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RSI (relative strength index)

Recent gains against recent losses, on a scale from 0 to 100.

Above 50 the recent gains outweigh the losses. Traditionally above 70 is called overbought and below 30 oversold.

In practice RSI is more useful as a measure of strength (above 50 to 55) than as a signal to buy a dip.

In TradeXtool

Entry: RSI(14) is above 55.

Watch out

'Oversold' can stay oversold for a long time in a falling market. Buying every RSI below 30 is catching a falling knife. In our own tests on crypto it did clearly worse than doing nothing special.

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