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RSI Trading Strategy: The RSI 80-20 Rule
by TradingStrategyguides | Last updated May 9, 2019 | Published on Jan 12, 2018 | All Strategies,
Indicator Strategies, Most Popular | 139 comments

We have developed the 80-20 Trading Strategy that uses the RSI indicator. It involves price action analysis,
which will help you land great trade entries! This RSI trading strategy is as useful as the RSI 2 trading strategy,
which was developed by Larry Connor. However, this strategy strictly trades reversals that occur in the last 50
candles.

Read the entire article for all of the trading rules and trading tips. Understanding the rules will help you trade
this strategy for the highest level of success. We also have training for the best Gann Fan Trading Strategy.

RSI Trading Basics

The 80-20 RSI Trading Strategy is used as an RSI stock strategy, RSI forex strategy, and an RSI options strategy.
We will discuss many things in this article, including RSI vs. stochastic indicator and why both indicators are
excellent to trade with. We will also review the stochastic RSI oscillator trading systems, stochastic RSI setting,
five day RSI strategy, Connors RSI strategy, momentum oscillator systems, and binary options strategy that
work with the RSI indicator.

Is RSI a Trend Indicator?


RSI is one of the most used trend indicators you will find online. No one else shares how to trade it with step
by step instructions. You will only find detailed instructions here. This can also be used with your forex trading
strategies if it is your market of choice.

The actual meaning of RSI is relative strength index. This will show you an overbought signal. This will also
show you when the price is in oversold territory. I recommend using this indicator for the RSI overbought
position because it increases your win rate. Before you start trading with our entry signal, we will cover a few
key tips to help improve your trade. Also, read our winning news trading strategy, for more information.

First, remember this should incorporate the daily charts to find the best opportunities. Our Strategy should be
used with multiple time frames to dial in your entries and make them more accurate. Second, it is essential to
use the RSI signal. You will find the price breaking critical levels for the best possible entries.

How To Use This Guide


If you combine this indicator with pivot points and a good candlestick pattern, you will hit trading home runs
regularly.

You will be shown many images in this article to learn how to sell signals or buy signals. You will use the RSI
line, also known as the RSI level, to maximize your effectiveness using this trading method. This article also
serves as a beginners guide for everything related to the relative strength index RSI. We took a lot of time to
create this content with details and examples to help you become better traders.

If you want the Free RSI pdf trading strategy guide to this Strategy, tap here and download it for FREE.

We developed an indicator that uses this strategy and provides you with simple entries and exit points. This
strategy identifies a break of a trend and takes advantage of the movement in the opposite direction. (Kind of
like our Trend Breaker Strategy ). In this article, we will review a simple trading strategy using the RSI
indicator. You are going to benefit from this strategy by learning to trade divergence. Find a low-risk way to sell
near the top or buy near the bottom of a trend.

What is RSI?

RSI Trading Indicator Used for Strategy

The RSI indicator is one of the most popular indicators used by traders in any market, such as stocks, forex,
futures, options, and more. What is the RSI (Relative Strength Indicator)? This indicator was developed by
Welles Wilder around 1978. It quickly became one of the most popular oscillator indicators for traders in
financial markets.

This momentum indicator can fluctuate between 0 and 100 providing overbought and oversold signals.

The formula for this indicator is a bit complex:

I could explain this whole process to you. However, I will spare you the details. I want to share this with the
mathematicians that are reading this and enjoy equations. You can do a quick google search if you would like
to learn more.

Forex Trading Indicator Settings


The default settings for this indicator is a smoothing period of 14. We are going to change that setting to 8.
Make sure you turn this setting before you jump into this strategy. The reason I prefer eight instead of 14 is
because the RSI will be much more responsive. This is critical when we are looking for overbought or oversold
conditions and readings. Also, go into the RSI setting and change the lines in the indicator to 80, 20. You will
learn more about this later.

How to Trade with the RSI Trading Indicator

This indicator will be the only indicator we use for this strategy. This is because we have a strict set of rules to
follow before entering a trade. And these rules will, without a doubt, validate a reversal for us to open a trade.
Below is another strategy on how to apply technical analysis step by step . Before you use this strategy,
make the following changes to the RSI indicator:

Adjustments:

14 period, to 8.
70 and 30 lines, to 80 and 20.
This indicator comes standard on most trading platforms. You'll just need to make the adjustments above.

RSI Trading Strategy


Step One: Find the currency pair that is showing a high the last 50 candlesticks. (OR low depending on the
trade)

The 80-20 Trading strategy can be used for any period. This is because there are reversals of trends in every
period. This can be a swing trade, day trade, or a scalping trade. As long as it follows the rules, it is a valid
trade. We also have training for building a foundation before a forex strategy matters . In this step, we only
need to ensure it is the low or the high of the last 50 candles.

Below is an example:

Note** We will use this same example to explain this strategy. This is a USDCHF currency pair and will be a
BUY trade.
Once we determine this low or high, then we can move on to the next step. I drew vertical lines on the price
chart so you can see the 50 candle low that we identified. If you need to use horizontal lines on your chart to
verify that the candle has closed the lowest the last 50, you can do so. This is not necessary but may be helpful
for you to do and see how strong the trend is.

Step Two Using the RSI Trading Indicator:


When we find 50 candle low, it needs to be coupled with RSI reading 20 or lower. (If it’s high it needs to be
combined with the RSI reading 80 or higher.). Below we have a reading that hit the 20 line on the RSI and was
the low the last 50 candles.
Once we see that we had a low, the last 50 candles, and the RSI is BELOW 20, we can move to the next step.
Remember that this strategy is a reversal strategy. It is going to break the current trend and move the other
direction.

Step Three: Wait for a second price (low candle) to close after the first one that we already identified.

The second price low must be below the first low. Although the RSI Trading indicator must provide a higher
signal than the first. Remember that divergence can be seen by comparing price action and the movement of
an indicator. If the price is making higher highs, the oscillator should also be making higher highs. If the price is
making lower lows, the oscillator should also be making lower lows. If they are not, that means price and the
oscillator are diverging from each other. Which is why it’s called “divergence.”

Just because you see a bullish or bearish divergence, doesn’t mean you should automatically jump in with a
position. We have rules in place that will capitalize on this divergence so that we can make a significant profit.
Keep in mind, that this step may take time to develop. It is very important to wait for this second low because it
gets you in a better trade making position.

This sounds a bit complex, but think of it like this:

Price goes down/RSI goes up. That is the Divergence. Remember that our example is a current downtrend
looking to break to the upside. If this was a 50 candle high, we would be looking at the exact opposite of this
step. With that said, let’s take a look at our chart.

Once this criterion has been met, we can go ahead and look for entry. This is because the charts are showing
us that a reversal is coming soon.

Step Four: How to Enter the Trade with the RSI Trading Strategy.

The way you enter a trade is very simple. You wait for the price to head in the direction of the trade and wait
for a candle to close above the first candle that you identified that was previously 50 candle low.
If you are struggling with this step, save the picture for reference. This will help guide you when looking for a
trade.

Step five: Once you make your entry, place a stop loss.

To place your stop, bump back 1 to 3 time periods and find a reasonable, logical level to put your stop. You are
looking for prior resistance, support.

We placed our stop below this support area. That way if the trend continued and did not break, it could hit this
level and bounce back up in our direction.
I recommend you follow at least a 1 to 3 profit vs. risk level. This will ensure that you are maximizing your
potential to get the most out of the strategy.

You can adjust as you wish. Keep in mind that most successful strategies that identify breaks of a trend use a 1
to 3 profit vs. risk level. Here you can learn how to profit from trading .

Rules Explained

ETHUSD 1H RSI 80-20 REVERSAL TRADING STRATEGY by Tradingstrategyguides on TradingView.com


To recap, Here are the rules of the strategy:

If you have questions or comments about this trading strategy you may reach us at
info@tradingstrategyguides.com. If you would like to see another great strategy go ahead and check out the
Parabolic SAR + Moving Average Strategy. The RSI Trading Strategy is great and is fairly simple to learn.
However, counting 50 candles is a bit monotonous. This is one of the many reasons we have developed the
EFC indicator that trades this strategy for you!

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