Charting  |  MAR 2003

Combining Fibonacci Retracements And The RSI by Ingo W. Bucher

Combining Fibonacci Retracements And The RSI by Ingo W. Bucher Combining the two can help identify significant support and resistance levels. Many of you have used the relative strength index (RSI) and Fibonacci retracement levels independently, but have you ever considered analyzing the behavior of Fibonacci retracement levels on the RSI? It may seem remote, but this technique could have some advantages over the commonly used 70–30 overboughtoversold level of the RSI. In addition, there is a great deal of information between the overbought and oversold levels that could be exploited more effectively by combining traditional charting and Fibonacci ratios. I’ll start by defining RSI. THE RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX (RSI) The RSI compares the strength of price advances with respect to price declines over a specific time period. In 1978, J. Welles Wilder Jr. developed this indicator to overcome some of the inaccuracies of the simpler momentum oscillators. The term “relative strength” can be slightly misleading, because the indicator does not show the relationship between two different securities. Instead, it measures the internal strength of one security. The calculation of the RSI is provided in detail in the sidebar, “Relative strength index calculation.”

by Ingo W. Bucher