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RSI

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and size of recent price changes on a 0–100 scale. This article explains what RSI actually measures, the meaning (and frequent misuse) of the 70/30 overbought and oversold thresholds, the centreline at 50, and RSI divergence — where momentum and price disagree. It is emphatic that overbought is not a sell instruction and oversold is not a buy one: in strong trends RSI can stay pinned at an extreme for a long time.

13 min readPublished 19 June 2026

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A reversal is a genuine change in a market's prevailing direction — an uptrend becoming a downtrend, or vice versa. This article defines a trend structurally (higher highs and higher lows, or lower highs and lower lows), shows how a reversal is the breaking of that sequence, and tackles the hardest problem in all of price action: telling a real reversal from an ordinary pullback. It closes on why reversals are only ever confirmed in hindsight, and why 'catching' them is where so many go wrong.

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