Regime answers a simple question at a longer timescale than most traders check: is price broadly trending up, down, sideways, or unclear? It's derived from daily and weekly trend direction plus price's position relative to its 200-day and 50-week moving averages — genuinely slow-moving evidence, on purpose.
A BULL or BEAR regime with high confidence means multiple longer-term signals agree. TRANSITION means the evidence is genuinely split — momentum may be turning while trend hasn't confirmed it yet. UNCERTAIN means there isn't enough agreement to call a direction at all.
Regime alone is never a trade signal — it's one of five evidence families the confluence engine combines. A counter-trend setup (e.g. a LONG proposed in a BEAR regime) requires a meaningfully higher confluence score before it's treated as a real candidate.