Wave Rider - or about pullback trading

This is what I get.

forexjoe85 wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2026 12:11 am This is what I get.

Hi forexjoe85,

It's loading no problemo for me.
Please take a look at this example of a portion of my input file. You will have to ensure that the location and the name of the Wave Rider version you are trying to use is defined correctly. It is a bit confusing, I should have been more explicit in the naming of the input variable.

The path where Wave Rider resides can be anywhere you choose within the Indicators folder, it doesn't have to mimic what I defined in my example.

ricosuaveiii wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2026 1:54 am Hi forexjoe85,

It's loading no problemo for me.

WaveRider Dashboard.jpg

Please take a look at this example of a portion of my input file. You will have to ensure that the location and the name of the Wave Rider version you are trying to use is defined correctly. It is a bit confusing, I should have been more explicit in the naming of the input variable.

The path where Wave Rider resides can be anywhere you choose within the Indicators folder, it doesn't have to mimic what I defined in my example.

Indicator Path.jpg

WaveRider Dashboard Input File.jpg

whatever I try it just doesnt work.

btw the moment I try to change the path to the file I get this. The dashboard stays on my screen in same N/A like before but it seems like its "removed somehow". There is some kind of issue and looks like it works only for you.

forexjoe85 wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2026 10:49 pm btw the moment I try to change the path to the file I get this. The dashboard stays on my screen in same N/A like before but it seems like its "removed somehow". There is some kind of issue and looks like it works only for you.

I just recompiled the dashboard indicator and loaded it from multiple locations within the Indicators folder with the latest version of Wave Rider. I am still unable to replicate your issue. Unfortunately, I have no idea why you are facing this problem. Maybe someone else who has tried it and is facing a similar challenge could provide some guidance/feedback.

ricosuaveiii wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 12:19 am I just recompiled the dashboard indicator and loaded it from multiple locations within the Indicators folder with the latest version of Wave Rider. I am still unable to replicate your issue. Unfortunately, I have no idea why you are facing this problem. Maybe someone else who has tried it and is facing a similar challenge could provide some guidance/feedback.

Wave Rider Dashboard.jpg

yeah it doesnt work...

ricosuaveiii wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 12:19 am I just recompiled the dashboard indicator and loaded it from multiple locations within the Indicators folder with the latest version of Wave Rider. I am still unable to replicate your issue. Unfortunately, I have no idea why you are facing this problem. Maybe someone else who has tried it and is facing a similar challenge could provide some guidance/feedback.

Wave Rider Dashboard.jpg

I'm having the same problem; the dashboard doesn't seem to be displaying anything... Please see my screenshot, thank you.

DAVID99 wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 2:24 am I'm having the same problem; the dashboard doesn't seem to be displaying anything... Please see my screenshot, thank you.

Thank you DAVID99 and forexjoe85.

I don't want to inundate this thread with messages regarding my simple dashboard and take away from its main purpose which is the Wave Rider indicator.

Could one of you guys please PM me and share a copy of your compiled file? I would like to test it on my system.

If we do identify a root cause and a solution, it can then be shared here.

ricosuaveiii wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 4:38 am Thank you DAVID99 and forexjoe85.

I don't want to inundate this thread with messages regarding my simple dashboard and take away from its main purpose which is the Wave Rider indicator.

Could one of you guys please PM me and share a copy of your compiled file? I would like to test it on my system.

If we do identify a root cause and a solution, it can then be shared here.

The problem is perfect, my reason is that the indicator is not placed in the folder.Thank you for your dashboard.

WAVE RIDER 6.6

Added a new Choppy Market state that detects flat, directionless price action and visually flags it, while filtering out lower-quality Pullback entries during those conditions.

How it works

The indicator now measures two things on every closed bar:

Baseline slope, normalized by ATR — how many "ATR units" the baseline has moved over the last few bars. A small value means the baseline is basically flat.
ATR ratio ceiling — current ATR against its own recent average. This exists purely as a safety check: without it, a sudden volatility spike could shrink the normalized slope and get misread as "flat" right when the market is actually breaking out hard. Above this ceiling, the bar is never called choppy, no matter how flat the slope looks.

Both conditions have to hold together for a bar to be marked choppy — flat slope and volatility within a normal range.

What changes visually and behaviorally

Baseline and bars (if bar coloring is enabled) turn gray during choppy conditions.
Pullback Long/Short entries are blocked while the market is choppy — this is where the filter has the most value, since pullback setups tend to be the weakest in directionless chop.
Trend Long/Short signals (baseline flips) are never blocked. A flip is a structural report that the baseline changed direction, not a discretionary entry — filtering it would just delay the information rather than improve it.
Close/exit signals are never blocked too, on principle: exits are risk management, not opportunity selection, so they always fire regardless of market state.

Other changes

The Pullback Slope Gate's Threshold mode has been removed (Off / Sign-only remain). It was answering essentially the same question as the new Choppy filter — "is the slope big enough?" — just on a different lookback, which made the two hard to tune independently without one masking the other. Sign-only mode is kept because it checks something the Choppy filter doesn't: the immediate direction of the slope, which can catch a baseline that's already turning while the (sticky) trend state hasn't flipped yet.
Fixed a dashboard refresh edge case affecting the Pullback gate status label.

New inputs

InpEnableChoppyFilter — on/off
ChoppySlopeLookback (default 10) — bars used to measure baseline slope
ChoppySlopeThreshold (default 0.3) — flatness threshold, in ATR units
ShowChoppyOnDashboard — toggles the "Market" row on the dashboard

As always, feedback on how this behaves across different symbols/timeframes is welcome — the flatness threshold is the main knob if you find it firing too often or too rarely for your instrument.