diff --git a/piker/fsp.py b/piker/fsp.py
index f1418c2a..25014155 100644
--- a/piker/fsp.py
+++ b/piker/fsp.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 """
 Financial signal processing for the peeps.
 """
-from typing import AsyncIterator, List
+from typing import AsyncIterator, List, Callable
 
+import tractor
 import numpy as np
+from numba import jit, float64, int64, void, optional
 
 from .log import get_logger
 from . import data
@@ -11,58 +13,49 @@ from . import data
 log = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
-def rec2array(
-    rec: np.ndarray,
-    fields: List[str] = None
-) -> np.ndarray:
-    """Convert record array to std array.
-
-    Taken from:
-    https://github.com/scikit-hep/root_numpy/blob/master/root_numpy/_utils.py#L20
+async def latency(
+    source: 'TickStream[Dict[str, float]]',
+    ohlcv: np.ndarray
+) -> AsyncIterator[np.ndarray]:
+    """Compute High-Low midpoint value.
     """
-    simplify = False
+    # TODO: do we want to offer yielding this async
+    # before the rt data connection comes up?
 
-    if fields is None:
-        fields = rec.dtype.names
-    elif isinstance(fields, str):
-        fields = [fields]
-        simplify = True
+    # deliver zeros for all prior history
+    yield np.zeros(len(ohlcv))
 
-    # Creates a copy and casts all data to the same type
-    arr = np.dstack([rec[field] for field in fields])
-
-    # Check for array-type fields. If none, then remove outer dimension.
-    # Only need to check first field since np.dstack will anyway raise an
-    # exception if the shapes don't match
-    # np.dstack will also fail if fields is an empty list
-    if not rec.dtype[fields[0]].shape:
-        arr = arr[0]
-
-    if simplify:
-        # remove last dimension (will be of size 1)
-        arr = arr.reshape(arr.shape[:-1])
-
-    return arr
+    async for quote in source:
+        ts = quote.get('broker_ts')
+        if ts:
+            # This is codified in the per-broker normalization layer
+            # TODO: Add more measure points and diffs for full system
+            # stack tracing.
+            value = quote['brokerd_ts'] - quote['broker_ts']
+            yield value
 
 
-async def pull_and_process(
+async def stream_and_process(
     bars: np.ndarray,
     brokername: str,
     # symbols: List[str],
     symbol: str,
     fsp_func_name: str,
+    func: Callable = latency,
 ) -> AsyncIterator[dict]:
 
+    # remember, msgpack-numpy's ``from_buffer` returns read-only array
+    # bars = np.array(bars[list(ohlc_dtype.names)])
+
     # async def _yield_bars():
     #     yield bars
 
     # hist_out: np.ndarray = None
 
-    func = latency
-
     # Conduct a single iteration of fsp with historical bars input
     # async for hist_out in func(_yield_bars(), bars):
     #     yield {symbol: hist_out}
+    func = _rsi
 
     # open a data feed stream with requested broker
     async with data.open_feed(
@@ -90,26 +83,131 @@ async def pull_and_process(
 # - how to handle non-plottable values
 # - composition of fsps / implicit chaining
 
-async def latency(
-    source: 'TickStream[Dict[str, float]]',
-    ohlcv: np.ndarray
-) -> AsyncIterator[np.ndarray]:
-    """Compute High-Low midpoint value.
-    """
-    # TODO: do we want to offer yielding this async
-    # before the rt data connection comes up?
+@jit(
+    float64[:](
+        float64[:],
+        optional(float64),
+        optional(float64)
+    ),
+    nopython=True,
+    nogil=True
+)
+def ema(
+    y: 'np.ndarray[float64]',
+    alpha: optional(float64) = None,
+    ylast: optional(float64) = None,
+) -> 'np.ndarray[float64]':
+    r"""Exponential weighted moving average owka 'Exponential smoothing'.
 
-    # deliver zeros for all prior history
-    yield np.zeros(len(ohlcv))
+    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Exponential_moving_average
+    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_smoothing
+
+    Fun facts:
+        A geometric progression is the discrete version of an
+        exponential function, that is where the name for this
+        smoothing method originated according to statistics lore. In
+        signal processing parlance, an EMA is a first order IIR filter.
+
+    .. math::
+
+        .tex
+        {S_{t}={\begin{cases}Y_{1},&t=1
+         \\\alpha Y_{t}+(1-\alpha )\cdot S_{t-1},&t>1\end{cases}}}
+
+        .nerd
+        (2) s = {
+                s[0] = y[0]; t = 0
+                s[t] = a*y[t] + (1-a)*s[t-1], t > 0.
+            }
+    """
+    n = y.shape[0]
+
+    if alpha is None:
+        # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Relationship_between_SMA_and_EMA
+        # use the "center of mass" convention making an ema compare
+        # directly to the com of a SMA or WMA:
+        alpha = 2 / float(n + 1)
+
+    s = np.empty(n, dtype=float64)
+
+    if n == 1:
+        s[0] = y[0] * alpha + ylast * (1 - alpha)
+
+    else:
+        if ylast is None:
+            s[0] = y[0]
+        else:
+            s[0] = ylast
+
+        for i in range(1, n):
+            s[i] = y[i] * alpha + s[i-1] * (1 - alpha)
+
+    return s
+
+
+# @jit(
+#     float64[:](
+#         float64[:],
+#         int64,
+#     ),
+#     # nopython=True,
+#     nogil=True
+# )
+def rsi(
+    signal: 'np.ndarray[float64]',
+    period: int = 14,
+    up_ema_last: float64 = None,
+    down_ema_last: float64 = None,
+) -> 'np.ndarray[float64]':
+    alpha = 1/period
+    print(signal)
+
+    df = np.diff(signal)
+    up, down = np.where(df > 0, df, 0), np.where(df < 0, -df, 0)
+    up_ema = ema(up, alpha, up_ema_last)
+    down_ema = ema(down, alpha, down_ema_last)
+    rs = up_ema / down_ema
+    print(f'up_ema: {up_ema}\ndown_ema: {down_ema}')
+    print(f'rs: {rs}')
+    # map rs through sigmoid (with range [0, 100])
+    rsi = 100 - 100 / (1 + rs)
+    # rsi = 100 * (up_ema / (up_ema + down_ema))
+    # also return the last ema state for next iteration
+    return rsi, up_ema[-1], down_ema[-1]
+
+
+# @piker.fsp(
+#     aggregates=['30s', '1m', '5m', '1H', '4H', '1D'],
+# )
+async def _rsi(
+    source: 'QuoteStream[Dict[str, Any]]',  # noqa
+    ohlcv: np.ndarray,
+    period: int = 14,
+) -> AsyncIterator[np.ndarray]:
+    """Multi-timeframe streaming RSI.
+
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_strength_index
+    """
+    sig = ohlcv['close']
+    rsi_h, up_ema_last, down_ema_last = rsi(sig, period, None, None)
+
+    # deliver history
+    yield rsi_h
 
     async for quote in source:
-        ts = quote.get('broker_ts')
-        if ts:
-            # This is codified in the per-broker normalization layer
-            # TODO: Add more measure points and diffs for full system
-            # stack tracing.
-            value = quote['brokerd_ts'] - quote['broker_ts']
-            yield value
+        # tick based updates
+        for tick in quote.get('ticks', ()):
+            if tick.get('type') == 'trade':
+                last = np.array([sig[-1], tick['price']])
+                # await tractor.breakpoint()
+                rsi_out, up_ema_last, down_ema_last = rsi(
+                    last,
+                    period=period,
+                    up_ema_last=up_ema_last,
+                    down_ema_last=down_ema_last,
+                )
+                print(f'last: {last}\n rsi: {rsi_out}')
+                yield rsi_out[-1]
 
 
 async def wma(
diff --git a/piker/ui/_chart.py b/piker/ui/_chart.py
index 5f075ed2..a41d7546 100644
--- a/piker/ui/_chart.py
+++ b/piker/ui/_chart.py
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ async def chart_from_fsp(
             f'fsp.{func_name}',  # name as title of sub-chart
 
             # subactor entrypoint
-            fsp.pull_and_process,
+            fsp.stream_and_process,
             bars=bars,
             brokername=brokermod.name,
             symbol=sym,