As the number of trading periods used in an RSI calculation increases, the indicator is considered to more accurately reflect its measure of relatively strong or weak moves. An RSI setting to use 14 days oversold vs overbought of data is more compelling than a setting of only seven days. The standard (default) on most charting applications is 14 periods, which can be measured in minutes, days, weeks, months, or even years. RSI levels of 80 or above are considered overbought, as this indicates an especially long run of successively higher prices. The higher time timeframe, the less noise there is in the market data. This means that we generally get more reliable signals in daily bars, than 5 minutes bars, just to name one example. The chart below shows a financial asset whose price is at an...[Read More]