Bollinger Bands and the Coast to Coast Move

24 Mar 2017

One of my favorite uses of Bollinger Bands is to participate in what I call a 'Coast to Coast' trade. This is when price breaks from one of the outside Bollinger Bands and then reverses and moves towards the opposite Bollinger Band. Along the way to completing the opposite tag, price will often react off the 21 day moving average. You can clearly see that on the chart below. After the first tag of the 21 day moving average, price re-bounded and instead of moving towards the other outside Bollinger Band, continued and hit the upper Bollinger Band a second time. And then, a week or so later, price once again rebounded of the 21 day moving average and reversed to hit the outer Bollinger Band one last time.

After the third hit of the outer Bollinger Band, price did correct and quite quickly hit the opposite band. That sell off seemed to be enough to propel price back up. Also you can see that one both the last move down and the current move up that price didn't even pause at the 21 day moving average.

If you study historical price action off the outer Bollinger Bands, you'll see that 3 tags of one band is pretty much the max. When I see that, I do think counter trend. In this case that was confirmed by the haDeltas both turning red.

Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only. Please trade at your own risk.