Bollinger Bands Strategy
- How Bollinger Bands Works
- Bollinger Bands Market Volatility Analysis
- Bollinger Bands Bulge and Squeeze
- Bollinger Bands Trading Price Action in Trends
- Bollinger Bands Trading Price Action in Range
- Bollinger Bands and Trend Reversals
- Bollinger Bands Trading Strategy Summary
Bollinger Bands Technical Indicator Strategy
Bollinger Bands indicator acts as a measure of volatility. Bollinger Bands indicator is a price overlay indicator.
Bollinger Bands indicator consists of three lines or bands: the middle band (moving average), an upper band a lower band. These 3 bands will enclose the price and the price action will move within these three bollinger bands.
Bollinger Bands indicator forms upper & lower bands around a moving average. Default moving average for bollinger bands indicator is the 20-SMA. Bollinger Band commodity indicator use the concept of standard deviationss to form their upper & lower Bands.
The example of Bollinger Bands indicator is shown below.
Bollinger Band Indicator - How to Trade Commodity with Bollinger Band Strategy Method
Because standard deviation is a measure of price volatility and volatility of the commodity market is dynamic, the commodity bollinger bands keep adjusting their width. Higher price volatility means higher standard deviation and the more the bollinger bands widen. Low price volatility means the standard deviation is lower and the bollinger bands contract.
Bollinger Bands forex indicator use price action to give a large amount of price action movement information. The price information given by the this bollinger bands indicator includes:
- Periods of low volatility- consolidation phase of the trading market.
- Periods of high volatility - extended trends, trending trading markets.
- Support and resistance levels of the price.
- Buy and Sell points of the price.