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Connors RSI-2, tested on 29 markets

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2008.

Trader Larry Connors put a short-term system in a book.

Buy a strong market after a sharp dip. Sell on the bounce.

The rules
In. When the price is above its 200-day average and the 2-day RSI drops below 5: buy, with the whole account.
Out. It closes above its 5-day average: sell.
Nothing else. No stop. In the book, stops made it worse.

Daily candles · Dec 2017 – Nov 2026 · fees 0.1% a trade included

What we found

$1,000 on LTC, 2017

$1,913

Just holding

−83%

Beat just holding, all 29 markets

5 of 29

Smaller worst drop than holding

29 of 29

Can we make it better?

We wrote down 23 changes before testing, and picked the one that did best on the first 70% of each market's history, across all 29: 2-day RSI total below 35.

Then the real test: LTC after Mar 2024, data it never saw.

The original rules

+19%

2-day RSI total below 35

+80%

Just holding

−43%

It held up on 13 of 29 markets.

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The full test

Every market, the whole period against just holding, and after the cut: the original, the change, holding. Plus all 23 changes.

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Past results, measured on real data with fees included. No promise of future returns. This is not investment advice.