Overview
GustVane keeps the chart quiet. A single adaptive trend line (HalfTrend) holds its heading through chop and only flips when price truly breaks to the other side of its channel. We act on a flip only when the Volume Zone Oscillator — the “gust gauge” — leans the same way, so we skip hollow moves with no crowd behind them.
Signal at a glance
Execution flow
How it works
Trend vane · HalfTrend
An adaptive baseline that ignores minor noise and flips only on a genuine structural break. A flip = a real change of heading.
Volume gust · VZO
The Volume Zone Oscillator splits volume into buying vs selling pressure. Above +4 backs an up-flip; below −4 backs a down-flip.
Parameters (defaults)
| Trend vane amplitude / deviation | 1 / 2 |
| Volume gust (VZO) period | 14 |
| VZO confirm gate | ± 4 |
| ATR period · activity floor | 14 · 0.6×50-bar avg |
| Stop / Target | 1.5×ATR / 1.8×Stop (RR≈1.8) |
| Max windows per day | 10 |
| Timeframe | H1 (M30–H4 also fine) |
Participation windows
Upside window
Vane flips UP (down→up) AND VZO > +4 AND ATR ≥ floor.
Downside window
Vane flips DOWN (up→down) AND VZO < −4 AND ATR ≥ floor.
Risk management
Protective exit at 1.5×ATR; harvest target at 1.8× the protective distance. Fixed 1% account exposure per window, one position at a time, up to 10 windows a day with a next-day reset. A built-in watchdog alerts if no window opens for 3 days.
For study and sharing only. Not investment advice and no promise of gains. Markets carry drawdown risk — test on a demo and size small. · jybj.org