About Auto Trendlines
Auto Trendlines draws trendlines through real swing highs and lows and keeps count: how many times each line has been touched, whether it has broken, and whether price came back to retest it.
How the lines are drawn
- Swings come from ZigZag (depth 24 by default, 3 to 50). A line joins two neighboring swing lows (support) or swing highs (resistance) at least 5 bars apart.
- Rising support and falling resistance are the main lines. Falling support and rising resistance can also be drawn, thin and without signals or alerts.
- Touch: a candle reaches the band of ±0.25 ATR(14) around the line. The touch ends when the whole candle moves 0.5 ATR beyond the band. A touch is a bounce when the candle does not close beyond the band.
- Break: the close is beyond the band and closes stay beyond the line for 5 bars (3, 5 or 10 in the settings). A close back on the other side within those bars cancels it.
- Retest: after a break, price moves away on the broken side, comes back to the line and closes on the broken side, within 20 bars of the break.
- One line per move: a pair that breaks between its two points is not drawn, and a line lying on an earlier one is treated as the same line. Lines end 500 bars after their second point.
On the chart
- Current lines are solid in the support or resistance color, with the touch count at the second point.
- Signals: a hollow arrow for a bounce, a thick arrow for a break and a star for a retest, each with its name.
- Optional: the ZigZag swings used for the lines, with the size of each swing in pips and bars.
Panel
- Lines: Current, All (older lines too, dotted) or Off. ZigZag: on or off. From: Wicks or Bodies. Touches: 2+, 3+ or 4+.
- Click + to open the panel and see the bounce rate on this chart: of the lines that reached 2, 3 or 4+ touches, the share that held at the next touch.
- Drag the header to move the panel.
Alerts
Touch: the moment price reaches a line, from the third touch by default. Break and retest: at bar close. Popup, sound, push notification and email. Each event alerts once.
Notes
- Lines, counts and signals change only when a bar closes. The newest swing can still move, so it is not used as a line point.
- Lines can differ between brokers' price feeds.
- A charting tool, not financial advice.
Common questions
Which platforms and brokers do your indicators work with?
MetaTrader indicators come with both the MT4 and the MT5 version in one download. TradingView scripts run on TradingView. Each product page lists its platforms.
The MetaTrader versions run in any broker's standard MT4 or MT5 terminal, on any symbol and timeframe. There is no broker lock-in.
Do your indicators repaint?
It depends on the tool, and each product page says how its marks behave. Arrows and marks that are checked at the close of the bar stay where they are once printed.
Tools that find swing highs and lows with ZigZag can only confirm a swing after price has moved away from it, so the newest swing can still move until then. Lines and oscillators update on the bar that is still forming, like any indicator, and are final when that bar closes.
What exactly do I get, and in what format?
MetaTrader products: you download a single .zip containing the compiled builds — .ex4 for MT4 and .ex5 for MT5.
TradingView products run on your TradingView account — there is nothing to download.
Paid products include updates for as long as they are offered. Free tools stay free.
How is it delivered?
Free tools download straight from this site with no signup. Free TradingView scripts are added from their TradingView page.
Paid MetaTrader tools: the download is ready right after checkout through our payment provider, Whop.
Is it a one-time purchase or a subscription?
Each product page says what you get and for how long. Access sold for a fixed period ends when the period ends and does not renew unless the page clearly says it is a subscription. Prices are in USD. See our Terms.
Can I get a refund?
Paid products are digital and delivered immediately, so they are not refundable once delivered — except when a product does not work as described and we cannot fix it. Email us within 14 days of purchase and we will refund it.
Rights your local consumer law gives you are not affected. Full details are in our Terms.
Do you offer support?
Yes, by email: questions about how a tool works, installation problems, bugs, payments and refunds. Each product page and this FAQ cover installation and use, so most answers are already there.
We do not offer one-to-one setup sessions or trading advice.