Engineering Alpha

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The Faraway Island Pattern: When RSI Gets Stranded in an Extreme Zone

Cool Market Patterns Explained

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Sofien Kaabar, CFA
Jun 04, 2026
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The Faraway Island Pattern is built on a simple idea:

Sometimes momentum does not just touch an extreme.

It stays there.

Most RSI signals focus on a quick oversold or overbought reading. The Faraway Island is different. It looks for a market that has remained deeply stretched for several candles in a row.

That is why the name works.

The market is not just vi…

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