# CHANGELOG

## SmartMA MT5 – The Self-Explaining Context MA

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### v1.0 – Initial Release (2025-07-20)

- First public release by Steve Rosenstock & Community.
- Adaptive Moving Average for MetaTrader 5 with:
    - Dynamic period (regime- and session-based)
    - Volume-weighted EMA calculation
    - Context awareness (sessions: Asia, London, NY)
    - News event detection (native MT5 economic calendar)
    - “Freeze” or smoothing during news
    - Ghost MA output (shows MA without news bars)
    - Dynamic ATR-based risk band overlay
    - Self-explaining chart comments (why MA behaves as it does)
    - Alerts for news/regime changes
    - Full open-source, modular, and ready for community extensions

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### [Next version – planned features]

- User profiles & plug-and-play presets (scalper, swing, news trader)
- Custom color/visual regime overlays
- More advanced regime-detection logic
- Multi-language support
- Extended documentation & code comments
- Additional alerts and user settings

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