Volume weighted by where in the candle the close landed.
Closes near the high with volume push it up, closes near the low push it down. Above zero is read as buying pressure.
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 money flow(20) is above 0.
Volume-based, so the caveats of crypto volume apply: in our own tests volume conditions added nothing.
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