The Bollinger Bands indicator is a technical tool that helps you identify overbought or oversold conditions for a currency or stock, and know when a price explosion may occur.
🧠 Indicator components:
1. Middle Band:
Simple Moving Average (SMA) for a period of 20 typically.
2. Upper Band:
= SMA + (2 × Standard Deviation).
3. Lower Band:
= SMA - (2 × Standard Deviation).
🎯 How to use it in trading:
1. Buy from the lower band
If the price touches the lower band, it often indicates an oversold condition → Buying opportunity.
2. Sell from the upper band
If the price touches the upper band, it often indicates an overbought condition → Selling or profit-taking opportunity.
3. Price explosion (Bollinger Squeeze)
When the bands come close together and the range narrows → Quiet market.
After that, a strong price explosion often occurs either upward or downward.
4. Confirmation with other indicators
It is preferable to use it with RSI or MACD to confirm signals.
📌 Practical example:
On a 4-hour chart:
The price touched the lower band.
RSI below 30. → Buy entry, with the target being a return to the middle band or the upper band.