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I’m having trouble understanding what the purpose of mean, standard deviations are. For instance they are used in Bollinger Bands.

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Bollinger Band vs Standard Deviation?

by admin on November 20, 2009

jUsT`zH asked:


Will it be better to trade using bollinger bands or stdev?

What do i mean by stdev?

I run an historical analysis to find out the stdev of the CHANGES in the spot price. Whenever the stdev falls outside 2 stdev, I will hit the trade.

For the bollinger band, whenever it falls outside the bands, i will trade.

My question is, is there a difference(i think there is) and what is the difference?

Which method is better? and why?
One method shows the stdev of the changes in spotprice, while the other shows the stdev of the spotprice itself.

Fundamentally, which one is better to use to trade?

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