Bollinger on Bollinger Bands / Edition 1

by John Bollinger

Overview

John Bollinger is a giant in today’s trading community. His Bollinger Bands sharpen the sensitivity of fixed indicators, allowing them to more precisely reflect a market’s volatility. By more accurately indicating the existing market environment, they are seen by many as today’s standard—and most reliable—tool for plotting expected price action.

Now, in Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, Bollinger himself explains how to use this extraordinary technique to compare price and indicator action and make sound, sensible, and profitable trading decisions.

Concise, straightforward, and filled with instructive charts and graphs, this remarkable book will be essential reading for all serious traders, regardless of market. Bollinger includes his simple system for implementation, and techniques for combining bands and indicators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071373685
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	07/27/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

John Bollinger is president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, an investment management company that provides technically driven money management services to individuals, corporations, trusts, and retirement plans. Bollinger publishes Capital Growth Letter and provides weekly commentary and analysis on CNBC, and was for years the chief market analyst on Financial News Network. He is both a frequent contributor as well as a featured expert for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.

Table of Contents

Part I In the Beginning
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Raw Materials
Chapter 3 Time Frames
Chapter 4 Continuous Advice
Chapter 5 Be Your Own Master
Part II The Basics
Chapter 6 History
Chapter 7 Construction
Chapter 8 Bollinger Band Indicators
Chapter 9 Statistics
Part III Bollinger Bands on their Own
Chapter 10 Pattern Recognition
Chapter 11 Five-Point Patterns
Chapter 12 W-Type Bottoms
Chapter 13 M-Type Tops
Chapter 14 Walking the Bands
Chapter 15 The Squeeze
Chapter 16 Method I: Volatility Breakout
Part IV Bollinger Bands With Indicators
Chapter 17 Bollinger Bands and Indicators
Chapter 18 Volume Indicators
Chapter 19 Method II: Trend Following
Chapter 20 Method III: Reversals
Part V Advanced Topics
Chapter 21 Normalizing Indicators
Chapter 22 Day Trading
Part VI Summing Up
15 Basic Rules
Wrapping It Up
Endnotes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About The Author