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Designing a Powerful Mean Reversion Trading Strategy
A Double Trouble Trading Strategy For Powerful Market Reversals
Mean reversion is a concept in technical analysis that suggests that prices tend to revert to their historical average over time. In other words, when a price deviates significantly from its average value, there’s a tendency for it to eventually move back towards that average.
For example, let’s say a stock’s price typically fluctuates around $50, but due to some event, it suddenly jumps to $70. According to mean reversion theory, there’s a likelihood that the price will eventually move back closer to $50.
This article presents a strategy that combines two powerful technical indicators to generate reversal signals.
A Refresher on K’s Reversal Indicator II
K’s Reversal Indicator II uses a moving average timing technique to deliver its signals. The code is available on TradingView, so do not burden yourself with the calculation. The method of calculation is as follows:
- Calculate a moving average (by default, a 13-period moving average).
- Calculate the number of times where the market is above its moving average. Whenever that number hits 21, a bearish signal is generated, and whenever that number if zero, a bullish signal is generated.
The following chart shows how bullish and bearish signals are formed (the yellow zone contains 21 bars that are above or below the moving average):
The following chart shows more signals generated from the indicator:
✨ Important note
K’s Reversal Indicator II is available for free on Trading View. You can find it by typing its name in the indicator search bar.
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