Bollinger Bands Strategies
Bollinger Bands is a techinacal analysis tool invented by john Bollinger in the 1980s. Having evolved from the concept of trading bands, Bollinger Bands can be used to measure the highness or lowness of the price relative to previous trades.
Bollinger Bands consist of:
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a middle band being an N-period simple moving average (MA)
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an upper band at K times an N-period standard deviation above the middle band (MA + Kσ)
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a lower band at K times an N-period standard deviation below the middle band (MA − Kσ)
Typical values for N and K are 20 and 2, respectively. The default choice for the average is a simple moving average, but other types of averages can be employed as needed. Exponential moving average are a common second choice.] Usually the same period is used for both the middle band and the calculation of standard deviation.
The purpose of Bollinger Bands is to provide a relative definition of high and low. By definition, prices are high at the upper band and low at the lower band. This definition can aid in rigorous pattern recognition and is useful in comparing price action to the action of indicators to arrive at systematic trading decisions.
The use of Bollinger Bands varies widely among traders. Some traders buy when price touches the lower Bollinger Band and exitwhen price touches the moving average in the center of the bands. Other traders buy when price breaks above the upper Bollinger Band or sell when price falls below the lower Bollinger Band. Moreover, the use of Bollinger Bands is not confined to stock traders; options traders, most notably implied volatility traders, often sell options when Bollinger Bands are historically far apart or buy options when the Bollinger Bands are historically close together, in both instances, expecting volatility to revert back towards the average historical volatility level for the stock.
When the bands lie close together a period of low volatility in stock price is indicated. When they are far apart a period of high volatility in price is indicated. When the bands have only a slight slope and lie approximately parallel for an extended time the price of a stock will be found to oscillate up and down between the bands as though in a channel.
Traders are often inclined to use Bollinger Bands with other indicators to see if there is confirmation. In particular, the use of an oscillator like Bollinger Bands will often be coupled with a non-oscillator indicator likechart pattern or a trendline; if these indicators confirm the recommendation of the Bollinger Bands, the trader will have greater evidence that what the bands forecast is correct.
Bollinger Bands Forex Strategies
5# Bollinger Bands Pin Bar and Real MACD
8# Bollinger Bands Multitimframe
9# Bollinger Bands and the Gimmees bar
11# Bollinger Bands Breakout and RSI
12# Bollinger Bands and Fibonacci Retracement
14# Bollinger Bands, RSI and Stochastic
16# Bollinger Bands with ADX, RSI and Two MA
17# Bollinger Bands with Equidistant Channel
18# Bollinger Bands and RSI Divergence
20# Bollinger Bands and Stochastic
21# Bollinger Bands and SVE Bollinger Bands Trading System
22# Bollinger Bands, MACD and EMA
23# Bollinger Bands and CCI Reversal Trading System
25# Bolllinger Bands Forex Swing Trading
26#Bollinger Bands Scalping System
27# Bollinger Bands Divergence
28# Bollinger Bands Overbought and Oversold
29# Bollinger Band Trading in Trend Trading System
30# Bollinger Bands and CCI Divergence Trading System
31# Bollinger Bands Squeeze Reversal System
32# MA Bollinger Bands Trading
33# Bollinger Bands with grid martingale
35# Reversal Trading Strategy Using Bollinger Bands and Chandelier Exit
36# Momentum Reversal with Bollinger Bands Strategy
37# Bollinger Bands with fast RSI
38# Wilder's RSI Band Breakout
39# CCI with Bollinger Bands Bounce
40# Bollinger Bands with Supertrend
41# DZ TDI RSI with Bollinger Bands
42# Bollinger Bands Montecarlo
43# Bollinger Bands Scientific Trading
44# Bollinger Bands, MA, MACD Reversal
45# Illuminated Bands Forex Strategy
46# Bollinger Bands MTF alerts
48# Double Bollinger Bands Price Action with MACD
49# Bollinger Bands with RSI OB-OV
50# Best Bollinger Bands Reversal
51# Three Bollineger Bands for Cryptocurrencies (TradingView).
