How fast the candle range is expanding or shrinking.
A quick rise often comes with a top, a slow decline with a bottom. That was Chaikin's reading.
Worked out by the same code the builder uses, on stored daily candles. Move a setting and the line moves with it. This is what happened, not what will happen.
Gate: Chaikin volatility(10) is above 0.
It says nothing about direction, and the two readings above contradict each other often enough to be worth testing before believing.
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