The Internal Bar Strength indicator (IBS) has worked remarkably well for over two decades. We can only guess why, but the stock market has been highly mean-reverting during this period, and this has, of course, given the IBS a nice tailwind. IBS is simply an indicator where you buy on weakness and sell on strength,…
We have previously published an article on using RSI on SPY (relative strength index). The RSI has proven to be a valuable indicator/tool for mean reversion in the main stock indices. Today we present an RSI trading strategy. In this article, we look at how the RSI performs on QQQ – an RSI mean reversion…
Below is a simple and easy trading strategy to implement in SPY or the S&P 500: The classical mean reversion strategy in the S&P 500 In plain English the strategy reads like this: Trading Rules [/am4show] The equity curve since January 2000 looks like this (starting with 100 000 in equity and allocating 100% of…
The internal bar strength is defined as follows: (close-low)/(high-low). This indicator is very useful on mean revertive trading instruments, like for example XLP. This article contains a simple but quite effective trading strategy using the internal bar strength indicator: The internal bar strength trading strategy (This article was first published in January 2018. Thus, 5…
