ATR Regime Filter PRO

🟦1 INDICATOR OVERVIEW
ATR Regime Filter PRO is a professional market-regime and trade-permission indicator designed to help traders operate with greater discipline, consistency, and risk awareness. Instead of producing buy or sell signals, the indicator focuses on classifying volatility quality and directional structure to determine when trading conditions are acceptable and when participation should be avoided. Its objective is to reduce exposure to low-quality environments and support more structured decision-making across all market conditions.




🟦2 CORE DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
The indicator is built around the principle that not all market conditions are tradable. Before any execution logic is allowed to operate, volatility and directional quality must meet predefined criteria. ATR Regime Filter PRO enforces this discipline by acting as a gatekeeper above execution systems, helping traders avoid overtrading, emotional decisions, and participation during statistically unfavorable regimes.




🟦3 NORMALIZED ATR REGIME ENGINE
At the core of the indicator lies a normalized ATR model that evaluates current volatility relative to its own historical behavior. By comparing ATR to its moving average, the indicator produces a volatility ratio that is independent of price scale, instrument type, or timeframe. This normalization allows volatility regimes to be classified consistently across different markets and trading environments.


🟦4 VOLATILITY REGIME CLASSIFICATION
The ATR engine classifies the market into three volatility regimes. Suppressed volatility indicates compressed or range-bound conditions where execution quality is reduced. Healthy volatility represents structured price movement suitable for trading. Extreme volatility highlights unstable environments often associated with news events or liquidation phases. These regimes are descriptive and serve as contextual filters rather than signal generators.


🟦5 HIGHER-TIMEFRAME EMA SLOPE FILTER
Volatility alone does not guarantee a tradable environment. For this reason, ATR Regime Filter PRO integrates a higher-timeframe EMA slope filter to assess directional quality. A long-period EMA is calculated on a higher timeframe and evaluated for slope direction. This ensures that trading is considered only when meaningful directional pressure exists and is avoided when structure is flat or indecisive.

🟦6 MARKET PERMISSION ARCHITECTURE
A market is considered tradable only when volatility is classified as healthy and the higher-timeframe EMA slope is not flat. If either condition fails, the indicator explicitly signals that trading should be avoided. This final permission layer provides a clear, objective framework that execution systems and discretionary traders can rely on without ambiguity or interpretation.

🟦7 CONFIRMATION-FIRST LOGIC
ATR Regime Filter PRO does not attempt to predict market direction. All regime evaluations are confirmed using non-repainting logic and higher-timeframe data requested with lookahead disabled. By default, all conditions are finalized only after candle close, ensuring stability and reliability in both historical analysis and live market observation.

🟦8 VISUAL REGIME REPRESENTATION
The indicator uses a conservative visual language to represent market states. The ATR ratio line adapts its color to reflect volatility conditions, while optional background shading can be enabled to highlight specific regimes. By default, only non-tradable volatility conditions are emphasized, maintaining a calm and discipline-focused chart environment.

🟦9 DASHBOARD MATRIX
An on-chart matrix summarizes the current ATR regime, EMA slope state, and final market permission status. This dashboard is designed to eliminate uncertainty by clearly indicating whether trading systems should be active or disabled, helping traders maintain consistency and avoid subjective overrides.

🟦10 MARKET AND TIMEFRAME COMPATIBILITY
ATR Regime Filter PRO works on all TradingView-supported markets, including cryptocurrencies, forex, indices, commodities, and equities. Its normalized volatility model and higher-timeframe logic make it suitable for scalping, intraday trading, swing trading, and higher-timeframe structural analysis.

🟦11 INTENDED USE CASE
This indicator is designed as a foundational filter rather than a standalone trading system. It is best used as a mandatory permission layer above execution indicators, structure tools, or automated strategies. Its role is to improve trade quality by restricting execution to environments where volatility and structure are aligned.

🟦12 TARGET USER PROFILE
ATR Regime Filter PRO is intended for traders who value discipline over activity, structure over impulse, and consistency over prediction. It is particularly suited for traders building rule-based or systematic workflows who require an objective framework to determine when trading should and should not occur.

🟦13 DISCLAIMER
This indicator is provided for educational and analytical purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument. Trading involves substantial risk, including the potential loss of capital. The user assumes full responsibility for all trading decisions made using this indicator.