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10.50 Williams %R

Williams %R by Larry Williams is an oscillator showing the day’s close relative to the trading range of the last N days (the highest high to the lowest low). The scale is 0 for a close at the high, down to -100 for a close at the low.

Williams used a 10 day period, which is the default in Chart, and held that a close above -20 suggested an overbought condition, and below -80 suggests oversold. Those levels are shown as lines in Chart. Extremes are reached almost any time new N-day highs or lows are being made, so Williams’ conditions for trading were to buy an oversold when

or conversely to sell an overbought


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