MA Trend

📊 Indicator Overview: The MA Trend Indicator is a free and popular Forex tool for MT4 that helps traders identify the trend direction and strength in currency markets.

🔍 How It Works:

Plots two moving averages: one fast (short-term) and one slow (long-term)
Trend Signals:
Fast MA above Slow MA → Uptrend
Fast MA below Slow MA → Downtrend

Displays a histogram representing the difference between the two MAs to show trend strength visually

Histogram above zero → Trend considered up
Histogram below zero → Trend considered down
Larger histogram bars → Stronger trend

✅ Trading Benefits:

Helps traders identify and follow market trends efficiently
Makes trend strength easy to interpret with histogram visualization
Works across any timeframe, suitable for intraday or swing trading

💡 Overall Utility: A simple yet powerful MT4 indicator for trend-following strategies, enabling traders to make more profitable trading decisions by clearly identifying trend direction and strength.

Input Settings & Controls

Moving Average Periods

Period_MA_1 → Period for the MA on the 1-minute chart.
Period_MA_5 → Period for the MA on the 5-minute chart.
Period_MA_15 → Period for the MA on the 15-minute chart.
Period_MA_30 → Period for the MA on the 30-minute chart.
Period_MA_1H → Period for the MA on the 1-hour chart.
Period_MA_4H → Period for the MA on the 4-hour chart.
Period_MA_1D → Period for the MA on the daily chart.
Period_MA_1W → Period for the MA on the weekly chart.
Period_MA_MN → Period for the MA on the monthly chart.

Moving Average Settings

ma_shift → Horizontal shift of the moving average on the chart.
ma_method → Type of moving average (e.g., SMA, EMA, LWMA, SMMA).
applied_price → Price used for MA calculation (e.g., Close, Open, High, Low, Median, Typical, Weighted).

Display / Position

X → Horizontal position or offset for display.
size → Size or thickness of the MA line.

Devices Supported

Device Type	Operating System	Compatibility with TradingView
💻 Windows Laptop/Desktop	Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11	✅ Fully supported via app
🍏 MacBook / iMac	macOS 10.15+	✅ Fully supported via app
📱 Android / Mobile	Android OS	❌ Not supported

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