Expanded Cloud

Expanded Cloud turns Donchian Channel extremes into a trailing cloud that hugs price and reads as dynamic support and resistance. The cloud runs beneath price while the trend is up and overhead once it turns down, widens as moves strengthen, and trails behind retracements: one shape carrying direction, momentum, and stop placement at once, with a statistics dashboard attached to keep its signals honest.

How to Trade the Expanded Cloud?

• Cloud below price: uptrend in force. Hold longs and treat the cloud as trailing support.
• Cloud above price: downtrend. The cloud caps rallies as trailing resistance.
• Dots: mark the start of each new trend phase, the tool's clearest visual entry cue.
• Cloud contraction: when the cloud narrows while staying on the trend side of price, a retracement is often ending and continuation becomes the base case.

The dashboard adds context to every signal: PNL simulates the running profit or loss of the cloud's trend-following signals, EXPECT. blends win rate with average risk-reward into an expected value per trade, and AVG 1st TOUCH counts the average candles before price first tags the cloud in a new trend, a useful gauge of how much room a fresh signal typically gets.

Expanded Cloud Settings

• Length: bars used for trend identification. Shorter reacts to quick swings, longer filters noise to surface macro trends.
• Expansion %: how aggressively the cloud widens with price movement; high values (80-100%) hug price, low values (0-30%) stay slow and smooth through chop.
• Source: the price series the calculations run on (close, hl2, and so on).
• Show Dashboard / Location / Size: toggle the statistics panel and set its corner and scale.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from plain Donchian Channels?

Can the cloud manage my stop-loss?

How do I start using the Expanded Cloud?