Warmup & Alignment

Two operational caveats affect how closely LuxAlgo signals match a TradingView chart of the same instrument.

Warmup

The Wilder-smoothed ATR needs history to converge to TradingView values. Request a generous DATA_LOOKBACK:

roughly 150 × TARGET_TF_MINUTES   (as 1M candles)

Signals are suppressed until the series is warmed.

Bucket alignment

Buckets align to UTC midnight so 3-minute bars fall on :00 / :03 / :06 like a chart.

If your feed’s session boundary differs, set BUCKET_OFFSET_MINUTES and verify against a known TradingView chart.

UTC midnight
│
├─ :00  bucket 0
├─ :03  bucket 1
├─ :06  bucket 2
└─ … (TARGET_TF_MINUTES = 3)

Chart vs MT5 divergence

Signals are computed from mt5-trader’s candles, so they will not line up exactly with a TradingView chart of the same instrument — different feed, different OHLC, different indicator values. Expect divergence when eyeballing the two side by side.

PIP_SIZE calibration on TradingView is still valid (unit conversion), but price levels differ between feeds — another reason hard targets travel as distances. See Hard Targets.