RSI XAUUSD Technical Analysis & RSI Gold Signals
Developed by J. Welles Wilder, explained in the book "New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems".
Relative Strength Index is the most popular indicator & it is a momentum oscillator and a xauusd trend following indicator. RSI compares a trading gold price magnitude of the recent gold price gains against its magnitude of recent losses gold price losses and draws this data on a scale of values that ranges between 0-100.
Relative Strength Index measures the momentum of a xauusd instrument: values above 50 signify bullish momentum while values below 50 center-line signify bearish momentum.
- RSI is drawn as a green line
- Horizontal dashed lines are drawn to identifying over bought & oversold levels are i.e. 70/30 levels respectively.
XAUUSD Technical Analysis and How to Generate Trading Signals
There are several techniques used to trade, these are:
50-level Crossover Signals
- Buy signal - when the indicator crosses above the 50 a buy/bullish signal is given.
- Sell XAUUSD Signal - when the indicator crosses below 50 a sell/bearish signal is given.
RSI Gold Chart Patterns
Traders can draw xauusd trend lines & map out xauusd chart patterns on the RSI indicator. The Relative Strength Index often forms xauusd patterns such as head and shoulders pattern which might not have formed clearly on the gold price chart.
Gold Support/Resistance Break outs
RSI is a leading indicator & can be used to predict Support/Resistance Breakouts before gold price breaks its support/resistance level. RSI uses the swing failure signal to predict when price is about to break support and resistance areas.
Swing Failure - Support and Resistance Break out
Overbought/Oversold Conditions on Technical Indicator
- Overbought- levels above 80
- Oversold- levels below 20
These levels can be used to generate xauusd trading signals such as when RSI turns up from below 20 after oversold, buy and sell when RSI crosses to below 80 after overbought, sell. These signals are not suitable for XAUUSD Trading because they are prone to a lot of fakeouts.
Divergence Gold Setups
Divergence trading is one of the technical analysis method used to trade reversals of the gold price trends. There are 4 types of divergences that can be traded with this indicator covered in the divergence tutorial on this website.