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Re: Oversold and Overbought Time



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Dear MLRobb,
Thank you for your reply.
You missed the reference of Mr Cardwell work. Unfortunately I am not 
informed. If it is available, please forward.

Dimitris Tsokakis 
--- In amibroker@xxxx, MLRobb@xxxx wrote:
> Dimitris:
> 
> You have probably a good idea. There was a body of work begun by 
> Cardwell, which observed RSI 14 tending to a 40-80 bull-band, 
> or a 20-60 bear-band: 
> 
> He introduced (I believe) the predictive concept of positive and 
> negative reversals (being inverted divergences of RSI v. Price 
> pivots); It had some beneficial predictive results concerning 
> subsequent peak and trough price.
> 
> However, as you indicate, these ranges are not transferable from 
one 
> stock to another, necessarily, or from an index to member stocks, 
etc.
> 
> Rather than manually adjust the RSI value, in attempt to fit price 
> action into one of the above ranges, you seem to be striving for a 
> more specific number, which should have good results.
> 
> M.R.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxx, "Dimitris Tsokakis" <TSOKAKIS@xxxx> wrote:
> > Oversold and overbought levels are usually selected by experience 
> and may
> > be not satisfactory for a certain Market.
> > We can change levels in order to give a more reliable description 
> of the Market.
> > 
> > 1. When we select 30, 70 , i.e. equal distance from 0, 100, we 
have 
> not any reason
> > to do it. Perhaps 24, 70 for example would be more realistic.
> > 
> > 2. I have the following idea: 
> > I will examine the oversold time for each stock, I will take its 
> average and so I will
> > define the "mean oversold time (MOT)" for the Market.
> > This will be done for an oversold level which gives MOT >5% of 
> total days, else oversold is meaningless.
> > 
> > 3. Then I will search for a certain overbought level which gives 
> the same "mean
> > overbought time". I consider this more fair for the Market, 
whereas 
> 30, 70 or 20, 80
> > sounds abritary.
> > In other words, I ask levels which share the time equally for 
> oversold and overbought
> > phases.
> > 
> > Any opinion on this ?
> > (The thought behind the curtain is that buyers and sellers wait 
> nearly the same 
> > time interval, until they change the trend.)
> > (formulas are almost prepared, I want to discuss the basic 
thought).
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Dimitris Tsokakis