Bollinger Bands™ Love Futures

Bollinger Bands™ Love Futures

June 23, 2023

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This week we’re acting like idiots.

Instead of trying to fail fast like the uber-successful do, we’re trying to succeed.

Crazy, I know.

In our last Newsletter, we used a timeless methodology (trend following) combined with a timeless indictor (Bollinger Bands™). It worked well on a 30M chart on the GBPJPY.

Would it work in Futures?

Let’s find out.

The 30M Dow Jones (YM.D) BB Long-Only Strategy

  • Long Entry: Go Long on a close above the Upper Band (20 Length/Std Dev 2.2)
  • Target: $900
  • Stop: $800

That seems very similar to our GJPY strategy. Did it work?

Here’s the Curve from 2002-2023 trading 1 contract each time:


Well, that doesn’t fail fast.

Does that mean we failed?

Here’s the Report:

And, just for fun, what happens if we put the exact same system on an AAPL 30M chart trading $10k of stock each time?


That didn’t fail fast either.

This whole week has been a waste of time.

Talk to you soon.

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