Screening for Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Relative Strength Index

The Relative Strength Index is calculated using the Wilder moving average formula.

Signals

  • Bull Signal
    When the RSI crosses from below to above the oversold level.
  • Bear signal
    When the RSI crosses from above to below the overbought level.

Oversold levels may be set at either 20% or 30% and overbought levels at 70% or 80%.

screen for rsi

To Set the RSI Crossover:

  1. Select the Relative Strength Index filter
  2. Then select a Crossover filter
  3. Choose either the Bull signal or Bear signal
  4. Select the number of days within which the crossover must have occurred or excluded
  5. Click on the Add button to add the filter.
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Author: Colin Twiggs is a former investment banker with almost 40 years of experience in financial markets. He co-founded Incredible Charts and writes the popular Trading Diary and Patient Investor newsletters.

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Focusing on interest rates and financial market liquidity as primary drivers of the economic cycle, he warned of the 2008/2009 and 2020 bear markets well ahead of actual events.

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