The Relative Strength Index indicator is popular, for a reason, but in this article, I backtested the default settings of the RSI indicator, and made it better. Investments and trading is a wonderful world where large companies and small investors can participate from the comfort of their homes. You only need a device with internet…
Connors RSI including backtest Often referred to as CRSI, the Connors RSI indicator is a momentum-based oscillator that tries to improve on the original 14-period RSI indicator developed by Welles Wilder. Unlike the original 14-period RSI indicator, the CRSI uses 2 periods as its lookback input parameter and combines the momentum measurement of RSI with…
Python is the most popular programming language to backtest trading strategies. However, most people are afraid of it or don’t know where to start, while others think it’s difficult to learn. Today we will show you how to backtest an RSI trading strategy with a few lines of code, step by step, for beginners. As…
High Probability ETF Trading, published in 2009 and written by Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez, contains some interesting strategies. They are all mean revertive and tested on the most popular ETFs at the time of writing, which was the end of 2008, in the middle of the GFC. Do the strategies covered in the book…
Let’s see how to build a trading strategy based on the popular RSI indicator using TradingView (step by step) in the crypto market, from building the layout to implementing its native Pine Script language. Our RSI-based trading strategy will seek reversals in the overbought and oversold zones. We will use DOT on a m5 timeframe…
There are different ways of performing technical analysis. While some focus on price action, others make use of indicators. Both moving average convergence divergence (MACD) and the relative strength index (RSI) rank among the most popular indicators used in technical analysis and trading. But what is the MACD and RSI strategy? The MACD and RSI…
This article examines how the RSI indicator works and how to develop an RSI trading strategy. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) was developed by Welles Wilder and first introduced in a magazine called Commodities (now Futures) in June 1978. Wilder published a book in the same year called New Concepts In Technical Trading Systems (he…
The RSI is one of the most popular indicators used in technical analysis. However, most people use it as a mean reversion indicator rather than a momentum indicator. Today, we show you an RSI range-momentum trading strategy. The RSI range-momentum trading strategy uses the RSI as a momentum indicator for identifying uptrends in stocks and…
In the world of trading, the Relative Strength Indicator (RSI) stands as a timeless beacon of analysis. Invented by Welles Wilder in the 1970s, it has become a cornerstone of trading strategies. Today, we unveil a fresh perspective on RSI with the Triple RSI Trading Strategy. This innovative approach harnesses the power of RSI in…
RSI is mostly used as a reversal or contrarian indicator. In most stock markets, this has worked really well over the last 30 years. But what if we flip it and use it as a momentum indicator instead to make a RSI momentum strategy? Can we make money that way? We can use RSI as…
