| xplorer 257 posts
 msg #32032
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 | 5/11/2004 8:10:39 PM 
 I am trying in vain to develop a screen to find the charts that have the Bollinger bands converging ...and TIGHT !
 
 Any help is greatly appreciated !
 
 Thanks in ADVANCE !
 
 
 
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| yepher 359 posts
 msg #32060
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 | 5/13/2004 10:15:00 AM 
 This might get you close
 
 
 
 
 
 
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| xplorer 257 posts
 msg #32083
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 | 5/13/2004 10:12:40 PM 
 Thanks yepher ...
 
 ...sometimes yah just need another perspective.  You gave me what I needed !
 
 Much appreciated !
 
 
 
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| yepher 359 posts
 msg #32084
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 | 5/13/2004 11:48:17 PM 
 I am glad that it helped.
 
 I thought I had posted the text book form of all 4 bollinger methods but I could not find them. I will try and dig them up and post them here if I can figure out where they are.
 
 
 
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| xplorer 257 posts
 msg #32087
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 | 5/14/2004 6:35:54 AM 
 I beleive there is something wrong ...
 ... although the syntax is correct, and It is what I was looking for.
 
 by adding the "and bollinger(20) bands are converging" does not further refine the results.  I will log this as a bug.
 
 Thanks again !
 
 
 
 
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| xplorer 257 posts
 msg #32088
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 | 5/14/2004 6:49:08 AM 
 I reviewd the User manual to find the correct usage of the "converging" ... here it is :
 
 
 
 ... thanks again for getting me on the right track !
 
 
 
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| xplorer 257 posts
 msg #32089
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 | 5/14/2004 7:04:05 AM 
 So ... bringing it all together, this is what I have :
 
 
 
 
 The charts that is brings up are exactly what I needed... the "piss poor" market is swaying the back testing... but when the market turns, this filter will perform very well.  It does isolate the stocks consolidating prior to a breakout.  Perhaps further refinement, intigrating volume ??? or adding (if possible) "and the slope of RSI(10) of the NASDAQ is above 0"  ....
 
 
 
 
 
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| yepher 359 posts
 msg #32091
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 | 5/14/2004 11:14:58 AM 
 xplorer,
 
 Sorry for the logic/syntax error in the filter.
 
 Any one interested,
 
 Here are some filters I made while reading through the book "Bollinger on Bollinger Bands". These are the text book form of what is described in the book and website. I may have messed up the diveraging/converging here becuase I always do it the same way?!?
 
 
 Method I - Volatility Breakout
 (http://www.bollingeronbollingerbands.com/methods/)
 
 Description: Bollinger Width is at a 6 month Low
 
 
 
 
 Here is a variation I like because Bollinger Bands can spend a lot of
 time compressing:
 
 Description: Bollinger Width was at a 6 month Low and is now expanding
 
 
 
 
 
 Method II — Trend Following
 (http://www.bollingeronbollingerbands.com/methods/?method=2)
 
 I have chosen to use "Typical Price" that Bollinger describes in his
 book rather then the close price when calculating %B.
 
 Description: %B > .8 and MFI(10) > 80
 
 
 
 
 
 Here is the same filter but using Volume weighted MACD instead of MFI:
 
 
 
 
 Method III - Reversals
 (http://www.bollingeronbollingerbands.com/methods/?method=3)
 
 Sorry I lost this filter somewhere along the way :(  Metastock tends to show this filter as pretty good.
 
 
 Method IV - Confirmed Breakout
 (http://www.bollingeronbollingerbands.com/methods/?method=4)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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| Mactheriverrat 3,173 posts
 msg #99538
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 | 3/8/2011 1:13:09 AM 
 Method II — Trend Following
 
 Interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
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| Mactheriverrat 3,173 posts
 msg #114202
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 modified
 | 6/23/2013 2:14:14 PM 
 This Filter come's from a old SF posters called Yepher. He also has a external site that has a lot of SF filter tricks.
 See Method II — Trend Following  on Yepher's post.
 It's a very good trend finding filter minus the Bollinger stuff for playing off the  EMA(13) give or take a little on each side of the EMA(13) .
 
 Here's my version of Yepher's  Trend Following playing the EMA(13) with trends. You can always change the chart  time to how ever many months you want. I myself look using the biggest charts possible first then go on from there. One can always narrow there search by change  and price above ema(50) to and price above ema(13)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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