Bollinger Bands is an indicator that was developed by John Bollinger to generate oversold or overbought signals.
Three lines compose Bollinger Bands: A simple moving average, (middle band), and an upper and lower band.
When the price continually touches the upper Bollinger Band, it can indicate an overbought signal.
And, if the price continually touches the lower band it can indicate an oversold signal.
📍Bollinger Band Squeeze breakout strategy
When the price consolidates within a small range, Bollinger's band becomes squeezed. After the BB squeeze breakout, the price normally moves quickly in the same direction as the breakout.
In the image below, we can see BB becomes flat and then after BB breakout, we can see a huge upside rally as marked by the yellow arrow in the image below.
📍Candle outside Bollinger Band
When a candle's open, close, high and low are outside BB, we can expect a reversal from that position.
When a candle's (rectangle box) OHLC is outside lower BB, we can see an upside movement as marked by the yellow arrow in the image below.
When a candle's(Rectangle box) OHLC is outside the upper Bollinger band, we can see a downside move as marked by the yellow arrow in the image below.
Higher the timeframe, the better the result.
📍Bollinger Band trap strategy
This strategy works well in a sideways market
If price is moving in a range and then a sudden downfall happens and the candle closes outside BB and immediately a bullish candle forms, then we can expect an upmove as shown in the image below.
📍Bollinger band + Divergence
When there is a bullish divergence at the lower Bollinger band, the price will reverse and move upside as shown in the image below by the yellow arrow.
On the other hand, when there is a bearish divergence at the upper Bollinger band, the price will reverse and move downside as shown in the image below by the yellow arrow.
Higher the timeframe, the better the result.
📍Bollinger Band Expiry strategy
On expiry day, look for a 30-40 Rs premium on the options chart. If Bollinger band becomes flat and gives breakout after 1:30, take entry with 20 points Stop loss.
📍Bollinger Band + Vwap + RSI intraday strategy
When BB becomes flat, it indicates strong movement is coming. After upper BB breakout with RSI above 60 and candle open and close above Vwap, we can see a quick upside movement as shown in the image below by the yellow arrow.
In the image below, we can see a flat Bollinger band and after the Lower Bollinger breakout with RSI below 40 and the candle's open and close below vwap, we can see a downside move as marked by the yellow arrow.
Timeframe- 15 min
📍Bollinger Band scalping strategy 1
In a sideways market, scalping can be done at the upper and lower Bollinger band for 30-40 points in bank nifty.
At upper Bollinger, buy PE and at lower Bollinger band, buy CE.
Timeframe- 3 mins.
📍Bollinger band scalping strategy 2
When a shooting star candle forms at Upper Bollinger band, we can see a downward movement as shown in the below image.
Works better in a sideways market.
📍Bollinger Band scalping strategy 3
When a hammer candle forms at the lower Bollinger band, we can see an upside movement as shown in the below image.
Works better in a sideways market.
📍Other uses of Bollinger band.
• BB acts as Support and Resistance. Especially works at classic support and resistance.
• When BB is parallel, price is less unlikely to stay outside BB. Buy at LBB and sell at UBB. BB becomes parallel usually after a big uptrend or downtrend.
• Two candle pattern Engulfing/ Tweezer bottom at Lower Bollinger band is a bullish signal. Engulfing/Tweezer top at Upper Bollinger band is a bearish signal.
The Central Pivot Range is widely known as CPR. Traders can use it for intraday, swing, or positional trading
The CPR levels help traders to foresee the movements in stock prices & to predict the trend and also provide us with major support and resistance levels
📍How is CPR calculated?
The three levels of the CPR indicator and the formula for calculating them are listed below.
Pivot point = (High + Low + Close) / 3
Top Central Pivot Point (TC) = (Pivot – BC) + Pivot
Bottom Central Pivot Point (BC) = (High + Low) / 2