what does the kairi relative index tell you 
the kairi relative index was invented by an investor in japan it came into widespread usage in the middle of the 20th century but by the 1970s it had been superseded by more sophisticated metrics like the relative strength index rsi the kri is measuring how far away the price is from its moving average assets that move a lot will tend to have larger values than assets that don t move a lot for example an extremely low reading on the spdr s p 500 etf spy is between 7 and 15 and a high reading is four to 10 on the upside a volatile stock may have extreme readings of 40 or 50 therefore when the indicator is applied to a stock or other asset note the extreme levels the indicator has reached in the past on that asset those are the areas to watch for on the indicator in the future 