RSI compares the magnitude of recent gains to recent losses and outputs a 0–100 score. Below 30 the market is conventionally oversold; above 70 it is overbought. Vant8 uses RSI as a primary signal in the RSI strategy and as a confirmation or filter in several others. It is calculated with Wilder's smoothing, exactly as the standard textbook defines it.
RSI takes the average of up-moves and down-moves over a lookback window and folds them into a single bounded score. A streak of green candles pushes the score up; a streak of red candles pushes it down. The bounded scale makes it easy to define overbought / oversold thresholds that work the same on any price level.
Strong recent up-moves dominate. Reversion strategies look for shorts here; trend strategies treat it as a take-profit signal.
No clear directional momentum dominates. Trend strategies care about other indicators in this band; reversion strategies stay out.
Strong recent down-moves dominate. Reversion strategies look for longs here; trend strategies typically pause new shorts.
The first period is a simple average of gains and losses; subsequent periods use Wilder's exponential smoothing (weight 1 / period). This is the standard formula — we don't substitute EMA smoothing or take any other shortcut that would make the numbers look subtly different from charts you compare against.
These are the defaults the engine uses out of the box. You can override them per strategy from the strategy create form.
The standard lookback. Used across every Vant8 strategy that consumes RSI unless explicitly overridden.
The level below which the RSI strategy will enter a long. The default is 30. Selecting the HIGH risk profile when you create the strategy tightens this to 25 — entries then require a more extreme oversold reading before firing.
The level above which RSI signals an exit (for longs) or an entry (for shorts on perp).
Beyond the threshold cross, the RSI strategy looks for divergence — price making a new high while RSI fails to confirm it (and vice versa). Divergence is detected by tracking recent peaks and troughs on both price and RSI.
Price prints a lower low while RSI prints a higher low. The strategy treats this as a higher-conviction long signal than a plain oversold cross.
Price prints a higher high while RSI prints a lower high. The strategy treats this as a higher-conviction short or take-profit signal.
In a strong uptrend RSI can stay above 70 for days. Treating that as a short signal in isolation will lose money. Trend-following strategies on Vant8 cross-check ADX before trusting an RSI extreme.
An RSI extreme says momentum is stretched; it does not say when the move will reverse. The RSI strategy waits for a confirming candle close before acting, but you should still expect some drift past the threshold before any reversal.
Every indicator Vant8 wires into a live signal has its own page. The ones not listed here are calculated in code but not used to generate a trade decision.
Trend-and-momentum indicator built on the spread between two EMAs.
Simple and exponential averages, plus the crossover signal between a fast and slow MA.
Volatility measured in price units, gap-inclusive. Sizes stops and grid steps.
How strong a trend is, irrespective of direction. Decides whether to follow or fade.
A moving average with standard-deviation bands. Mean Reversion uses band touches.
N-bar high and N-bar low. Used by Perp Trend Following for breakout entries and exits.
%K and %D lines pinned to a 0–100 scale from the recent high–low range. Available as a Custom Strategy Builder rule.
The strategies listed above are deployed from the Strategies page on your dashboard. Each one ships with sensible defaults you can tune before deployment.