When CCI earns a seat at the table
Commodity Channel Index is optional in our flagship workshop — here is when we add it beside RSI and MACD, and when we leave it off.
CCI divides the room. Some traders swear by ±100 crosses on commodities and index futures; others find it twitchy on equities. In the Oscillator Comparison Intensive we introduce CCI after lunch, once RSI, Stochastic, and MACD habits are on paper.
We add CCI when the class is working mean-reversion examples on liquid futures or highly cyclical equities. We leave it off when the group is mostly FX swing traders who already feel overloaded — three well-compared oscillators beat four half-understood ones.
If you already rely on CCI, tell the facilitator at the start. We will keep a CCI pane alive on the shared screen so your notes stay honest to your real layout.