what does the stochastic rsi tell you 
the stochrsi was developed by tushar s chande and stanley kroll and detailed in their book the new technical trader first published in 1994 while technical indicators already existed to show overbought and oversold levels the two developed stochrsi to improve sensitivity and generate a greater number of signals than traditional indicators could do the stochrsi deems something to be oversold when the value drops below 0 20 meaning the rsi value is trading at the lower end of its predefined range and that the short term direction of the underlying security may be nearing a low a possible move higher conversely a reading above 0 80 suggests the rsi may be reaching extreme highs and could be used to signal a pullback in the underlying security along with identifying overbought oversold conditions the stochrsi can be used to identify short term trends by looking at it in the context of an oscillator with a centerline at 0 50 when the stochrsi is above 0 50 the security may be seen as trending higher and vice versa when it s below 0 50 the stochrsi should also be used in conjunction with other technical indicators or chart patterns to maximize effectiveness especially given the high number of signals that it generates in addition non momentum oscillators like the accumulation distribution line may be particularly helpful because they don t overlap in terms of functionality and provide insights from a different perspective the difference between the stochastic rsi and the relative strength index rsi they seem similar but the stochrsi relies on a different formula from what generates rsi values rsi is a derivative of price meanwhile stochrsi is derivative of rsi itself or a second derivative of price one of the key differences is how quickly the indicators move stochrsi moves very quickly from overbought to oversold or vice versa while the rsi is a much slower moving indicator one isn t better than the other stochrsi just moves more and more quickly than the rsi limitations of using the stochastic rsione downside to using the stochrsi is that it tends to be quite volatile rapidly moving from high to low smoothing the stochrsi may help in this regard some traders will take a moving average of the stochrsi to reduce the volatility and make the indicator more useful for example a 10 day simple moving average of the stochrsi can produce an indicator that s much smoother and more stable most charting platforms allow for applying one type of indicator to another without any personal calculations required also the stochrsi is the second derivative of price in other words its output is two steps away from the actual price of the asset being analyzed which means at times it may be out of sync with an asset s market price in real time 