Silver RSI (14): How to Read the Relative Strength Index for XAG/USD
What the RSI(14) values for silver mean, how Wilder's RSI is calculated, and how silver's higher volatility changes the way its 1-hour, 4-hour and daily readings should be interpreted.
Silver's RSI(14) works exactly like gold's, but silver moves differently: it is roughly twice as volatile as gold in percentage terms, so its RSI reaches extremes faster and reverses more often. This guide explains the calculation, how to read silver's three timeframes, and why silver's RSI needs wider expectations than gold's.
The same indicator, a faster market
RSI measures the strength of recent up-moves versus down-moves over 14 periods, on a scale of 0 to 100. The formula is identical for every market. What changes is the market: silver's average daily range is about 4.3% of its price (ATR 2.22 on a price near $52), while gold's is about 2.1% (ATR 84.45 on a price near $4,072). The same percentage move that takes gold a full day can happen in silver in a few hours, so silver's 1-hour RSI swings more violently and its daily RSI can travel from neutral to near-oversold in a single session.
How Wilder's RSI(14) is calculated
For each period, take the change in close. Gains and losses are averaged separately — the first average is a simple average of the first 14 periods, and every step after that uses Wilder's smoothing, weighting the previous average at 13/14 and the newest change at 1/14. RS = average gain / average loss; RSI = 100 − 100 / (1 + RS). At least 15 closes are needed before the first value is meaningful, and the calculation must use one consistent series of closes. This site computes RSI separately for the 1-hour, 4-hour and daily closes of silver, each from its own verified series.
Reading the three timeframes together
- 1-hour RSI: short-term momentum. In silver it can move 5–10 points in one hour on a normal day — treat single-hour moves as noise unless the candle also breaks a level.
- 4-hour RSI: medium-term momentum. More stable, and the more useful read for whether a bounce has legs.
- Daily RSI: the trend-level reading. When the daily RSI is below 40 while the 1-hour RSI is above 50, the usual reading is a short-term bounce inside a weaker daily trend.
Worked example: silver on 6 November 2026, 15:00 PKT
At the last verified update, silver's RSI values were 1-hour 51.44, 4-hour 49.41 and daily 37.48. The daily reading is the interesting one: 37.48 is approaching oversold territory but is not at 30, and it reflects a genuine daily downtrend — silver closed the Thursday session down 0.86% and spent Friday below its daily Pivot. The 1-hour reading above 50 shows the short-term bounce that took silver back up to test the Pivot twice. The two readings do not contradict each other; they describe different horizons.
| Timeframe | RSI(14) | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 1-hour | 51.44 | Neutral, just above 50 |
| 4-hour | 49.41 | Neutral, just below 50 |
| Daily | 37.48 | Weak, approaching oversold — not at 30 |
What silver's RSI cannot tell you
- A daily RSI near 30 in silver is more common than in gold because of the higher volatility. It still does not guarantee a bounce.
- RSI extremes in silver often arrive together with fast moves through support and resistance. A level break confirmed by a completed candle close matters more than the RSI number alone.
- In choppy, range-bound sessions silver's 1-hour RSI crosses 50 repeatedly. Wait for the 4-hour reading and the price structure before drawing a conclusion.
- Always read RSI with where price sits relative to the daily Pivot and the nearest support or resistance level.
On this site, silver's RSI is always shown with its timeframe, its provider and the timestamp of the closes it was computed from. If the closes needed for RSI are unavailable, the value is shown as unavailable — never estimated from a spot snapshot.