HOW TO TRADE WITH BB

Technical Classroom: How to trade volatility breakout with bollinger band When the Bollinger Bands is contracting it tells that the market is in a low volatility environment.. Moneycon

Technical Classroom: How

to trade volatility

breakout with bollinger

band

When the Bollinger Bands is contracting it tells that the market is in a low volatility environment The “Bollinger Squeeze” is termed when the bands squeeze together, it usually means that a breakout is getting ready to happen.

Moneycontrol Contributor

Shabbir Kayyumi

Bollinger Bands (BB) is a widely popular technical analysis tool created by John Bollinger a financial trader, analyst and teacher in the early 1980’s Bollinger

Bands is used to understand the price projection and volatility of any financial instrument or commodity

What is a ‘Bollinger Bands (BB)’?

Bollinger Bands is a versatile tool combining moving averages and standard

deviations and is one of the most popular technical analysis tools used to

understand volatility of the stock

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The purpose of Bollinger Bands is to provide a relative definition of high and low prices of a market By definition, prices are high at the upper band and low at the lower band

Construction of Bollinger Band (BB)

1) Components of Bollinger Band (BB)

There are three components to the Bollinger Band indicator:

• Moving Average: By default, a 20-period simple moving average (20 SMA) is used.

• Upper Band: The upper band is usually 2 standard deviations (calculated from 20-periods of closing data) above the moving average.

• Lower Band: The lower band is usually 2 standard deviations below the moving average

2) Calculations

Underlying calculations of BB are quite simple, it is based on moving average & standard deviation

Feature & Importance of Bollinger Band (BB)

• The indicator forms a channel around the price movements of an asset The channels are based on standard deviations and the moving average.

• Whenever price manages to close above upper band, it is called as positive volatility

breakout.

• A negative close below lower Bollinger band gives volatility breakout on the downside.

• The markets move from a period of high volatility to low volatility (and vice versa)

Volatility is a mean reverting parameter So the volatility band alternates between contraction

and expansion

• When the Bollinger Bands is contracting it tells that the market is in a low

volatility environment The “Bollinger Squeeze” is termed when the bands squeeze together, it usually means that a breakout is getting ready to happen

There are multiple uses for Bollinger Bands like

-• Bollinger bands can help establish a trend's direction

• Bollinger Band can spot potential reversals

• Bollinger Band can monitor volatility.

• Bollinger Band (BB) can be used to understand overbought and oversold trade signals

Technical indicators anything from a RSI to candlestick patterns can be used with

BB to help establish the trend direction The greater the number of positive

indications is for a trade, the greater the chances for success

Trading Technique:

Intraday trading using BB & EMA (Timeframe 5 minutes)

Buying

1 Price should be trading above EMA (89, HIGH).

2 Prices should close above BB upper band.

3 Keep Trail stop loss to 20 SMA

1 Price should be trading below EMA (89, LOW).

2 Prices should close below BB lower band.

3 Trail stop loss to 20 SMA

Traders should use the BB breakouts in conjunction with other technical indicators

to maximize their odds of success

(The author is Head - Technical & Derivative Research at Narnolia Financial Advisors)

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First Published on Mar 23, 2019 09:00 am