I won't quote you, Sal, when discussing TA or SPY matters.
To everyone else that cares, cup and handle in the works from 11AM on SPY, line at 70.80
Edit: intercepted by Geithner...
As a relatively newcomer to this thread, I find the real-time commentary by most active posters here highly valuable. Quite often I had to (and still occasionally have to) look up terminology and track references to trading rules discussed here. I realize there's immense information still to be...
I would think Bollinger would be equally useful regardless of the direction of the trend. I typically use daily rather than long intraday bands. What length have you found to be useful with intraday bands?
If I could only incorporate the memo in a quantifiable manner into my system... that is of course also the challenge with incorporating other elements that help with identifying reversals, such as R/S, gaps, patterns (e.g. dragon failure), etc.
I look at bollinger bands merely as a "trailing" confidence zone which has statistical significance but little predictive value for any "specific" future price. It's based on standard deviation and normal distribution around a mean (e.g. ~68% for 1 sigma, ~95% for 2 sigma, etc). Prices are not...