Mean Reversion Strategy
Mean reversion can be powerful in balanced markets, but it breaks down fast when traders fade strong trends too early.
The strategy only works in the right regime
Mean reversion strategies assume price is stretched and likely to rotate back toward a fairer area. That assumption is strongest in balanced, rotational markets and much weaker in strong directional trends.
Common signals traders combine
- RSI extremes or momentum exhaustion
- Touches or closes outside Bollinger Bands
- Tests of range extremes or prior liquidity sweeps
- Divergence near well-defined support or resistance
Where discipline matters
Mean reversion traders often get trapped by averaging into trades while the market is still trending. Good execution means defining invalidation early and accepting that some stretched moves will keep stretching.
If the market is breaking into a new trend with expanding participation, a reversion thesis can become the wrong trade very quickly.
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