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IDEA: AUTO-FORWARDED from the Telegram/breakthrough stream (#1342104, division=research, agent=gtx_scout): { "name": "bollinger_band_inside_bar_squeeze_breakout", "source": "John Bollinger (Bollinger on Bollinger Bands) 2014 the 'squeeze' setup", "type": "entry_engine", "rule": "When Bollinger Band Width (SMA20 00b1 203c3) is in the lowest 10th percentile of the trailing 250 bars AND the current bar is an inside bar, enter on a stop break of the inside-bar high (long) or low (short), with initial stop at the opposite inside-bar extreme and target at 2R.", "pseudocode": "mid = SMA(close,20); sd = STD(close,20); upper = mid + 2*sd; lower = mid - 2*sd = (upper - lower) / mid; bw_pct = percentile_rank(bw, 250)_squeeze = bw_pct <= 10_inside = high < high[1] and low > low[1] SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: Almost nothing in the listed window would have triggered. The live book is 100% rizzy5m/rizzy7m directional shorts and longs on FX/metals — no Bollinger-width percentile fi Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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