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RSI Indicator Strategy

RSI or RSI is one of the most popular indicator used in gold trading. It's an oscillator trading which oscillates between 0 -100. This a market trend following indicator. It indicates the strength of the market trend, values above 50 indicate a bullish trend while values below 50 indicate bearish trend.

RSI Indicator Measures Momentum of a Trend.

The center-line for the RSI is 50 indicator, crossover of the center-line indicate shifts from bullish to bearish trend and vice versa.

Above 50, the buyers have greater momentum than the sellers & price on the trading chart will keep going up as long as this RSI indicator stays above 50.

Below 50, the sellers have greater momentum than the buyers & price on the trading chart will keep going downwards as long as RSI indicator stays below 50.

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In the example above, when the technical indicator is below 50, the price kept moving in a downwards trend. The price continues to move down as long as RSI indicator was below 50. When the RSI indicator moved above 50 it showed that the momentum had changed from sell to buy and that the downward trend had ended.

When the RSI indicator moved to above 50 the price started to move upward and the trend changed from bearish to bullish. The chart price continued to move upwards and the RSI indicator remained above 50 afterwards.

From the example above, when the market trend was bullish sometimes the RSI would turn downward but it would not go below 50, this shows that these temporary moves are just retracements because during all these time the price trend was generally moves upwards. As long as RSI indicator doesn't move to below 50 the current trend remains intact. This is the reason the 50 center line mark is used to demarcate the signal between bullish and bearish trading signals.

The RSI technical indicator uses 14 day period as default period, this is the period recommended by J Welles Wilders when he introduced it. Other oftenly used periods used by traders are the 9 & 25 day moving average.

RSI technical indicator period used depends on the chart time frame you are using to trade, if you are using day xauusd chart timeframe the 14 period will represent 14 days, while if you use 1 hour chart timeframe the 14 period will represent 14 hours. For our example we shall use 14 day moving average, but for your trading you can substitute the day period with the chart time frame you are gold trading with.

To Calculate RSI Indicator:

  • The number of days that a market is up compared to the number of days that the market is down in a given time period.
  • The numerator in the basic formula is an average of all the gold sessions that finished with an upward price change.
  • The denominator is an average of all the down gold sessions closes for that period.
  • The average for the down days are calculated as absolute numbers.
  • The Initial RSI is then turned in to an oscillator trading indicator.

Sometimes very large up or down movement in price in a single gold trading session price period may skew the calculation of the RSI average and produce a false signal - whipsaw signal - in the form of a spike.

RSI Center Line: The center-line for this trading indicator is 50. A value above 50 implies that the price trend is in a bullish phase as average gains are greater than average losses. Values below 50 indicate a bearish phase in the market prices are generally closing lower than where they opened.

Overbought and Oversold Levels: Wilder set the RSI overbought and over-sold levels at which the market moves are overextended at 70 & 30.

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