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Schaff Trend Cycle (STC)

MomentumOwn panel below

MACD run through a stochastic twice and rescaled to 0–100.

What it looks like

Drawn by running the real calculation over one sample series. Open a symbol and it is recalculated on that symbol's bars.

How to read it

It exists to make MACD's turns clearer, and 25/75 are the usual boundaries. A turn upward from the low end is read as the signal.

Where it misleads

After that many layers it is hard to trace what actually moved it.

Default settings

Fast length23
Slow length50
Cycle10

You can change these on the chart. These are the values it starts with.

In SQMATE

One tap to add

Open a symbol, tap the name in the indicator list and it is drawn straight away. You can stack several copies of the same indicator with different settings.

Recalculated per timeframe

Switch between minute, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly bars and it is recalculated on that timeframe. The maths runs over every bar loaded, so zooming never moves the line.

Use it as a search condition

Some indicators can also be used as an axis when searching for symbols — for example, keeping only symbols above a given reading, scanned every night.

Related indicators

Every indicator is an observation computed from past bars. It does not tell you future prices and it is not investment advice.

Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) — what it means and how to read it | SQMATE