Bollinger Bands; Key to boost your profitThe Bollinger Bands indicator is one of the popular technical analysis tools used in Forex trading. Here are some ways you can use Bollinger Bands in Forex trading:
Identifying support and resistance levels
The Bollinger Bands indicator can help you identify support and resistance levels. If the price of a currency pair approaches the lower line of the Bollinger Bands, this may suggest that it is a support level. On the other hand, when the price approaches the upper line, it may suggest that it is a resistance level. You can then look for confirmation of these levels using other indicators or technical analysis methods to decide whether to enter a long or short position.
Identifying trends
The Bollinger Bands indicator can also help you identify trends. If the price of a currency pair exceeds the upper line of the Bollinger Bands, it means that the uptrend will continue, and if the price falls below the lower line, the downtrend will continue. Then you can look for confirmation with other indicators or technical analysis methods to decide whether to enter a long or short position.
Price fluctuation analysis
The Bollinger Bands indicator can also help you analyze price fluctuations. When the prices of a currency pair are close to the lower Bollinger Bands line, it means that the currency pair is undervalued, so you can consider buying. On the other hand, when prices are near the upper line of the Bollinger Bands, it means that the currency pair is overvalued, so you can consider selling.
Detecting periods of volatility
The Bollinger Bands indicator can also help detect periods of volatility. When the Bollinger Bands lines are narrowed, it means that the currency pair is in a period of low volatility, so this may suggest that the following trend or price movement may be sharp. On the other hand, when the lines are widened, it means that the currency pair is in a period of high volatility, so the price movement may be more stable.
In conclusion, the Bollinger Bands indicator can be a useful tool in Forex technical analysis. It can help identify support and resistance levels, identify trends, analyze.
At Manticore investments we use it in conjunction with Haiken Ashi candles and RSI in our scalping - swing strategy. This combination allows us to more effectively read the supports and resistances of the bollinger bands and whether the price will break through them or not.
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Bed Bath and Beyond - Buy the Uncanny Valley and Delete RedditOne of the first things you might ask yourself with this call is "How did a bull get stuck in a washer and dryer?"
The people who look more closely might ask "Why is this bull living out of a washer and a dryer?"
The short answer to both of these questions is that the dude listened to Reddit.
I say this in every post about memestocks, but Reddit isn't your friend. It isn't even social media. It's a social marketing and social influencing website masquerading as an organically-created and consensus-driven forum.
Moreover, the Chinese Communist Party's Tencent took a big stake in it many years ago and it spreads all the worst trash of Marxist-Leninsm.
Perhaps if Reddit had have collapsed in bankruptcy then the future would have been a lot brighter for several million young people. Too late for crying now, though.
Scrolling through Reddit is the intellectual equivalent of eating eight or nine bags of potato chips everyday and then complaining that you're fat and girls don't want to marry you.
There are two things Reddit is there for when it comes to trading. One is to condition you to feel that losing money, and a lot of it, is both normal and okay.
It's not.
If you're losing money trading, then you need to fix something, and fast, or just take your money and go buy yourself something nice with it, because you're obviously just gambling and are missing something fundamental in both your understanding and execution.
Wanting to get rich, and quick, will do that.
The second thing Reddit is there for is to indoctrinate your mind with pornography, socialism, Marxism, and atheism, and it happens all while you think you're reading the words and feelings of other people who are just like you.
But they're not just like you. They're not even people.
They're "professional" community organizers who are sitting in a cubicle referencing a flowchart pinned to its grey cushions collecting their $16 an hour and you can't figure it out because they told you that the very idea is a "conspiracy theory."
Bed Bath is this company that sucks and is going bankrupt. Don't believe it? Just go to a store and ask yourself why you're there instead of on Amazon on your phone.
That didn't stop BBBY from yielding 4 and 5 baggers if you happened to buy the bottom and sell the top (you didn't, Ken Griffin's trading desk did, though), and that's exactly the issue.
So the story with BBBY is that Hudson Bay Capital and a bunch of other Wall Street money effectively put a $1 billion blood infusion into Bed Bath. This comes in the form of some convertible preferred stock that has a profitable floor of about 71 cents and a ceiling of about $3.61, according to Bloomberg .
What's 500% among friends? That's what I always say.
So, taking a look at Reddit, there's two really notable things on this stock:
1) In the last two weeks there's almost a total blackout on BBBY from the WallStreetBets pump-and-dump-to-dumb-money brigade.
2) The Bed Bath subreddit has desperate bulls looking for the "MOASS" (Mother of All Short Squeezes), despite it already doing it twice in quick succession (lol, shows you their entry is higher than $5 and $7, doesn't it?), and telling each other to quickly "DRS" (Direct Register, AKA put your BBBY in an off-exchange personal wallet) in an attempt to mess with the float to manipulate Hudson's equity position on their convertible contracts.
After thinking about it for a while, I believe the blackout on BBBY on WSB is because the idea is to not attract the attention of retail buyers to the stock now that "everyone knows" BBBY is going bankrupt.
In other words, the PR company and the people who pay the PR company, who manage Reddit's trading forums, don't want people to buy cheap.
The BBBY forum is acting as mentally ill as it is because bag holders are feeling desperate and dosing a heavy stimpak of hopium.
All of this leads us to believe that, despite the reversal pattern that the short-dumpster to $7 produced, a new all time low is incoming.
After all, Hudson's risk is profitable above 71 cents, Bloomberg says. The ATL is 88 cents. This is 20%, by the way, and 20% is a lot. If you got a 20% move on the Nasdaq while holding a QQQ call you'd make like $4,000 a contract.
The thing to understand is that smart money isn't like you are, who is eternally unhedged and emotionally unstable. Hudson is hedged and really couldn't care less if BBBY goes under 71 cents for a few days because they'll just buy more. And they have a strategy to profit from the plummet in the meantime.
Of course they'll buy more. They obviously see a lot of upside to risk $1 billion on a bankrupt shitco retail chain that was trading at a 2-handle when they donated blood.
So, what kind of upside is there? Well, frankly speaking, the upside is this weird double top left at $30 during the RYAN F'IN COHEN pump and dump last year:
It might sound too good to be true, but look. BBBY short interest ending Jan. 13 and Jan. 31 are both twice as high as it was during the Cohen/Reddit retail rape.
Moreover, according to the most recent institutional holdings filings dated 12/31, only nobody firms sold out of BBBY.
While names like Bank of America and Barclays reduced their positions, bigger and more important names like Blackrock, Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, and Citadel increased their holdings.
Did they not know BBBY was on the verge of bankruptcy and stood to get delisted like Party City just did? Of course they knew. They know what comes three and six months from now, too.
A lot of the same big names decreased their holdings in Party City before the bankruptcy
Another key factor is at Friday's close Bed Bath is only worth like $211 million in market cap. Even a 20 bagger is only $4 billion. A 20 bagger from <$1 is only $2 billion in MCap.
For Bed Bath to go to $30 or $60 in the end requires some crazy fundamental thing, like perhaps Buy Buy Baby really does get split into its own stock, awarded to BBBY shareholders, and you get a Kodak 2020-style candle.
It's hard to say, but if you buy at 60 cents and it goes to $2.4 and you sell it all, who really cares?
Nobody except for Wall Street truly knows either what is going to happen or when it's going to happen.
But for now, it seems to me that the thing that will generate the most alpha for the MMs is to dump BBBY under its $0.88c ATL, probably while Nasdaq and the indexes feign beartown and volatility goes up.
This will cause capitulation from retail bag holders, because that's how retail does it, while the WSB brigade won't buy because they're not being told to buy.
Imo, this is the idea of everything going on right now.
So you can buy the really low prices. But there's a lot of risk. Maybe BBBY goes Chapter 11 and gets delisted and liquidated in receivership, though.
Life is hard and you lose a lot, no matter how you want to gain. You still lose a lot.
Buy a $0.6 handle and try to hold a winner to $30. I dare you.
Frankly speaking, holding a winner is really hard. In some ways it's a lot harder than holding a loser. The way to do it, though, is if you can bag some multiples, is to sell a portion equal to your risk and let the freeroll run until the entire market at large is showing the warning signs of a crash.
Then dump it all and never touch it again.
So, stay safe, lawyer up, hit the gym, and most importantly, delete Reddit.
$NOK swiss cheeseSo many gaps to fill with the NOK chart that it looks like swiss cheese! The past four earnings have resulted in stock price increase after earnings, I wouldn't enter this trade until the day or day before earnings. I'm looking for price to fall back to upper falling channel that was recently broke to test as new support. At this point, the elevate stock price should create a golden cross and with the catalyst of earnings, this stock should soar higher. Possibly breaking though the $5.10 resistance. Only time will tell. My entry point would be around $4.75 +/- 0.05. Looking forward to following this stock in the coming weeks. Much potential.
EWT: Triple Wave CorrectionNotice the recent highs, they have a need to "mother bar" past the Bollinger Bands to signal a higher swing zone. Elliott wave suggests waves move in five or three movement waves, I see two correction waves...the third should happen. In the recent median, the MAMA/FAMA remains open during the attempted bear move. The volume accumulated denoting support. It is not a big price movement for a third wave but it could yield 19% quickly on this trade. Strike the hammer to a third wave higher swing?
BTCUSDT !! My ideal BTC scenario for coming days and weeks. Hi dear community members and my loyal followers.
My updates for BTC current situation. As I posted earlier, BTC is repeating 2015 bear market bottoming structure I published in my previous analyses.
You can check the bellow attached analyses where I warned you about the recent dump after hitting 25K/swept previous swing high liquidity/:
I think BTC finished 1-5 bullish wave structure and now it is forming ABC correction structure before new highs.
More likely we'll see short term bounce from 19-19.5K zone to 23.5-24K zone/B wave/ and dump to 17.5-18.5k zone/ C wave/ creating new LH.
Even if in the worst case BTC dumped bellow 17.5-18.5K and drops to 14-15K zone, it will be super fast long wick bounce above 18.5K zone.
Would be great if BTC clears huge liquidity bellow 18.5K zone and bounce back. Let's thank BTC for its generosity coz it gave us last chance to buy lower prices before bull market starts. BTW I'm officially announcing all My analyses about BTC bottom have been published since June 2022 have been confirmed in February. There is super strong sign that not only BTC bottomed at 17.5K in June 2022/ a real bottom/ and 15.5K fake breakdown/spring-bear trap/ with double bottom but also BTC bull market has started. Later I will post about the most powerful confirmation.
As you see 17.5-18.5K is the strongest support zone/ there is BB, FVG zone, strong support & resistance zone, Wyckoff base & huge amount of BTC accumulation by whales.
Max pain will be stop loss hunt bellow 18.3-18.5K zone/liquidity sweep/ and strong bounce back. If my scenario plays out, BTC will from huge Inverse H&S pattern which I will post bellow this tweet.
Stay level headed, keep patience, close your eyes on Wars, high inflation, Recession, hiking rate and any kinds of FUD.
If you like my ideas, don't forget to like, follow and support. I'll appreciate any comment, likes and follow.
Don't forget to check my bellow analyses. Have a good day.
Trading BBTicker: BB
2023 Low: $3.31 (USD)
2023 High: $4.58
Current price: $4.37
The company recently reported nine new “design wins” in the automotive industry, and their QNX technology is now installed in more than 215 million vehicles worldwide, with Human Horizons deploying BlackBerry QNX technology for autonomous driving features in their HiPhi Z vehicle. Without a doubt, Blackberry has eyes firmly on innovation.
Trading BB requires a slightly deeper dive, but once you’ve identified and verified your source information, following Blackberry’s corporate reports and product releases is quite easy.
When making your fundamental analysis, consider comparing the automotive giants and their sales too. They are related, and a drop in auto volumes could affect the performance of Blackberry.
Sensitivity to sentiment is also an issue. Blackberry is a tech company at heart, and when the tech sector suffers, Blackberry gets dropped into that bearish basket.
When making technical analysis, consider using the Moving-Average Convergence/Divergence line (MACD). MACD will help you recognize trends and signal BB’s momentum.
The MACD line compares BB’s short-term and long-term momentum in order to estimate its future direction. Use the MACD to compare two moving averages at the same time. Set for any time period, but perhaps avoid using it for day trading. The 12-day and 26-day moving average are advised for BB.
Baltic Dry Index drops to 2020 levelsCoinciding with talks of recession, the Baltic Dry Index (which can be thought of as the cost of international shipping of primary goods and so an economic indicator) is approaching the lows seen during 2020. With a 60% drop left to the 1D Cosmic Channel Lite support and Cosmic Markers Lite not yet flashing the strongest support signals the prognosis is bearish with a potential reversal at 270.
META neutral near Cosmic Bands top1D price rose close to the max Cosmic Bands resistance, potentially forming a new Cosmic BB SR level. Statistically this would be a point of reversal but max resistance has not been reached on higher timeframes and it may be a good idea to wait for bearish confirmation.
Bitcoin above $70k resistance levelThe neat thing about Cosmic Flow is that is lets you use one MA period for the resistance and another one for the support. Here we used the HMA with 50 bar resistance and 100 bar support to recognize a repeating pattern on the 1W chart, in combination with the Cosmic BB SR indicator. While these two indicators show that the price is now more bullish than it was during the last $70k top in November 2021, the Cosmic Angle indicator is still showing a significant negative trajectory and is changing its angle at a very slow pace. This information suggests two likely effects: 1) a large and sudden bullish movement 2) a gradual reversion to the Cosmic Flow basis line.
USDJPY 1D neat forecastingBy combining the levels show by the 2 indicators Cosmic Flow and Cosmic BB SR it is possible to forecast the amount the price will drop (or rise) as shown with the vertical red arrows. The price is currently at a level it consecutively tested twice and were it to drop further a rough estimate for a short target using the current trajectory would be in the $125-126 region.
DXY major overlapping support targetThe 6h, 1h, and 15 minute timeframes show the next concentrated support to be at $100.7 (thick red line), while the next minor 1D timeframe support lies at $100.1. The price hovering below the current 6 hour Cosmic BB SR support suggests further downward momentum.
Can we add all the indicators to the same placeFor a multi-indicator user like me, it is very inconvenient to often have to turn off one indicator before turning on another. I'm wondering if it makes more sense to add all the indicators in the same script and display them all on the same chart window?
Let's see what happens next!At a current support zone right now. I can see a dump to the lower line first before a scalp-long plays out. Let us see.
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BB Looking Bullish At Support!BB is currently at support and it looking to move higher. Stop loss should be set below the support box which is a clear invalidation. ES1 & S&P500 are currently looking bearish on the higher TFs but a quick pump can happen before the higher TFs play out.
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Every day the charts provide new information. You have to adjust or get REKT.
Don't trade with what you're not willing to lose. Safe Trading, Calculate Your Risk/Reward & Collect!
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$BB Gets a Solid BounceI just thought this bounce at the 382 was interesting. After the market flushed, $BB bounced hard off the bottom of the rising wedge pattern. Assuming we're not going to see more downside more broadly tomorrow, I'd expect $BB to start moving back up--at least to the middle of the wedge. Just shy of $5 perhaps?
$BB Goes to $4.50?In my previous chart on $BB, I wondered if BB would pick a true direction in the coming session and speculated it would be another trend downward. Looks like I was right. I see two possible paths from here: (1) BB walks down to about $4.40 and then starts to move back up slow and steady to the middle or top of the broadening channel; Or, (2) we see a precipitous drop to about $4.20 and form a *spring* that leads to a significant bounce. I'm fine with either. I like cheap $BB shares.