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Technical analysisIntermediate

Bollinger Bands

Bollinger Bands are a volatility envelope drawn around a moving average: a middle band, typically a 20-period simple moving average, with an upper and a lower band set a chosen number of standard deviations away, usually two. They were developed by John Bollinger.