The Maverick Suite is a collection of precision trading tools built on Center of Gravity (COG) principles and Dow Theory. Designed for trend continuation trading - no reversals, no gambling.

What's in the Suite

Key Principles

TradingView Indicators

MAV Oscillator and Slingshot Pro are TradingView indicators.

MAV RADAR (Discord)

MAV RADAR runs on a dedicated server and is accessed through Discord bot commands. No local installation required.

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Recommended Setup

Basic Workflow

The MAV Oscillator is the core of the Maverick Suite. Built on Ehlers' Center of Gravity (COG) principles with optimized smoothing for clean structure analysis.

Why MAV?

The Three Modes

MAV-T is optimized for structure mapping. Use it to draw channels, connect pivots, and identify the overall trend architecture.

When to Use

• Drawing breakout lines on the oscillator
• Tracking channel structure
• Connecting pivot sequences (HH-HL or LL-LH)
• LTF structure mapping

Characteristics

• Smoother: Less reactive than MAV-E
• Cleaner pivots: Fewer false signals
• Less divergence: Focus is on structure, not divergence signals
• Better for drawing: Lines and channels are cleaner

MAV-E is the "scope on a rifle" - optimized for precise entry targeting. More reactive, more pivots, more visibility of divergences.

When to Use

• Targeting precise entries
• Spotting divergences
• Fine-tuning entry timing on any timeframe
• When you need more detail than MAV-T provides

Characteristics

• More reactive: Faster response to price changes
• More pivots: Catches smaller swings
• More divergence: Better for spotting divergence signals
• Stretches price action: Makes small moves more visible

MAV-HTF provides macro directional bias. It's a fast, reactive oscillator - use it on Daily+ timeframes only to determine whether you should be looking for longs or shorts.

When to Use

• Determining overall directional bias
• Daily, Weekly, Monthly charts
• Filtering out counter-trend trades
• First step in top-down analysis

Reading MAV-HTF

MAV uses fixed, optimized settings. Do not modify these values - they have been carefully tuned for optimal performance.

Optimized Settings

MAV indicators use proprietary, optimized settings that have been carefully tuned for optimal performance. These settings are built into the indicators - no configuration required.

Pivot Detection

Pivots are automatically detected when the MAV slope changes direction. The indicator marks these pivots for easy structure analysis.

Pivots are the building blocks of structure. Learn to classify them correctly and the trend becomes obvious.

Pivot Types

Trend Identification

Slingshot Pro is your multi-timeframe confluence tool. It shows when LTF and HTF are aligned through candle fills - your final check before pulling the trigger.

What It Does

• Combines MAV-E and MAV-HTF signals into one visual
• Colors candle fills based on alignment
• Shows LTF, Current TF, and HTF estimates
• Filters noise - no fill means mixed signals

When to Use

• After establishing HTF bias with MAV-HTF
• After identifying structure with MAV-T
• Before entering any trade
• As your final confluence confirmation

Candle fill colors tell you instantly whether timeframes are aligned.

Fill Logic

Slingshot Pro shows three timeframe estimates. When all three align, you have maximum confluence.

The Three Estimates

Confluence Levels

Stack these with Slingshot Pro signals for highest probability:

Slingshot Pro uses the same core MAV parameters. The candle fill logic is automatic based on slope alignment.

Default Configuration

Slingshot Pro inherits the MAV settings. No additional configuration is needed for the candle fill logic - it automatically detects MAV-E and MAV-HTF slope alignment.

Visual Options

• Fill Opacity: Adjust transparency of candle fills
• Show Estimates: Toggle visibility of LTF/CTF/HTF labels
• Color Scheme: Customize bullish/bearish colors

MAV RADAR is an automated scanner hosted on a dedicated server, accessed through Discord bot commands. It applies the MAV methodology to thousands of symbols across multiple asset classes.

MAV-MATRIX dashboard at maverick-radar.org — all timeframes (1h / 4h / 1d / 1w) and oscillator combos in one persistent view, with live confluence scoring.

Capabilities

Output Types

• CSV: Full results for analysis
• HTML: Formatted interactive table
• Discord: Alerts with top candidates
• Charts: Auto-generated MAV charts for top 5 results

MAV Mode (Default)

MAV Oscillator pivot detection. This is the recommended mode for clean structure analysis.

Uses proprietary MAV oscillator settings for pivot detection. Clean structure analysis with optimized parameters.

PRICE Mode

Pivot detection directly on raw price data. More sensitive, more signals. Use for aggressive scanning.

Detects pivots directly on raw price data. More sensitive with more signals - good for aggressive scanning.

Trade Directions

Multi-timeframe scan that analyzes LTF + HTF together, showing you the state matrix across both timeframes for true confluence.

Command Format

!mtfscan <oscillator> <ltf> <htf> <direction> <assets> <volume>

Examples

!mtfscan MAV 4h 1d LONG crypto 100M
!mtfscan BHXL 4h 1wk LONG stocks,etfs
!mtfscan BHP2 1d 1wk SHORT crypto 50M

Valid Timeframe Combos

LTF must be lower than HTF:

• 4h + 1d - Intraday entries with daily bias
• 4h + 1wk - Intraday entries with weekly bias
• 1d + 1wk - Daily entries with weekly bias

Signal Strength

MTF Scan ranks signals from strongest to weakest:

The ultimate 3-timeframe scan. LTF for entries, MTF for structure, and Bias TF for directional filter. Only shows results where the bias slope confirms direction.

Command Format

!trinityscan <oscillator> <ltf> <mtf> <bias> <direction> <assets> <volume>

Examples

!trinityscan MAV 4h 1d 1wk LONG stocks,etfs
!trinityscan BHXL 4h 1d 1wk LONG crypto
!trinityscan BHP2 1h 4h 1d SHORT stocks,crypto 50M

Valid Timeframe Combos

Must be in order: LTF < MTF < Bias

• 1h + 4h + 1d - Scalp entries, intraday structure, daily bias
• 1h + 4h + 1wk - Scalp entries, intraday structure, weekly bias
• 4h + 1d + 1wk - Swing entries, daily structure, weekly bias

The Trinity Framework

Charts Output

Trinity Scan generates 9 charts for the top 3 results - each result gets a chart on all 3 timeframes for complete visual confirmation.

Each symbol receives a score from 0-100 based on multiple confluence factors.

Scoring Factors

Behavior Stages

RADAR classifies each symbol into a behavior stage:

MAV RADAR is accessed entirely through Discord. Join the server and use bot commands to run scans and receive results.

Available Commands

A volume-based POC indicator built on Steidlmayer's Market Profile. Naked POCs act as price magnets — institutions defend the levels where they accumulated.

POC Ghost Levels Pro on BTCUSDT Daily — Naked Monthly POCs (👻), Ongoing POC (⟳), Value Area, and current-period Volume Profile.

What is Point of Control?

Point of Control (POC) is the price level with the highest traded volume within a period. The concept was developed by J. Peter Steidlmayer at the Chicago Board of Trade (1981–1983) as part of Market Profile theory.

POC reveals where institutional traders accumulated their largest positions. These levels act as strong support/resistance because institutions defend them — a POC is where the market said "this is fair price" and traded the most contracts.

Each marker on the chart has a specific meaning. Reading them correctly is half the edge.

The Ghost Effect

Extended POC lines represent market memory. Even after a period closes, the POC remains on the chart as a horizontal level. Price gravitates toward these levels in the future — they represent the "fair price" where most volume traded, and the market keeps coming back to test them.

All markets are auction processes seeking to maximize volume. POCs reveal where the auction settled.

Auction Market Theory

Volume is the truest indicator of the market's ability to facilitate trade. Markets that fail to facilitate trade at a given price will move to levels that better facilitate it. The POC is, by definition, the price where the market facilitated the most trade — therefore it represents the fairest price the market discovered during that period.

Why Institutions Defend POCs

Big institutions cannot enter positions instantly — a $500M position takes hours or days to fill without moving the market. They accumulate over time, and the POC reveals where those positions formed. When price returns to that level, those institutions defend their average entry — creating reliable bounces.

What makes the Pro+ version more accurate than free POC scripts and even TradingView's native Volume Profile.

Volume Distribution Math

Most POC indicators distribute each bar's volume evenly across the bins it touches (equal-split). This is mathematically inconsistent — a tight bar and a wide bar covering the same number of bins get the same per-bin weight, even though they represent vastly different price ranges.

What's in Pro+

When an Ongoing POC enters approach distance of a Naked POC from a higher timeframe, treat it as a high-probability test zone.

Stacking with Maverick Suite

• Ghost Levels identifies the level (POC test zone)
• MAV-HTF tells you the bias (long-only or short-only)
• MAV-E times the entry (pivot + divergence)
• Slingshot Pro confirms the alignment (candle fill)

A companion indicator that will read up to 3 Ghost Levels Pro+ instances and flag clusters where Monthly + Weekly + Daily POCs stack together.

Planned Setup

The theory behind POC and Market Profile. These are the source texts.

• Steidlmayer, J.P. & Hawkins, S.B. (2003). Steidlmayer on Markets: Trading with Market Profile (2nd ed.). Wiley.
• Dalton, J.F., Jones, E.T., & Dalton, R.B. (2012). Mind Over Markets: Power Trading with Market Generated Information. Wiley.
• Dalton, J.F., Dalton, R.B., & Jones, E.T. (2007). Markets in Profile: Profiting from the Auction Process. Wiley.
• Jardine, M. (2012). Just a Trade a Day: Simple Ways to Profit from Predictable Market Moves. Wiley Trading.

The foundational framework for understanding trends. MAV is built on these timeless principles.

John Ehlers' COG indicator is the mathematical foundation of MAV. It finds the balance point of price with minimal lag.

Why COG?

"The primary advantage of the MAV Oscillator is precisely its lack of upper and lower limits, which allows for a more accurate and realistic analysis of market structures."

Multi-timeframe analysis is how professionals trade. The slower TF filters noise, the faster TF provides entries.

The Hierarchy

Not all pivots are equal. Context determines whether a pivot is a high-probability entry or noise.

Random Pivot vs Pullback Entry

"Technically a Pullback Long and a Bullish Pivot are the same thing - both are 'a Higher Low being detected'. The difference is the point in the sequence where they take place."

What Counts as "Breaking Something"

• Static Median: The green/red centerline
• Dynamic Median: The moving median line
• Donchian Channels: Hidden background levels
• SR / Fibs / VWAP: Key confluence levels