RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto

RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto at a glance

Kind of rule	Betting on a snap-back (mean reversion)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA, Pivot points, SMA, VWMA, WMA, RMA, bars since, pivot low, value when
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	12 cells: 12 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Trades placed	none
Page updated	2026-11-08

RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto backtest results, every cell

There is no cloud of cells to draw. The frame below says why.

How RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It buys after a fall and sells after a rise, on the idea that price returns toward normal. The wins are usually small and frequent. The loss comes when price does not return and the stretch turns into a trend. The next paragraph is this particular rule, which can be narrower than the group.

It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. It leans on ATR, EMA, pivot high, pivot low; those names are explained on their own pages, further down. The exact line is in the list below, in the author's names, and you can skip that list. When it enters, it also sets a stop or a target, so a trade can close without a new signal.

Each trade uses 10 percent of the account. It holds one trade at a time.

The exact condition, from the code

Same rule, translated from the code, in the author's names. You can skip this list if the paragraph above was enough.

• Enters long when raw bull and (not (Enable RSI Zone Filter (off)) or (RSI oversold flag or RSI is below RSI Oversold Level (30))) and (not (Enable Trend Filter (off)) or the close is above trend maraw on the MA Timeframe timeframe).
• Enters short when raw bear and (not (Enable RSI Zone Filter (off)) or (RSI overbought flag or RSI is above RSI Overbought Level (70))) and (not (Enable Trend Filter (off)) or the close is below trend maraw on the MA Timeframe timeframe).
• Places a stop at stop price, a target at target price when a long position is open.
• Places a stop at stop price, a target at target price when a short position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA, Pivot points, SMA, VWMA, WMA, RMA, bars since, pivot low, value when
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 10 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed no trading cost.

Default settings

The test used the defaults in the middle column. Nothing was turned to help a coin.

Setting	Default	Group
RSI Length	14	RSI Settings
RSI Source	close	RSI Settings
Pivot Lookback Left	5	Divergence Settings
Pivot Lookback Right	5	Divergence Settings
Min Bars Between Pivots	5	Divergence Settings
Max Bars Between Pivots	60	Divergence Settings
Enable RSI Zone Filter	off	Filter Settings
RSI Oversold Level	30	Filter Settings
RSI Overbought Level	70	Filter Settings
Enable Trend Filter	off	Filter Settings
MA Timeframe		Filter Settings
MA Type	SMA	Filter Settings
MA Length	200	Filter Settings
MA Source	close	Filter Settings
SL/TP Method	Swing	SL/TP Settings
Exit Levels Mode	Dynamic	SL/TP Settings
Swing Lookback (bars)	20	Swing Settings
Swing Margin (%)	1	Swing Settings
R/R Ratio (Swing)	2	Swing Settings
ATR Length	14	ATR Settings
ATR SL Multiplier	1.5	ATR Settings
R/R Ratio (ATR)	2	ATR Settings

How the backtest was run

Every strategy was tried the same way, on the settings the author published.

The years are October 2021 to June 2026. The prices are from Bybit, for 13 widely traded coins, mostly on hourly, 4-hour and daily charts, with some faster charts. That was 47,242 tries. The window stored in the files is 2021-09..2026-06.

599 rules produced a finished try. A rule that finished above zero on at least 12 cells, before any fee, was tried again with a fee of 0.12 percent per side. Only buys are counted in that second try. 273 rules got it.

The method, the aggregate results and a downloadable table are on the study page. What the desk does with the results beyond these pages is its own.

Before any fee, it was tried on 12 cells, and it placed no trades.

It was not run a second time with a fee. That second pass happens only when at least 12 cells finished above zero before fees. 273 rules got that pass.

Cells tried	12
Cells that placed a trade	0
Finished above zero	0

Label: backtest · old prices, zero commission · Oct 2021 – Jun 2026. Hypothetical results; see the risk disclosure.

How to read the result

How to read the number

No cell took a trade, so there is no return to read. The rule above is the whole note.

What this does not show

The useful question is the stretch that never snapped back. That is where a year of small wins can disappear.

There is no cell to single out, and this note does not invent one. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto

Words used on this page

Backtest

The rule was tried on old prices. No real money moved.

Cell

One coin on one chart speed. Bitcoin every 4 hours is one cell. Bitcoin once a day is another.

Chart speed

How often a new price bar is drawn. 15m means every 15 minutes, 1h means hourly, 4h means every 4 hours, 1D means once a day.

Fee, per side

A cost taken each time the rule trades. Per side means once on the way in and once on the way out.

Median

Line the cells up from the biggest loss to the biggest gain. The median is the middle one. Half the cells did better and half did worse.

Drawdown

The deepest fall from a high point along the way, as a percent of the account at that high.

Above zero

The account finished with more than it started.

The indicators RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto uses

Each has its own page: what it measures, how it is read, where it misleads.

• ATR (average true range): the volatility number behind most stops
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• Pivot points: swing pivots and floor-trader pivots, two different things with one name
• Simple moving average (SMA): the plainest average, and why it still runs half the strategies
• Volume-weighted moving average (VWMA): an average that listens to volume
• Weighted moving average (WMA): linear weights, less lag, and the price of it
• Wilder's smoothing (RMA): the average inside RSI, ATR and ADX

"RSI Divergence Strategy - AliferCrypto" was published on TradingView by its author, under the author's own license. This page is an independent reading of those rules and of what they did on these old prices. It is not written with the author, and it is not a recommendation. Not every detail survives the translation onto this page, so read the original before you rely on it.