Technical analysis strategy is a popular way of analyzing and forecasting price movements of financial assets such as currencies, stocks, commodities, bonds, and cryptocurrencies. While this strategy is as old as modern financial markets, not many know what it is and how it works. What is a technical analysis strategy? Technical analysis strategy is the…
Does the RSI Indicator work on crypto or Bitcoin? Bitcoin and other cryptos are attracting many traders and new investors, and the crypto daily volume is rising significantly, probably draining resources from the more traditional stock trading arena. The crypto market is a completely new market that is quite different from the traditional equity markets….
Weekly RSI vs daily RSI – what is best? This is a bit like comparing apples to oranges. It might be the same indicator, but RSI can deliver substantially different risk and reward payoffs in different time frames. Risk and reward are matters you can only answer yourself through backtesting. If you are a swing…
Cutler’s RSI including backtest The RSI is a very popular trading indicator among different security traders. But there are other variations of the RSI indicator. One of them is Cutler‘s RSI. You may be wondering what it is, and in this article, we provide you with a description and how it performs in backtests. Cutler’s…
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…
SPY is very mean revertive and RSI is a mean revertive indicator. Does this mean that RSI works on SPY? In this article, we test an RSI SPY trading strategy. It turns out that our hypothesis is correct: the RSI works well on SPY. Even better, we improve the strategy by adding one extra indicator….
I guess most traders have heard that “the trend is your friend“. Personally, I don’t do trend-following strategies, I go the opposite way: buy weakness and sell strength – mean reversion strategies. However, this depends on the instrument you trade and of course on the time frame in trading. In general, most currencies and commodities…
