These settings are all related to the operation of RuleTrader’s AutoTrend Price Channel system:

• Backfill period: this is the period over which a share’s AutoTrend price channels are backfilled,  before the trading rules are evaluated against these shares. This usually happens when the share is first selected for a strategy’s trading list (see How A Trading Specification Is Executed for further information on backfilling)
• Trend growth thresholds: thresholds used to determine when a channel is rising, flat, or falling
• Trend swing thresholds: thresholds used to determine if a channel is swinging up or down, or is unchanged
• Trend stability thresholds: threshold used to differentiate between an Established price channel and an Evolving channel (see Channel Life-Cycle)
• Named band edge offsets: these settings allow you to specify the location of the boundaries between each named band, as a channel standard deviation offset from either the channel’s trend-line or confidence lines (see Channel Banding)