✦ By the time a MACD cross prints, the bar that made it has already closed. This solves the price it will happen at first.

The exact close that crosses the signal line is worked out in closed form from the prior bar alone — fixed for the whole bar, so it cannot repaint — and shown as a rail on your price chart, a header chip and a panel target.

◆ What makes the panel itself different
▸ MACD-V scale by default — real fixed zones on every instrument, not a self-rescaling axis
▸ A six-state ribbon: RISK, RALLYING, RETRACING, RANGING, REBOUNDING, REVERSING
▸ Four early layers — histogram slope-flip, pre-cross alarm, zero-line cross, ranging suppression
▸ Divergence with a PENDING → CONFIRMED / BROKEN / EXPIRED lifecycle, not a static mark

The panel’s Y-axis locks, so a chart drag can never push the reading off its own scale.

Closed-bar decisions throughout — it does not repaint.

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