Island Reversal are powerful reversal signals so as a swing trader I'm always searching these out and/or watching them form.
The most powerful Island Reversals generally occur around some sort of news event (or sometimes prior to a news event if Wall Street is in the "know") and typically leads to fairly violent initial move to the upside or downside.
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An exaggerated bearish divergence occurs when price forms a clear top, while the technical indicator (in this case RSI) diverges and forms a lower high.