# Long-horizon Calendar Cycles Long-horizon Calendar Cycles is an indicator on [Vela](https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart), our next-generation charting platform, written in Pine Script®. Long-horizon Calendar Cycles buckets completed calendar years by presidential term, decennial digit, the Benner schedule or a custom fixed-year cycle, plotting the current bucket's historical mean return as a tilt line with every year's actual outcome dotted around it. A cycle-map table with small-sample warnings keeps multi-year seasonality honest. - Indicator in the LuxAlgo Library, by LuxAlgo, published Feb 11, 2026. - Access: free. - Concepts: [Long-horizon Calendar Cycles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/long-horizon-calendar-cycles/) (primary) - Open on Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart?pineScriptCodeId=nxffh5pjbx99euntuhmyyobr - Page: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/long-horizon-calendar-cycles/ **Long-horizon Calendar Cycles** puts [long-horizon calendar cycles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/long-horizon-calendar-cycles/) on a statistical footing. Completed calendar years are bucketed by presidential-term position, the year's final digit, the Benner schedule's high/low/panic classes, or a custom fixed-year count, and the pane plots the current bucket's historical mean return as a stepped tilt line with each finished year's actual return dotted beside it. The dot scatter around the tilt shows how loose these tendencies run. ## How to Trade the Long-horizon Calendar Cycles? - **Positive tilt at a year boundary**: the year just begun belongs to a bucket with a positive historical mean - a calendar tilt to weigh alongside trend and breadth, never a standalone trigger. - **Benner year lines**: in Benner Schedule mode, dotted verticals mark scheduled high, low and panic years - watch windows, not dates to trade blind. - **Dimmed cycle-map rows**: buckets with fewer completed years than the warning threshold rest on a handful of observations - background context only. Every statistic is walk-forward - the year in progress is never included - and the footer states where now sits, with the year-to-date return beside it. ## Long-horizon Calendar Cycles Settings - **Cycle Model** (default Presidential (4-Year)): the cycle years are bucketed by. - **Custom Cycle Length (years)** (default 9) and **Custom Anchor Year** (default 2009): the Custom Fixed-Year mode; ignored by the other models. - **Sample From Year** (default 1800): raise it to test whether a tendency survives in the modern sample. - **Benner Year Lines On Chart** (default on) and **Project Ahead (years)** (default 12): Benner Schedule mode only. - **Show Cycle Map** (default on) with **Small-Sample Warning (n below)** (default 10): per-bucket n, mean, median and win rate. - **Yearly Return Dots** and **Current Position Label** (both default on): style toggles. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How does this differ from seasonality studies? Tools like [Asset Class Seasonality](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/asset-class-seasonality/) average the calendar's rhythm within a year; this build works one level up, comparing whole years by their place in multi-year cycles. The layers stack - each is a small tilt, not a trigger. ### Is a Benner panic year a sell signal? No. The schedule was published generations ago and lands near some real turns while missing others; the build treats scheduled years as attention windows, fires an alert when one begins, and leaves confirmation to price structure. ### Why does it require a daily or higher timeframe? The unit of observation is the completed calendar year, so intraday charts have nothing valid to aggregate - the pane asks for a Daily, Weekly or Monthly chart. ## Related indicators - [Momentum Cycle Sentry](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/momentum-cycle-sentry/) (Dominant-cycle Detection): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/momentum-cycle-sentry.md - [Astro Cycles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/astro-cycles/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/astro-cycles.md - [Fixed Time Cycles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/fixed-time-cycles/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/fixed-time-cycles.md - [Asia Sweep Reversals](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/asia-sweep-reversals/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/asia-sweep-reversals.md - [8AM 1H Range & Breaks](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/8am-1h-range-breaks/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/8am-1h-range-breaks.md - [8am Road Map Zone](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/8am-road-map-zone/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/8am-road-map-zone.md - [Ultimate Opening Range Breakout](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/ultimate-opening-range-breakout/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/ultimate-opening-range-breakout.md - [Sessions](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/sessions/) (Time, Sessions & Seasonality): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/sessions.md --- Source: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/long-horizon-calendar-cycles/ (LuxAlgo Library). Free to use with attribution: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/license/