---
type: Trade Holistic Component
title: "MCI · Market Cycle Insights"
description: "Trade Holistic's flagship 4H market-cycle condition indicator, based on Wyckoff's four stages plus indecision stages (8 conditions), used as a backtest filter and to start and stop bots."
resource: "https://tradeholistic.io"
tags: [trade holistic]
status: draft
generated: { by: grok-bot/alpha-explainer-2.0, at: "2026-10-16T02:45:00Z" }
kb_id: th-th-mci
topics: [trade holistic platform]
note: "Written from the founder's description; needs human review before it is treated as canonical."
---

# Overview

A condition indicator optimized for the 4H chart, with 8 conditions:

| Condition | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 1MD | Mark down |
| 2AR/2RR | Indecision after a mark down (its own condition) |
| 2AR | Accumulation range |
| 2RR | Redistribution range |
| 3MU | Mark up |
| 4DR/4RR | Indecision after a mark up (its own condition) |
| 4RR | Reaccumulation range |
| 4DR | Distribution range |

It works as a backtesting filter that triggers bot start/stop in a [bot portfolio](/trade-holistic/bot-portfolio.md), and as a standalone visualization.

# Referenced by

- [HMM + RL regime allocation explainer](/explainers/hmm-rl-regime-allocation.md)
- [hmmlearn deep-dive](/deep-dives/gh-hmmlearn-hmmlearn.md)