RSI Bitcoin Trading Strategies

• RSI Overbought and Oversold Levels
• RSI Divergence Setups
• RSI Classic Bullish and Bearish Divergence
• RSI Hidden Bullish and Bearish Divergence
• Swing Failure Strategy
• RSI Cryptocurrency Chart Patterns Bitcoin Trend Lines
• RSI Summary

RSI Indicator Bitcoin Trading Strategy

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

RSI Bitcoin Indicator Measures Momentum of a Bitcoin Trend.

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

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

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

RSI Cryptocurrency Indicator - How to Trade Bitcoin with RSI Crypto Indicator

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

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

From the cryptocurrency trading example above, when the bitcoin 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 btcusd price bitcoin trend was generally upwards. As long as RSI indicator does not move to below 50 the current bitcoin trend remains intact. This is the reason the 50 center line mark is used to demarcate the signal between bullish and bearish cryptocurrency signals.

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

The RSI indicator period used depends on the crypto chart time frame you are using to trade, if you are using day crypto chart time frame the 14 period will represent 14 days, while if you use 1 hour crypto chart time frame the 14 period will represent 14 hours. For our cryptocurrency trading 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 bitcoin trading with.

To Calculate RSI Crypto Indicator:

• The number of days that a cryptocurrency market is up is compared to the number of days that the btcusd trading market is down in a given time period.
• The numerator in the basic formula is an average of all the bitcoin trading sessions that finished with an upward btcusd price change.
• The denominator is an average of all the down bitcoin 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 btcusd price in a single bitcoin trading session btcusd price period may skew the calculation of the RSI average and produce a false cryptocurrency signal - whipsaw signal - in the form of a spike.

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

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