FOREX THEORY


Bollinger Bands in a Trending Market

One tool that is often used for range-bound strategies can also be helpful in trend discovery. We’re talking about Bollinger bands or just Bands.

One thing you should know about trends is that they are actually quite rare. Contrary to what you might think, prices really range 70-80 percent of the time. In other words, it is the norm for price to range.

So, if prices deviate from the “norm” then they must be in a trend right? What is one of the best technical tools we have mentioned in the previous grades that measure deviation?

If you said a ruler, we give you mad props for effort.

If you said Bollinger bands, we’ll give you cyber milk and cookies! Here, take some.




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