ADX / DMI
Welles Wilder · 1978
What it measures
Not an indicator of direction, but one that measures **whether there is a trend at all**. A low reading means price is moving up and down without going anywhere.
How TickTurn reads it
Below 20, ADX says there is no trend worth the name, so the vote is neutral no matter what. Only above 20 do we follow whichever is larger, +DI or −DI.
That judgement is made on closed daily bars only; a bar still in progress is left out, because including it makes the same symbol change its answer within the day. On the result screen this indicator holds one vote out of 21.
It is not an answer on its own
If one indicator could call tomorrow, everyone would use only that one. TickTurn asks 21 of them together not because any single one is trusted, but to show plainly where they disagree. Even the combined score, measured against the right baseline, came out only a shade better than chance — the scoring is written up in how we tested.