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Chaikin Money Flow + Persistence

Marc Chaikin's Money Flow sums each bar's "money flow volume" (volume weighted by where the close sits inside the bar's range) over N bars and divides by total volume. It ranges from -1 to +1: closes near the highs on heavy volume push it up (accumulation), closes near the lows push it down (distribution). The persistence count shows how many bars in a row CMF has stayed on the same side of the de

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CMF above +0.05 for a while = sustained buying pressure; below -0.05 = selling pressure. Prices making new highs while CMF fades is a warning. Length 20 is Chaikin's default; the ±0.05 dead zone filters noise. Concept: Marc Chaikin, Chaikin Money Flow (1980s), from the accumulation / distribution line.
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