Chaikin money flow calculator
Buying or selling pressure.
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Chaikin oscillator calculator
Whether buying or selling volume is gaining speed, from the accumulation / distribution line.
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The Chaikin oscillator
The Chaikin oscillator is +707, above zero and falling.
- The volume
- Above zero, the short average of the accumulation line is over the long one: volume has lately come more on closes near the highs.
- How it is read
- Chaikin read the zero cross as a shift between buying and selling pressure, and a move against the price as a warning that the move lacks volume. Many traders take the signal only in the direction of the trend.
- Read it with care
- The size of the number depends on the volume you type, so compare it only with itself. It ignores gaps between bars, and broker tick volume is only a stand-in for real volume.
The close, the accumulation / distribution line and the Chaikin oscillator (3-bar minus 10-bar exponential average) on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Close price | A/D line | Oscillator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,313.50 | -7,294 | +176 |
| 6 ago | 2,308.10 | -9,456 | -690 |
| 5 ago | 2,301.90 | -10,754 | -1,394 |
| 4 ago | 2,316.30 | -6,857 | -316 |
| 3 ago | 2,329.80 | -2,714 | +1,472 |
| 2 ago | 2,338.50 | +306 | +3,031 |
| 1 ago | 2,332.10 | -2,334 | +2,553 |
| Last | 2,319.40 | -6,790 | +707 |
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The speed of the money flow
Marc Chaikin's accumulation / distribution line adds up each bar's volume, weighted by where the bar closed in its range: near the high counts as buying, near the low as selling. His oscillator is the MACD of that line: the 3-bar exponential average minus the 10-bar one, so it shows whether accumulation is speeding up or slowing down.
See the level of buying pressure with the Chaikin money flow calculator, compare with on-balance volume, and size the trade with the position size calculator.
Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; an indicator describes the past bars, not the next one.
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