Bollinger Bands
Indicators I
Volatility envelopes
A 20 SMA ± 2 standard deviations. Price touches bands in normal action, so touches are NOT signals alone. The squeeze (bands pinching) is the real tell: quiet markets precede loud ones.
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Tight, pinching Bollinger Bands signal…
- Time to sleep
- A volatility expansion is loading correct
- A guaranteed rally
Volatility is cyclical. Compression stores the energy the breakout spends. Direction TBD.
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