The Bollinger Band Breakout Strategy uses volatility and prior swing highs and lows for trading opportunities. John Bollinger created these bands that uses a moving average and standard deviation from that moving average.  It is commonly used as an oversold and overbought technical analysis indicator.  We will be using oversold and overbought as signs of

Going into next week, you will hear a lot of talk about the 50-period simple moving average coming into play as support on SPY. We joined the talk in an article yesterday as we explained how big of a support level this was. It has held as support 10 times already this year. Price has

The first 9 months of this year have provided one of the most forgiving markets that traders have ever seen. Every dip has been bought up almost immediately and as a result stocks have spent most of the year grinding towards all-time highs. However, over the last 2 weeks we have started to see a

Momentum traders look for price movement that is heading for higher prices in a bull market, and lower prices in a bear market. The question becomes:  “How do you know price is about to set up momentum trades?” The easiest way is to find an instrument such as a stock that is in a consolidation