Forex Swing Profit

Scalping With Ease

Forex scalping has gained high popularity nowadays. You are welcome to explore the Bollinger bands of Forex scalping strategies and ideas! True scalping involves risk as well as any other type of trading. If done correctly Forex scalping provides an additional degree of risk management as a result of holding trading positions for a very short period as well as constant monitoring of the price and collecting quick profits as they appear. Forex scalping systems if used will assume the trader’s own risk and full responsibility. Scalping Forex is fun. Learn it and trade profitably!

Bollinger Bands

Bollinger Bands are a technical trading tool created by John Bollinger in the early 1980s. They arose from the need for adaptive trading bands and the observation that volatility was dynamic, not static as was widely believed at the time. The purpose of Bollinger Bands is to provide a relative definition of high and low. By definition, prices are high at the upper band and low at the lower band. This definition can aid in rigorous pattern recognition and is useful in comparing price action to the action of indicators to arrive at systematic trading decisions.

Bollinger Bands consists of a set of three curves drawn concerning securities prices. The middle band is a measure of the intermediate-term trend, usually a simple moving average, that serves as the base for the upper band and lower band. The interval between the upper and lower bands and the middle band is determined by volatility, typically the standard deviation of the same data that were used for the average. The default parameters, 20 periods, and two standard deviations may be adjusted to suit your purposes.

Scalping with the help of Bollinger Bands (BB)

Bollinger Bands can help to identify trends and especially upcoming trend reversals. When the market price moves outside the Bollinger Band it could be validated as a higher probability of continuation of the current trend, while tops and bottoms of BB in a sideways market reappraise an upcoming trend reversal. Prices tend to go down at the top and move at the bottom upwards.

Practical needs
If trading at M1 or M5 you need Bollinger Bands with (20/2) settings. This trading idea can be traded on the H1 or H4 time frame too. 😉

Chart with Bollinger Bands (20/2), see below :

When this happens, a trend will either make a pullback or reverse. One idea that helps to classify market behavior into phases There are two Bollinger Bands on the chart. BBands (Perios 20, deviation 1) & BBands (Period 20, deviation 2)

When prices stay inside BB (20, 1) there is no clear trend. To take trades inside the Deviation-1-Line is risky. Once the market price gets outside Deviation-1-Line (dotted purple lines) – there are the best practical means of a trend starting. If market prices are running between Deviation-1-line and Deviation-2-Line of Bbands you can say: „There is a trend in place“ and advantageous terms to hold onto your trade until it remains inside this trending area.

When prices hit Deviation-2-Line and close outside it and the trade has got some positive pips it is time to lock the profit or bring in a trailing stop right behind the most recent candle and chase it with each new candle.

Closing Remarks

Bollinger Bands alone, or ADX, or RSI, etc. can’t provide a consistently winning solution. So it would be better to call it “trading ideas“ not, “trading system“.

Usually, I add Bollinger bands using period 20 and deviation 3 to entry with extreme money management. I added zig-zag too, so if at least 2 zig zag with periods 100 and 200 have a breakout with these Bollinger bands that’s an accurate signal to entry. Here is my template that you can download and test on the demo first. Another High Accuracy Scalping Forex With Bollinger Bands Combined with Moving Average Trading Template can be downloaded here. Very easy forex scalping strategy that ever had.