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It says under uses,
"Other traders buy when price breaks above the upper Bollinger Band or sell when price falls below the lower Bollinger Band."
No one buys high and sells low intentionally. Perhaps the original content was trying to explain the short selling technique, at which event, it should state something like,
"Other traders sell short when price breaks above the upper Bollinger Band and settles the short position (or buys the long position to close out the short position) when price falls below the lower Bollinger Band. And yet other traders will just ride the price movements all through the band from the bottom of the band to the top."
-- 75.43.36.78 ( talk) 06:53, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
It seems like every reference on the Internet to Bollinger bands has a "®" sign. Is this just a marketing ploy, or should the Wikipedia page also display it? 129.180.137.98 ( talk) 09:22, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
I reverted the deletion by /info/en/?search=User:Isambard_Kingdom and corrected the broken citation. This is an important use of Bollinger Bands outside of finance that was published in a peer-reviewed journal. John Bollinger, CFA, CMT ( talk) 18:08, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
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It says under uses,
"Other traders buy when price breaks above the upper Bollinger Band or sell when price falls below the lower Bollinger Band."
No one buys high and sells low intentionally. Perhaps the original content was trying to explain the short selling technique, at which event, it should state something like,
"Other traders sell short when price breaks above the upper Bollinger Band and settles the short position (or buys the long position to close out the short position) when price falls below the lower Bollinger Band. And yet other traders will just ride the price movements all through the band from the bottom of the band to the top."
-- 75.43.36.78 ( talk) 06:53, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
It seems like every reference on the Internet to Bollinger bands has a "®" sign. Is this just a marketing ploy, or should the Wikipedia page also display it? 129.180.137.98 ( talk) 09:22, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
I reverted the deletion by /info/en/?search=User:Isambard_Kingdom and corrected the broken citation. This is an important use of Bollinger Bands outside of finance that was published in a peer-reviewed journal. John Bollinger, CFA, CMT ( talk) 18:08, 10 October 2015 (UTC)