01 May Beating the Market with the RSI Indicator
Beating the Market with the RSI Indicator
May 1, 2023
It’s RSI Week!
As you know, indicators sometimes get a bad rap in the trading world. I guess it makes people feel smart to criticize useful tools.
But as you also know, I love indicators. They’re clear. They’re defined. They’re based on excellent math.
The ultimate question is: Do they work?
Can an indicator help us make money?
Here’s an interesting example. The other day I was meandering around some of my old systems, and I came across a old chart on the Daily ES. We talked about Futures last week, so maybe that’s why it piqued my interest.
And this old chart used the RSI. How fun.
So I loaded a bunch of data and here’s the Report from 1995-2023 trading 1 contract each time:
Whoa. That beats buying and holding the ES by 10x. And it also trounces buying-and-holding the stock market over the same period (on a risk-adjusted basis).
And all it does is use the RSI.
Here are the details:
The RSI Daily ES.D System
Long Only Entry: Price must first close into Oversold (Length 2; Oversold 10). Enter at the open of the next bar when price closes above Oversold.
Filter: Price must be above the 100-day Simple Moving Average.
Exit: When price closes into Overbought (70), exit at the open of the next bar.
Chart: Use the stock market session ES.D chart
Here are some recent trades:
Is it scary not to have a stoploss? Sure. Does a stoploss make the system a lot worse? Definitely. Could you put a stop on it? Yes. A $9,100 stop, while huge, works well.
Just using a great momentum indicator during an uptrend has worked on the ES since 1995.
Crazy.
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