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Re: Different versions of RSI



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In a message dated 98-09-23 17:36:44 EDT, jimsul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> In his 1978 book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, Welles
>  Wilder does not apply any kind of a moving average to his RSI.  In his
>  example he uses a 14 day RSI.


That isn't quite correct.   No averaging is applied to the final RSI, but a
form of exponential averaging is applied internally  in calculating the RSI
itself.