rsi divergence

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by happy trading, Jul 22, 2020.

  1. i have never researched divergences on the rsi. i recently noticed some big divergences.
    can someone that trades with then or studied them tell me how indicative the divergence is by itself.
    thanks
     
  2. easymon1

    easymon1

  3. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Just like anything else - sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
     
  4. easymon1

    easymon1

    oh... well that explains it. I guess we're done here then.
     
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  5. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    No carry on. Doing great googling stuff.
     
  6. easymon1

    easymon1

    anything turn up?
     
  7. easymon1

    easymon1

    RSI Failure Swing to start off the Waterfall, Today. good timing OP. rsi failure swing nq 5m.png
    Get 'em Jim! nice guitar, strings light as a feather.
     
  8. Bugsy

    Bugsy

    This. They are more reliable imo than most of the indicators people use, but you never know when the price action will actually follow suit, if it follows it at all. Sometimes when the price is moving up, while the RSI diverges, the price dips for a few bars making one think "here we go!!" Only to move a whole new leg up.
     
  9. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    RSI went down as price went down. Where is the divergence?
     
  10. easymon1

    easymon1

    look at some of the links on the Failure Swing Pattern. If it isn't clear from that, repost your observations...
    hell, that post doesn't work. hard to find good help ain't it? lol
    let's try this...
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    failure swing 7980 TLB gc 4m.png

    look at the price closes for the bars occuring around 8:08 and that 9:30ish hammer candle.
    Then look at the wrsi indicator troughs for those same candles.
    Then anchor a 'ray' line drawing tool on those points.
    Note the slope of the rays, the price ray slopes which way up or down? The wrsi ray slopes which way, up or down?
    Do the slopes agree or do they diverge?

    The horizontal line drawn on the highest peak between the anchor points for an upward diverging wrsi was breached where you see that elipse labeled 'Failure Swing'.

    For my two cents, at this point that a trader can not necessarily enter a trade, but start to look for indications that the price is set to follow through on the divergence signal, but for me it is not a trigger to enter, it is a heads-up.

    At that point, a trader could look at other timeframes, other indicators, price action, eg that hammer at Support down there at the bottom is one of my standard dealios, and it is screaming before the failure swing got a move on, be that as it may, we are here for the failswing so what the wrsi does after the elipse point there is a part of the indicator that my observation has yielded little but may lend food for thought to other traders, maybe not, ymmv.

    Post back with your thoughts.

    Here's one in the other direction...
    mind you, i'm not sold on these, but they are in my toolbox.

    failureSwing 7979 ub 1m.png

    maybe this link works...
    https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/...st-right-here-baby.335635/page-5#post-4930245

    https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/...st-right-here-baby.335635/page-6#post-4934346


     
    Last edited: Jul 24, 2020
    #10     Jul 24, 2020