No. While you are trying to clear your pool of algae, you need to be keeping the pool at shock level until it clears. After the algae is gone, then you should begin running your maintenance chlorine levels which area again based on your CYA reading. For a CYA of 50, those maintenance levels would be between 3-6 ALL the time. If you dip below that, you risk another algae bloom.
Chlorine levels higher than 5ppm will not register on your 6-way kit which is an OTO chlorine test. That is why I recommended that you order a Taylor K2006 as it can measure levels way past 5ppm.
In the meantime, use the chart I linked for you up in post #2.

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