Relative Strength Index Bitcoin Analysis & RSI Bitcoin Trade Signals

Developed by J. Welles Wilder, explained in the book "New Concepts in Technical Systems".

RSI is the most popular indicator & it is a momentum oscillator and a bitcoin trend following indicator. RSI compares a bitcoin price magnitude of the recent bitcoin price gains against its magnitude of the recent losses bitcoin price losses and draws this data on a scale of values which ranges between 0-100.

RSI measures the momentum of bitcoin crypto; values above 50 signify bullish momentum while values below 50 center-line signify bearish momentum.

Relative Strength Index Bitcoin Indicator - RSI Crypto Indicators

RSI is drawn as a green line
Horizontal dashed lines are plotted to identifying over bought & oversold levels are i.e. 70/30 levels respectively.

Bitcoin Analysis & Generating Trading Signals

There are several different techniques used to trade, these are:

50-level Cross over Signals

Buy trade signal - when the indicator crosses above the 50 a buy/bullish trading signal is given.
Sell Bitcoin Signal - when the indicator crosses below 50 a sell/bearish signal is given.

RSI Indicator Buy Sell Bitcoin Signals - RSI - RSI BTCUSD Indicators

RSI Bitcoin Patterns

Traders can draw bitcoin trend lines & map out chart patterns on the RSI indicator. The RSI commonly forms cryptocurrency patterns such as head & shoulders cryptocurrency pattern which might not have formed clearly on the bitcoin price chart.

Bitcoin Support/Resistance Break outs

RSI is a leading indicator & can be used to predict Support/Resistance Breakouts before bitcoin price breaks its support/resistance level. RSI uses the swing failure signal to predict when bitcoin price is about to break resistance and support zones.

Support and Resistance Breakout

Swing Failure - Support and Resistance Breakout

Overbought/Over-sold Conditions on Technical Indicator

Overbought levels above 80
Oversold- levels below 20

These levels can be used to generate bitcoin signals such as when RSI turns up from below 20 after over-sold, buy and sell when RSI crosses to below 80 after overbought, sell. These signals are not suitable for Bitcoin because they are prone to a lot of whipsaws.

Divergence Bitcoin Trade Setups

Divergence trading is one of the trading analysis method used to trade reversals of the bitcoin price trends. There are 4 types of divergences that can be traded with this trading indicator covered in the divergence guide on this web site.

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