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Whether the volume came with closes near the highs or near the lows: buying or selling pressure.
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The money flow
The 20-bar Chaikin money flow is -0.05. No clear pressure either way: the volume is split between closes high and low in the bars.
- The last bar
- It closed near the bottom of its range (close location -0.89) on 5,020 volume.
- How it is read
- The money flow runs from -1 to +1. Above 0, more volume came on bars that closed near their highs; below 0, near their lows. Many traders treat readings beyond +0.25 or -0.25 as strong.
- Read it with care
- It ignores gaps between bars, and tick volume from a broker is only a stand-in for real volume.
Close location and money flow on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Close price | Volume | Location | CMF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,313.50 | 2,810 | -0.83 | – |
| 6 ago | 2,308.10 | 3,150 | -0.69 | – |
| 5 ago | 2,301.90 | 4,380 | -0.30 | – |
| 4 ago | 2,316.30 | 5,260 | +0.74 | – |
| 3 ago | 2,329.80 | 6,110 | +0.68 | – |
| 2 ago | 2,338.50 | 4,730 | +0.64 | – |
| 1 ago | 2,332.10 | 3,890 | -0.68 | -0.03 |
| Last | 2,319.40 | 5,020 | -0.89 | -0.05 |
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Where in the bar the volume closed
Marc Chaikin's money flow looks at where each bar closed inside its own range: at the high counts +1, at the low -1, in the middle 0. It weights that by the bar's volume and averages it over the last 20 bars. A close near the high on big volume pulls the reading up; a close near the low on big volume pulls it down.
Unlike on-balance volume, it does not care whether the bar closed up or down on the bar before, only where it closed in its range. Weigh it with the money flow index, and size the trade with the position size calculator.
Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; volume describes the past bars, not the next one.
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