for short term/scalping, like those retraces when it chops, say in downtrend, it retraces higher before it continues downtrend. may be, I should call something else, not counter trend
TradeChartPatterns.com - Check what this guy has to say about that . Scalping rule #1 is critical . I got a lot of faith in him and he wont steer you wrong ever .
UPDATED FEB 6 2010: v1.05 now includes Slope feature
(this is included in BMT Envelope Fib Bands)
The purpose of BMTCollectiveMA was to take the most commonly used moving averages and combine them into one. It is my belief that SMA 9, SMA 34, SMA 100, …
Attached is a screenshot showing an example of the double-bottom outside/inside the Bollinger bands. The black SMA (period 1) is showing the line-on-close so you can see the minor swings better. The Swing_temp indicator is shown which picks up the inside bottom where we finally have a move back to the 20SMA.
Unfortunately, this is a hand-picked screenshot with 20/20 hindsight. With this type of countertrend trade, you'd need plenty of screen time to practice entries for this. You can see by scrolling forward / backward through these types of trades that you'd need additional filters or ways to avoid chop or fake-outs.
Hope that helps.
Kirk
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in tranding days no indicator will help you but trend days is only less than 20% so if you want to try in rotational day you trade the extrimes of the range ,or extrim of valeu areas with market profile or something I like better the hi volume areas and the low volume areas using volume at price ....in this days Bolinger bands will work fine too.
In tren day you have to be with the trend...delta divergence and $tick divergence and all the others divergences will not work.
I see this one as contrary to choice 1, as it says sell, when it bar closed lower band as it breaks support and also buy when bar breaks upper band at his resistance and this is opposite to normal theory. any idea when we should be careful and use this?
look up "walking the bands" also as this would show you trending trades when it hits / closes outside the rising upper band but continues to follow the band.
I've yet to code a way to pick up the double-tops or -bottoms for the countertrend trading you're looking for. Maybe someone has a good strategy based on DT / DB entries that could use the BBands for confirmation and targets.
enjoy your studies!
Kirk
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