Internal Bar Strength (IBS) Trading Strategy In Consumer Staples (XLP)

Internal Bar Strength (IBS) Trading Strategy In Consumer Staples (XLP)

The internal bar strength is defined as follows: (close-low)/(high-low). This indicator is very useful on mean revertive trading instruments, like for example XLP. This article contains a simple but quite effective trading strategy using the internal bar strength indicator: The internal bar strength trading strategy In plain English the strategy is like this: Yesterday’s IBS…

When XLP Diverges From Recent High And Low: A Mean Reversion Trading Strategy

A while back I wrote about a day trading strategy in SPY. This one works pretty well on XLP as well, with some modifications: The high and low divergence mean reversion trading strategy The strategy is like this in plain English: Calculate a 25 day average of the (High minus Low – (H-L)). That is…

Trade The Boring Consumer Stocks When They Open Down And Yesterday Was A Down Day – A Day Trading Strategy

Trade The Boring Consumer Stocks When They Open Down And Yesterday Was A Down Day – A Day Trading Strategy

This was a long headline, which probably won’t catch many readers. Anyway, the trading strategy has proven to perform well in the past but in the last years up to 2021, it has been rather flat. In trading, boring is good. The strategy is tested on the ETF with the ticker code XLP. A day…