Raw material for building custom filters.
The short answer
- What is the Hilbert phasor (HT Phasor Components)?
- Hilbert phasor: the real and imaginary components of the cycle.
- When is HT Phasor Components wrong?
- It is not read directly. See its current reading on the platform's symbols, at the latest daily close, in the "Reading now" table on this page. See its reading now →
Reading now
| Ticker | Value | Five sessions ago | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPY | 9.94 | −4.52 | Above 0 |
| QQQ | 13.66 | −4.30 | Above 0 |
| IWM | 2.61 | −4.40 | Above 0 |
| DIA | 3.81 | −4.00 | Above 0 |
A description of where the number sits against its thresholds. It is not an entry or exit signal.
Indicator limit
It is not read directly.
Read it with
Hilbert dominant cycle period: the cycle length is derived from it, so read it through that, not directly.
Answers: is it moving in a cycle?
What it actually does
The Hilbert phasor components output the two mathematical components from which everything else in the family is built: the component in step with price and the component shifted a quarter cycle. From these two come the angle, the cycle length and every higher measurement.
Why the raw components are shown
For the researcher who builds their own tools: the ready-made derivatives (cycle length, phase, wave) were cooked with particular smoothing choices that may not suit their purpose, and the two raw components allow alternative derivatives with different choices, much as Wilder's raw building blocks allow alternatives to the trend system.
Reading it directly
The ratio of the two components carries the phase information in raw form. Similar size with steady rotation means a clean cycle, while one component dominating all the time means a trend swallowing the cycle. It is a reading for specialists more than for daily use.
Hypothetical example
A researcher suspects that the smoothing in the ready-made derivatives lags on a fast asset. They read the two raw components and build a phase measure with lighter smoothing, a personal version that responds faster at the price of noise they accept knowingly.
Where it errs and why
Pure raw math: without signal-processing experience, reading it directly is gibberish. And every assumption of the family (a measurable cycle exists) applies to it.
Read it with
It is not read alone. The environment is classified with the trend strength indicator, confirmed with volume, and placed on the structural levels from the gamma map, since a signal at a dense wall carries more weight than one in open space.
Where to see it on the platform
The technical chart in the members area shows it in its full family on any symbol and timeframe you choose.
When it is worth going down to it
Going down to the raw components pays off in two cases: building a derivative that is not available off the shelf (a cycle regularity measure, say, or how the ratio of the two components oscillates over time), or diagnosing odd behavior in the higher derivatives by inspecting their inputs. Otherwise the ready-made derivatives are enough and save hours of building and testing.
