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Let’s try the good old strategy for RSI(2) mean reversion.Buy on Rsi(2)<30Sell on Rsi(2)>60Execution is on the Open of the next day.This is what trading the SPY etf looks like. How about using the same signals and selling 10, 1-point away from the floor price, front month Puts.* Again, we sell 10 Puts right below …
One of the readers of this blog, Mark, alerted me to a new indicator/system published from Connors/Alvarez : The ConnorsRSI. What is the ConnorsRSI? It consists of three components:a. Short term Relative Strength, i.e., RSI(3).b. Counting consecutive up and down days (streaks) and “normalizing” the data using RSI(streak,2). The result is a bounded, 0-100 indicator.c. Magnitude of the move …
Read pt.1 REad pt.2 Back in 2009 Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez published several short term trading systems in their book “High Probability ETF Trading”. They described 7 mean reverting strategies. What happens, then once a strategy becomes public domain? Do they loose their edge? All tests are performed on a set of 20 ETFs: DIA,EEM,EFA,EWH,EWJ,EWT,EWZ,FXI,GLD,ILF,IWM,IYR,QQQQ,SPY,XHB,XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLV …
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