Quotex Indicators Explained: RSI, MACD & Bollinger Bands

Quotex charts come with a standard set of technical indicators — RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, moving averages, and stochastic among them. Each one reads price data differently and tells you something different about what's already happened on the chart. None of them predict what happens next. This page covers how each indicator is built, typical settings, and where their limits are.

Quick Answer (TL;DR)

RSI (Relative Strength Index)

RSI measures how fast and how far price has moved recently, then plots that on a scale from 0 to 100. The default setting on most platforms, including Quotex, is a 14-period lookback — meaning it's calculated from the last 14 candles on whatever timeframe you're viewing.

Traders commonly watch the 70 and 30 levels. A reading above 70 means price has moved up quickly relative to its recent range; below 30 means the opposite. This is often labeled "overbought" or "oversold," but those words describe the recent speed of the move, not a forecast of what price does next. An asset can sit above 70 for a long stretch during a strong trend and keep climbing.

RSI works on any chart timeframe available on Quotex, from short candles up to longer ones. Shorter timeframes produce more signals and more noise; longer timeframes produce fewer, slower-moving readings.

MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)

MACD tracks the gap between two exponential moving averages — by default a 12-period and a 26-period — and plots that gap as a line. A third line, a 9-period average of the MACD line itself, acts as a signal line. When the two lines cross, some traders treat that as a shift in short-term momentum.

MACD also shows a histogram — bars representing the distance between the MACD line and its signal line. A shrinking histogram means the two lines are converging; a growing one means they're pulling apart. This gives a visual sense of whether momentum is building or fading, but it's a lagging measure: it's built from moving averages, which are themselves built from past prices.

Bollinger Bands

Bollinger Bands plot three lines: a moving average in the middle (typically 20-period) and two bands above and below it, set at a distance based on standard deviation (typically 2). The bands widen when price is more volatile and narrow when it's calmer.

Price touching or crossing a band doesn't mean it has to reverse. In a strong trend, price can ride along the upper or lower band for an extended stretch. What the bands actually show is a statistical range around the average — useful for gauging whether current volatility is high or low compared to recent history, not a signal on its own.

Moving Averages

A moving average smooths out price by averaging it over a set number of candles, updating as each new candle closes. Shorter averages (like a 9-period) track price closely and react fast; longer ones (like a 50- or 200-period) move slower and filter out more short-term noise.

Traders sometimes watch where price sits relative to a moving average, or where two averages of different lengths cross each other. Both readings describe where price has been, not where it's headed. A moving average is, by definition, always behind current price.

Stochastic Oscillator

Stochastic compares the current closing price to the high-low range over a set lookback period, typically 14 candles, then smooths that with two additional periods (commonly 3 and 3). Like RSI, it's plotted on a 0–100 scale, with 80 and 20 often marked as reference levels.

It behaves similarly to RSI in that extreme readings reflect the size of a recent move relative to its own range, not a guarantee of reversal.

What Indicators Can and Can't Tell You

Every indicator on this list is calculated from past price data. That's true whether it's a lagging tool like a moving average or a bounded oscillator like RSI or stochastic. None of them see forward. They can help you describe what a chart has been doing — trending, ranging, speeding up, slowing down — but that description isn't a forecast, and no combination of settings changes that.

Fixed-time contracts on Quotex add a layer on top of this: you're not just forecasting direction, you're forecasting it within a specific expiry window. An indicator reading that looks meaningful on a 1-hour chart says very little about what happens in the next 60 seconds. Matching the indicator's timeframe to the contract's expiry matters more than which indicator you pick. For more on how expiry interacts with volatility, see our expiry time guide.

Testing Indicator Settings Without Risking Money

Because every indicator behaves differently depending on the asset, timeframe, and settings, the only reliable way to see how one behaves in practice is to watch it play out — without money attached. Quotex's demo account carries $10,000 in virtual funds, resets whenever you want, and runs the same charting tools as the live account, including all the indicators covered here. It's a reasonable place to see how RSI reacts on a 5-minute chart versus a 1-hour chart, for instance, before forming any view on how you'd use it.

You can practise with these indicators on a free demo account before committing real funds. For a structured way to combine chart reading with risk controls, see our strategy overview, and for reading price action without indicators at all, see candlestick patterns.

Sources used: - qxbroker.com — official Quotex platform - Investopedia — Relative Strength Index (RSI) - Investopedia — Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) - Investopedia — Bollinger Bands - Investopedia — Stochastic Oscillator