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An EMA 8 / 21 ribbon on your chart and a higher timeframe.
Multi-Timeframe EMA Ribbon (K2) answers one question: which way, and when. Its signal is simple: the fast EMA crosses the slow one, confirmed when the candle closes. Everything else helps you judge that cross: an EMA 200 that greys out once it goes flat, a higher-timeframe ribbon, the A2 pullback and a six-timeframe grid.
Opens the indicator on TradingView.
Each part, what it shows and why it is there.
An EMA is a moving average that leans on recent prices. K2 draws two of them, EMA 8 and EMA 21, as a ribbon. The band between them takes the bull colour while the fast line is above the slow one, and the bear colour while it is below. A badge marks the candle where they cross, once that candle has closed. A cross that undoes itself before the close never prints.
The EMA 200 shows which side of the long-term trend price is on. It takes the bull colour while price is above it and the bear colour while price is below, and its badge says the same. When the line goes flat it turns grey, and the badge adds the word flat. An optional mid-term EMA can sit in between, in its own colour so it never reads like the EMA 200.
A second ribbon, taken from a higher timeframe, is drawn over your chart. You stay on a fast chart and still see the slower trend. Its badges name their timeframe, and its crosses are marked with triangles rather than labels, so a higher-timeframe cross never looks like one from your own chart. A higher-timeframe EMA 200 can be added too, coloured the same way.
The A2 setup is a pullback pattern: it joins a trend on a candle that breaks the EMA 21 against it. K2 paints that candle and marks it with a triangle when the higher timeframe already sits on the same side of its own EMA 21. Confluence simply means the two timeframes agree, so a painted candle is an A2 pullback the higher timeframe agrees with.
A small table reads six timeframes at once. Each row shows two arrows: which way the ribbon points, and which side of the EMA 200 price is on. A timeframe agrees when both arrows point the same way. When most rows agree, the timeframes are aligned, and you can see it without flipping through charts.
Eleven events in three groups, crosses, levels and multi-timeframe, all come through a single TradingView alert, and you pick the ones you want. Each message can carry context, such as what the ribbon is doing and which side of the EMA 200 price is on, so you know the situation before you open the chart.
The fast EMA crossing the slow one, EMA 8 over or under EMA 21, confirmed on the close. Everything else on the chart is context for judging that cross.
That higher-timeframe candle was still forming. A cross can print when your chart's candle closes, then undo when the higher-timeframe candle closes the other way. Past bars never show this.
It has gone flat. The badge adds the word flat as well.
Black Tide Wave System includes a K2 ribbon layer. This is K2 as its own indicator, with the higher-timeframe ribbon, the six-timeframe table and its own alerts. They are separate, so adding one changes nothing on the other.
Multi-Timeframe EMA Ribbon (K2) is an analysis tool, not investment advice. Charts and examples are illustrations.