Yesterday (on the 23rd) SPY closed below the previous day’s 5 day low. Even more, SPY gapped down and never traded over the previous day’s low. Some days back I wrote an article about a possible strategy to buy SPY when it closed below the previous day’s 5 day low. That strategy is in my…
Mean reversion strategies work well in the stock market. One of the best indicators for such strategies is the Internal Bar Strength Indicator (IBS): (HIGH-CLOSE)/(HIGH-LOW) This simple formula increases the odds a lot, in my experience, for mean-revertive assets like stocks and stock indices. Here is an example: Enter at close if the above formula is…
