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Relative Strength

When everything is pumping, RS separates the leaders from the passengers.

RS Rating — percentile vs the whole universe

RS Rating ranks each coin's price change against every other tracked coin and scores it 0–100: the strongest performer of the window scores 100, the weakest 0. It's computed over four windows — 1 week, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months — so you can see both the sprint and the marathon.

In the screener table the RS column shows W:98 M:85 (week and month), with all four windows on hover. Colors: 80+ = market leader, 60+ = strong, 20 and under = laggard. Coins younger than a window show a dash — never a fake bottom rank.

Why it matters: in a broad pump the whole table is green and every % change looks impressive. RS is the tiebreaker — it tells you which of those green coins the market is actually concentrating on.

Reading the four windows together

Fresh rotation

1W high · 3M low — the coin just started outperforming after months of nothing. Money may be rotating in. The most interesting profile for new positions.

Established leader

High across all four — a coin that has led for months and is still leading. Trend-follow material; expect crowded ownership.

Fading leader

3M/6M high · 1W sinking — a long-time leader losing its short-term edge. Often the first warning before the chart breaks.

Using RS well

Works best when
The market is broadly green and you must choose among many candidates — filter RS 1M ≥ 80 first, then apply your setup filters to that leader pool.
Combine with
🔑 Rising 50 EMA (trend), volume patterns (Fresh Bull / Pocket Pivot). RS says WHICH coin; the setup filters say WHEN.
Avoid when
A thin coin prints one vertical pump day — it will score RS 99 on the week without any real accumulation behind it. Cross-check volume and the chart before trusting a lone high RS print.

vs BTC — beating the tide

Bitcoin is the tide: most alts simply amplify whatever BTC does. The vs BTC column measures how many percentage points a coin out- or under-performed Bitcoin over each window — the table shows the 1-month value, hover for 1W/1M/3M/6M.

Positive = beating BTC. An alt that outperforms while BTC rises AND holds up better when BTC dips is showing real independent demand — those are the coins that lead alt-seasons rather than merely participating in them.

The Beating BTC (1M) checkbox in the Relative Strength filter card keeps only the outperformers. Combine it with a volume pattern to catch strength with a catalyst.

RS Line — the ratio, tracked over time

RS Rating and the RS Line answer different questions. RS Rating is a rank against every other coin, recomputed each day. The RS Line is a single number plotted over time: the coin's price ÷ BTC × 100. Bitcoin is our index, the way an equity screener would use a broad market index.

The level itself means nothing — the direction does. A rising RS Line means the coin is gaining ground on BTC; a falling one means it's losing ground, whatever its dollar price is doing. The signal traders act on is the line making a new N-day high: 21 days, 1 month, 3 months or 6 months.

The sharper variant is “before price” — the RS Line hits a new high while the coin's closing price has not. That only happens when a coin is holding its ground as BTC slides. Price still looks flat or ugly; relative strength has already turned. It is a strict subset of the plain breakout, so it is always the rarer, higher-conviction list.

Coins without enough history for a window show blank rather than a false negative, and BTC itself has no RS Line flags — divided by itself it is a flat 100 line.

Using the RS Line

Works best when
The market is falling. Most coins bleed with BTC; the handful whose RS Line is making new highs through the drawdown are the ones that tend to lead the next rally.
Read it as
New RS high + new price high = a leader confirming. New RS high WITHOUT a price high = a leader forming — strength arriving before the chart shows it.
Avoid when
BTC itself is ripping to new highs. Then almost everything making an RS high is also making a price high, the 'before price' list empties out, and the filter tells you little you did not already see.

RSI is not RS

The names are similar; the meanings aren't. RSI (14-day) is a momentum oscillator computed from a coin's own price swings — overbought above 70, oversold below 30. RS Rating compares the coin against everyone else. A coin can be RSI-overbought AND RS 99 for months — strong trends do exactly that. Use RSI for timing stretch, RS for picking leaders.

Scan recipes

RS leaders

  1. 1Moving Average card → 🔑 Rising 50 EMA on
  2. 2Relative Strength card → RS 1M slider → 80 to 100

→ The top 20% of the market over the last month, in confirmed uptrends.

Fresh rotation

  1. 1RS 1W slider → 80 to 100
  2. 2RS 3M slider → 0 to 50
  3. 3🔑 Rising 50 EMA on

→ Coins that just started leading after months mid-pack — early rotation candidates.

BTC beaters with fresh volume

  1. 1Relative Strength card → Beating BTC (1M) on
  2. 2Volume card → Pocket Pivot on (or Fresh Bull Vol)

→ Outperforming Bitcoin AND printing fresh institutional buying.

RS values refresh with the daily pipeline (~5:45 AM IST), like every screener column. See also Market Breadth for judging whether it's a leaders' market at all.