RSI Commodities Trading Strategies

• RSI Overbought and Oversold Levels
• RSI Divergence Setups
• RSI Classic Bullish & Bearish Divergence
• RSI Hidden Bullish & Bearish Divergence
• Swing Failure Strategy
• RSI Commodities Trading Chart Patterns Commodity Trading Trend Lines
• RSI Summary

RSI Indicator Strategy

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

RSI Commodity Technical Indicator Measures Momentum of a Commodity Trading Trend.

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

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

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

RSI Commodities Indicator - How to Trade Commodity Trading with RSI Technical Indicator

In the commodities trading example above, when the commodity indicator is below 50, the commodity price kept moving in a downward trend. The commodity 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 commodity trend had ended.

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

From the commodities trading example above, when the commodity trend was bullish sometimes the RSI would turn downwards but it would not go below 50, this shows that these temporary moves are just retracements because during all these time the commodity price trend was generally upwards. As long as RSI indicator does not move to below 50 the current commodity trend remains intact. This is the reason the 50 center line mark is used to demarcate the signal between bullish and bearish commodity 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 commonly used periods used by Commodity traders are the 9 & 25 day moving average.

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

To Calculate RSI Commodity Indicator:

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

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

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

Overbought and Oversold Levels: Wilder set the RSI overbought and oversold levels at which the commodities trading market moves are overextended at 70 and 30.