{"id":8149,"date":"2021-04-28T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roboforex.com\/blog\/?p=8149"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:55:57","slug":"how-to-use-bollinger-strategy-for-trading-in-forex-stocks-and-futures-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roboforex.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/28\/how-to-use-bollinger-strategy-for-trading-in-forex-stocks-and-futures-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Bollinger Strategy for Trading in Forex, Stocks, and Futures Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Among the most popular indicators<\/a> for stock trading, there are the Bollinger Bands<\/a>. They are very sensitive to market volatility<\/a> and might act as not only support\/resistance levels but as target levels as well. The Bollinger strategy<\/strong> is based exactly on these peculiarities of the indicator. It is applicable to periods from M1 to MN, for any instrument in Forex<\/a>, stock, or futures markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>A signal to buy by the strategy<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To use the strategy, you need two price charts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The first one reflects your working timeframe<\/a>.
2. The second one represents a TF 3-5 times larger than your working TF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, the strategy can be used with such pairs of TFs as MN and W1; W1 and D1; D1 plus H4; H4 plus H1; H1 and M15; М15 plus М5; М5 and М1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The efficacy of the Bollinger strategy on timeframes<\/a> smaller than H1 depends on the size of the spread in your instrument. For a signal to buy to appear, the following conditions must be fulfilled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n