How to Use the Hull Suite Indicator
To use the Hull Suite on TradingView, add InSilico's script, choose the Hull variation and length, and read the band color: green when the Hull line is above its own value two bars earlier, red when it is below. Treat it as a trend filter rather than an entry signal, because it flips often in sideways markets.
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Hull Suite is a free community script on TradingView, published by InSilico, that puts three versions of the Hull moving average in one indicator and colors the result by its own direction. The color is the part people trade, so it is worth knowing exactly what decides it.
Before you start
A TradingView chart with the Hull Suite script by InSilico added. Open Indicators, search “Hull Suite” and pick the one by InSilico from the community scripts. Several copies and strategy versions exist under similar names, and they do not all share the same inputs.
A higher timeframe chart to check the larger trend. The band on a 15-minute chart says nothing about the daily trend, and a green band against a red higher timeframe is a different trade.
A stop rule taken from price structure, since the band carries none. Decide in advance where the idea is wrong, usually beyond the last swing, because the script gives you a color, not a price level.
What the color actually measures
The script calculates one Hull line and compares it with itself two bars back. The current value is plotted as MHULL and the value from two bars earlier as SHULL, the band is the space between them, and both turn green when the current value is higher and red when it is lower.
So the color is a slope test on a smoothed line. It is not price crossing the average, and it is not two different averages crossing. A narrow band means the line is nearly flat; a wide one means it is moving fast.
The Hull formula underneath is the standard one: a weighted average of twice the half-length weighted average minus the full-length one, smoothed over the square root of the length. The Hull moving average page covers why that turns sooner than a simple average.
The steps
1. Add the Hull Suite by InSilico to your chart
From the Indicators search, add the community script named Hull Suite by InSilico. Star it if you plan to use it on more than one chart layout.
2. Set the Hull Variation to HMA, EHMA or THMA
HMA is the standard Hull. EHMA swaps the weighted averages for exponential ones, and the script’s author describes it as slower than HMA by default. THMA is a triple weighted construction run on half the length, so each one turns at a different bar.
3. Set Length and the length multiplier together
The default length is 55, and the input’s own label suggests 55 for swing entries and 180 to 200 for floating support and resistance. The multiplier scales it: in the video on this page the length goes to 60 and the multiplier to 3, which behaves like a length of 180.
4. Leave Show as a Band on and set the line thickness
The band is what makes the color readable at a glance. The video raises line thickness from 1 to 15 so the band reads as one heavy stripe; any thickness works as long as candles stay visible.
5. Turn on candle coloring if you want bars painted by trend
“Color candles based on Hull’s Trend” paints every bar green or red with the band, which shows trend changes even on a zoomed-out chart. It changes nothing in the calculation.
6. Read the higher timeframe color first
Check the daily or 4-hour band before the chart you trade. Take long setups only while the higher band is green and short setups only while it is red.
7. Use the lower timeframe color change for timing, with a structure stop
When the lower band turns in the direction of the higher one, look for an entry near a support or resistance level, and place the stop beyond the swing that formed the turn.
8. Test each market separately before trusting the settings
A length that suits a slow index can flip constantly on a fast coin. Scroll back over 100 bars on each instrument and count how often the color changed during sideways stretches.
How to tell it worked
You can name the variation and the effective length (length times multiplier) you are running, for example HMA at 180.
Every trade taken in the last 20 had the higher timeframe band in the same direction. If any did not, the filter was ignored.
Every trade had a stop set from a swing, written before the entry, in 20 of 20 cases.
And you have a flip count for each market: how many color changes in the last 100 bars, so you know which instruments the settings suit.
Why the variation matters less than the length
Every variation is still an average of past closes. Switching the variation changes the formula at the same length. Changing the length changes how many bars go into it, which moves every turn.
The multiplier is the easy way to make that mistake. A length of 55 with a multiplier of 3 is a 165-bar calculation, and a band that slow on a 5-minute chart will stay one color through moves you wanted it to catch.
So change one input at a time and write it down. If the variation and the length both change on the same day, you cannot tell which one made the band behave differently.
The original data
This channel’s Hull Suite tutorial, the video embedded here, has 70,789 views and 2,653 hours of watch time in the YouTube analytics export of 11 Aug 2026. It ranks 39th of the channel’s 498 videos, and its click-through rate is 14.68% on 332,136 impressions, against a median of 6.25% across all 498.
Coverage elsewhere is small. In this site’s search study of 24,971 unique videos, 3 titles name the Hull Suite, and this channel’s tutorial is the most viewed of them at 71,015 views when the study was collected. The other two have 31,436 and 8,640, and one of those two puts a win-rate figure in its title.
A wider search for Hull or HMA as a word finds 106 titles, at a median of 2,848 views across 82 channels. Plenty of videos cover the formula; very few show the script’s settings one by one.
When it fails
It fails in sideways markets, and it fails repeatedly rather than once. A flat Hull line wobbles above and below its own value from two bars earlier, so the band switches color every few bars. Each switch looks like a new trend, each trade taken on it pays the spread and commission, and none of them has a trend underneath.
The fix is not a new setting. It is recognizing the range from market structure and standing aside.
The second failure is lateness. The color changes after the Hull line turns, and the line turns after price does, so the first part of every move is already gone when the band flips.
A third is matching lengths across markets. The same length can be steady on one instrument and constant noise on another, which is the point of step 8.
A fourth is reading the color as an exit price. It has none, so a stop from structure is the only defined exit.
And a fifth is trusting one screenshot. A historical chart where the band caught a big move says nothing about how many small flips came before it.
Related
Hull moving average explains the formula the script is built on and what its speed costs. Trading range is the condition where the band flips most. And Supertrend is another two-color trend tool, built from volatility instead of an average.
Don’t use the same settings you’re using for Bitcoin on Nvidia or Apple versus Ethereum versus a Dogecoin. You have to kind of see which one is best, because some stocks and assets move a lot more volatility than others and some just like to go a little bit more sideways.
— Michael Whitman, from this video
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