Hello Folks,
I`d like to share with you one of my forex trading strategy.
Forex Strategy: Bollinger Bands and Fractals
As a novice trader you see so many trading indicators and systems that you can easily get lost. If you browse the Internet or read some eBooks and guides, you can get buried in information about the Stochastic Oscillator, MACD, Elliot Waves and many more. But wait a minute, is it true, are they all profitable, what are the odds? Do you think that the editors of this department actually use them?
The strategy is very simple; we already know from the Bollinger Bands webpage that when the price closes above the upper band or below the bottom band, then we have a trading signal. This is the first signal. Earlier we said that this is our conservative strategy, so we have to wait for a second trading signal. When the next candlestick closes and a fractal shows above or below the previous one, this is our second trading signal. Basically, if the price closes above the upper band and we see a bearish fractal, we open a sell order and put the stop loss above the last fractal (see image for better illustration). The process is identical, if the price is below the lower band and the fractal is bullish. Our target is the middle Bollinger Bands line and most often we are looking at something around 25 - 30 pips.