It looks back. A quiet market can start trending the very next candle.
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