ATR volatility
Welles Wilder · 1978
What it measures
How wide an average day's range is. It says nothing about direction; it is there to judge **whether this is a moment when signals are worth trusting**.
How TickTurn reads it
It casts a vote only when the current range is more than 1.15× the usual (the 50-day average). When it is, the last five trading days decide the side: up counts bullish, down counts bearish. At ordinary volatility it stays neutral.
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.