The Quest Begins (The “Why”)
Honestly, I was staring at a candlestick chart at 2 a.m., coffee gone cold, wondering why my “gut feeling” trades kept landing me in the red. I’d read a dozen blog posts that shouted “use moving averages!” and “RSI is your friend!” but every time I tried to slap them together in a script, I ended up with a tangled mess of loops, off‑by‑one errors, and signals that looked like random noise. It felt like I was trying to dodge bullets in The Matrix without ever seeing the code behind them.
I needed a solid foundation — something I could trust, back‑test, and actually build a strategy around. So I embarked on a quest to demystify two of the most talked‑about indicators: the Simple Moving Average (SMA) and the Relative Strength Index (RSI). If you’ve ever felt stuck in a loop of second‑guessing every tick, you know exactly where I’m coming from.
The Revelation (The Insight)
The “aha!” moment came when I stopped treating the indicators as magical black boxes and started looking at the math behind them.
