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The Smart moving average
One line blended from three higher-timeframe averages, that changes colour the moment price closes on the other side of it.
A blend, then a smooth
The Smart moving average isn’t a single average — it’s a blend. DarkWave takes volume-weighted averages from three of the four higher timeframes, averages those together, then runs a second volume-weighted smoothing pass over the result. The blend is what makes it steadier than any one average: a spike on a single timeframe gets outvoted by the other two before it can whip the line around.
The line is plotted as a stepped diamond track, and its colour is the whole point: it turns bullish when price closes at or above it and bearish when price closes below it. So the colour isn’t a forecast — it’s a running verdict on which side of the blended average the market is actually closing. A cross is the moment that verdict changes.
The colour is a verdict, not a prediction: which side of the blend price is closing on, right now.
Treat a colour flip the way you’d treat any change of state — as information that the balance shifted, not as a signal to act on by itself. It reads best alongside the levels: a flip that happens right at a higher-timeframe support or resistance line is a very different event from one that happens in open space between them.