Closing Strength (CLV) API
Where each market closes inside its daily range, and what that says about who is in control into the bell, computed live from Yahoo Finance daily OHLC — no key, nothing stored. The close is the most important price of the day: a market that runs up but closes back near its low was sold into all afternoon (distribution), while one that closes on its highs has buyers in firm control (accumulation), even if the headline change is the same. The Close Location Value (CLV) captures this on a -1 to +1 scale — +1 is a close exactly on the high, -1 exactly on the low, 0 the middle of the range. This API turns it into a conviction gauge. For each instrument it returns today's CLV, the average CLV over the window (a positive average means closes persistently in the upper half — accumulation; negative means distribution), the recent 20-day CLV as the current pressure reading, the share of days that closed in the upper third versus the lower third of their range, and a plain-language read. The asset endpoint returns one instrument's full closing-strength profile; the screener endpoint ranks the cross-asset universe from strongest accumulation to heaviest distribution, so you can see where buyers are quietly winning the close. This is the close-location / accumulation-distribution-pressure cut, price-only and no volume — distinct from the candlestick-pattern API (named shapes on the last bar), the volume-indicator tools and the price feeds. It is who won the day.
api.oanor.com/closestrength-api
