Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Second Edition
by Michael N. Kahn
RSI Versus Stochastics
Although most indicators of the oscillator variety were designed for flat markets, RSI still yields the meaningful results in trending markets. Stochastics seems to work better in flat or choppy markets. Although the goal of each is similar, they were designed with different specific purposes. The RSI, as mentioned, helps determine when a price has moved too far too fast, and this implies a trending market. Stochastics helps determine when a price has moved to the top or bottom of a trading range, which implies a non-trending (flat or choppy) market.
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RSI still yields the meaningful results in trending markets. |
Figure 36.2 shows 100 days of daily trading for the silver market with 9-day RSI and 9-day Slow Stochastics. ...
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