Perfect RSI entries in 12 minutes — Never miss reversals again [Video]
|Most traders don't realize that the conventional way they've been taught to use RSI is actually setting them up for failure. After two decades of trading, starting on the JP Morgan Chase trading desk on Wall Street, I've discovered why the widely taught RSI strategy keeps traders getting stopped out while professionals profit from the same indicator. It's time to abandon the textbook approach and master how RSI was truly designed to work.
Key insights:
- Revolutionary RSI strategy: Why buying at 30 and selling at 70 is amateur hour, and how using the 50 level for confirmation creates dramatically better entries with higher win rates.
- Trend-following mastery: Learn why fighting overbought/oversold conditions destroys accounts, and how to ride market momentum instead of catching falling knives during crashes.
- Perfect entry timing: My exact step-by-step method for waiting for market confirmation before entering, eliminating the guesswork that causes most RSI trades to fail immediately.
- Advanced risk management: How to position stops at swing lows and trail with moving averages for 2:1 and 3:1 risk-reward ratios while letting winners run.
This isn't just about tweaking RSI settings - it's about understanding why the market can stay "overbought" or "oversold" much longer than most traders expect. When earnings disappoint or central banks shift policy, there's usually a fundamental reason behind strong directional moves. By waiting for the 50-level confirmation, you're trading WITH the emerging trend instead of against it. Learn why patience eliminates losing trades, how to avoid the trap of premature entries, and the exact mindset shift from "catching reversals" to "confirming momentum." This strategy works across all timeframes and markets because it respects what RSI was originally designed to measure - not predict tops and bottoms, but confirm when momentum is actually shifting in your favor.
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