The Core table is intended to summarise three different aspects of the chart:
Trend
Price location
Historical extension
It displays the current price together with several configurable moving averages.
The standard configuration includes short-, medium- and longer-term references such as:
EMA 8
SMA 20
SMA 50
SMA 100
SMA 150
The exact moving-average types and lengths can be configured.
Moving-average direction
Each moving-average row indicates whether that average is rising or falling.
A rising moving average suggests that its underlying trend is advancing. A falling moving average indicates deterioration over that particular horizon.
The additional acceleration marker compares the current slope with the average slope of that moving average. This helps distinguish between:
a moving average that is merely rising;
and one whose upward slope is stronger than its own recent norm.
This is descriptive momentum information, not a prediction.
Price versus moving average
The next column shows the percentage distance between the current price and each moving average.
For example:
+4% means price is 4% above that moving average.
-3% means price is 3% below it.
This provides immediate context about where price is located relative to short-, medium- and long-term trend references.
A positive distance can indicate trend strength, but a large positive distance may also indicate extension. A negative distance can indicate a pullback, deterioration or a broken trend depending on which average is involved and what the other indicators show.
Historical Percent Rank
The Percent Rank column puts the current price-to-moving-average distance into historical context.
It answers:
How large is the current distance compared with the instrument’s own historical observations?
For example:
A Percent Rank of 80% means the current distance is greater than approximately 80% of the historical observations in the selected lookback.
A Percent Rank of 20% means the current distance is relatively low compared with its own history.
A value near 95–100% indicates an unusually large positive distance.
A very low value indicates an unusually weak or negative location relative to the average.
This is important because a 10% distance from a moving average may be normal for one volatile stock but extreme for another.
The percentile therefore provides instrument-specific context rather than applying one universal extension threshold.
It should not be interpreted as:
a high percentile automatically means “sell”;
or a low percentile automatically means “buy.”
Instead, it helps identify whether the current location is ordinary, elevated or historically unusual.
Price-extension boundaries
The chart also displays upper and lower price-extension boundaries around a selected reference moving average.
These are based on:
the historical distribution of price distance from the chosen moving average;
its historical median;
and a configurable standard-deviation range.
The purpose is to show whether price is trading within a relatively normal historical range or outside it.
A move beyond the upper boundary may indicate that price is stretched. A move toward the lower boundary may indicate a deeper reset or deterioration. The meaning still depends on trend, volatility, RS and structure.
ATR percentage
The table displays ATR as a percentage of price.
This gives a straightforward measure of the instrument’s typical price movement relative to its current price and makes different stocks more comparable.
It is separate from the more detailed Volatility Regime indicator, which adds historical percentile, direction and acceleration.
Relative Strength status
The table also summarises:
whether RS is above its moving-average baseline;
whether the RS baseline itself is rising.
This provides a quick leadership check without requiring the user to inspect the full RS panel first.
High-volume days
Relative-volume events are identified by comparing current volume with a recent reference level.
The table counts high-volume up days and high-volume down days over the selected lookback.
This helps answer:
Has unusually strong participation recently occurred more often on advancing or declining days?
It is supporting evidence rather than a standalone accumulation or distribution model.
Recent highs
The table shows how many bars have passed since the latest high over the selected lookback period, normally three months.
The indicator can also identify three-month, six-month, 52-week and all-time highs.
A recent high can support trend strength, but it does not automatically mean the stock is at an attractive entry location.
Risk-reference zone
The Core chart includes a configurable visual zone below the current price, commonly set between approximately 5% and 10%.
This does not calculate a recommended stop loss. It is a visual planning aid that helps the trader assess whether a plausible invalidation level and position risk could fit within a chosen range.
The values are not treated as a mechanical score where more green cells automatically mean “buy.”
For example:
Constructive alignment
Price above rising moving averages
RS above a rising RS baseline
Price extension within a normal historical range
Supportive volume
Volatility controlled or constructively expanding
This may justify closer attention, subject to price structure and a clear invalidation level.
Healthy but extended
Strong rising trend
Strong RS
Very high price-to-MA Percent Rank
Price outside its normal extension boundary
Elevated or expanding volatility
The stock may be healthy, but the entry quality may be poor. The appropriate framework conclusion may therefore be Wait, not Engage.
Trend deterioration
Price below key moving averages
Several averages turning down
Weakening RS
High-volume down days
Expanding or extreme volatility
This is materially different from a normal pullback and may support an Avoid or Reduce classification.
This distinction is central to TradeSentinel:
Trend quality and trade eligibility are related, but they are not the same thing.