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Entropy Regime Cloud
Admin's Choice NewFreeTrend cloud coloured by return entropy: ordered vs random markets
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- Language
- QuaScript
- Engine
- Native C++, incremental on live ticks
- Rendering
- WebGPU + Canvas
- Placement
- Price overlay
- Settings
- 5
- Plots
- 7
- Lines of code
- 44
- Source
- presets/analysis/gpu/entropy_regime_cloud.qs
About
A trend cloud whose colour and width come from the Shannon entropy of recent returns. Ordered markets (low entropy: returns cluster, moves repeat) glow bright and the cloud tightens around the adaptive mean; random markets (entropy near its maximum) fade to a wide, dark haze. Reading: trade continuation when the cloud is bright and sloping, stand aside or fade edges when it is dark and wide. The edge colours change bar by bar, drawn as edge-anchored gradients. Signals: "Order" when entropy drops below the order level with a sloping mean (trend start), "Disorder" when it returns to noise. Method: Shannon (1948) entropy of the return histogram.
What it draws
Price overlay · counted from the engine's plot table and the script's draw calls
Series
- Line3 visible · 4 helperCloud topAdaptive meanCloud bottom
- Band fills (render.band calls)2
Signal marks
Drawings and chart effects
- Dashboard tables1 created
How it runs
From source to the live chart, for this script
- 1Compile
The QuaScript compiler checks the 44-line script (36 lines of code) and lowers it for the native C++ engine. Compile errors point at the exact line and column.
- 2Place
The header sets
overlay = true, so everything is drawn on the price chart, on the same scale as the candles. - 3Compute
The script runs once per bar, oldest to newest. 1
persistvariable keeps state (objects, counters) across bars. - 4Stay live
On the terminal the script keeps one live engine session: a tick rolls the forming bar back to its checkpoint and re-executes only that bar, and new bars are appended, so history is never rerun while the market moves. The live result is identical to a full run.
- 5Render
The results are handed to the chart: series on WebGPU, drawings on the Canvas 2D QuaScript layer.
- 6Tune
5 settings in 3 groups appear in the chart's settings dialog. Changing one reruns the engine with the new value.
Rendering
Hybrid: this script draws on 2 surfaces at once
The browser's modern GPU API. The chart uploads every line, band and mark of the script as GPU buffers and draws them in one pass, so dense heatmaps and dozens of series stay smooth while you pan and zoom. Without WebGPU support the chart's GPU layer falls back to WebGL 2, then Canvas 2D.
- • 7 plotted series
- • 2 band fill calls
- • 3 signal mark types
Chosen by render = webgpu in the header.
GPU drawing through WebGL 2, available in every current browser. Used for chart-native profiles and for series that ask for it with backend = "webgl". Fast for large numbers of bars and wide fills.
The browser's 2D drawing API. Text-heavy and object-style output (dashboard tables, zones, tags, segments), candle colors and backgrounds are painted by the QuaScript layer, a Canvas 2D surface over the chart. Series use Canvas when the script's header does not ask for a GPU.
- • 1 dashboard tables (QuaScript layer)
Alerts
1 alert rule declared with alert.rule
Return entropy dropped below the order level
Settings
5 settings, grouped as in the chart's settings dialog
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entropy window | Integer | 60 | 20 – 1000 | entropy_window |
| Histogram bins | Integer | 10 | 4 – 40 | histogram_bins |
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean length | Integer | 34 | 5 – 400 | mean_length |
| Cloud width (ATR) | Number | 1.6 | 0.3 – 6, step 0.1 | cloud_width_atr |
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order level | Number | 0.84 | 0.3 – 0.98, step 0.01 | order_level |
Script
packages/quascript/presets/analysis/gpu/entropy_regime_cloud.qs
Header
analysis "Entropy Regime Cloud" {
overlay = true
render = webgpu
short_title = ERC
}- Total lines
- 44
- Code lines
- 36
- Comment lines
- 7
- Helper functions
- 0
- Loops
- 0
- Persistent variables
- 1
- Higher-interval feeds
- 0
- Engine plots
- 7
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