Bollinger Band alerts

Get a message when a coin's close breaks out of its Bollinger Bands (20, 2), above the upper band or below the lower, or when the bands squeeze to their narrowest in 50 candles, on the timeframe you trade.

Timeframes: 1m to 4h
Exchanges: 6
Checked: Every minute
Price: Free

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Set a Bollinger Band alert

The form you get in the app: pick the coin and the timeframe, choose a band breakout or a squeeze, and for a breakout the band. The Market view draws the bands as the alert reads them.

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Bollinger alerts

Get notified when a coin's close breaks out of its Bollinger Bands (20, 2), or the bands squeeze.

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Set your conditions

Market

BTCBinanceBTCUSDTUSDT

Timeframe

Market view

BTC / USDT · Binance Spot · 1h

Close vs upper band: −0.31%last closed candle
Upper band: 74,224.56USDT
Price: 73,992.38USDT

Upper band (20, 2)
Lower band
Middle (SMA 20)

The alert checks once a minute, on the last closed 1-hour candle. The candle still forming can change until it closes, so it doesn’t count until then. Bands (20, 2) are computed as the alert does (population standard deviation of closes); a breakout is a close outside its own candle's band after one inside, and arrows replay past ones on each candle as stored.

Last candle closed 12:00 UTC

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Trigger

Alert type

Band breakoutSqueeze

Standard Bollinger Bands (20, 2).Now Close vs upper band −0.31% · last closed candle

Direction

Upper band (bullish) Lower band (bearish)

Delivery

Notification channel

Cooldown

1 hour

Fires once per event, only on a newly-closed candle. A breakout needs the candle before it to close inside the band, so a run of closes outside it alerts once.

Disable after first trigger

Fires a single time, then turns itself off. Leave it off to keep it recurring.

Note

e.g. Take profit here. Move the stop to entry.

Optional: added to every notification this alert sends.

Notify me by email when BTCUSDT on Binance Spot has a price break above the upper Bollinger Band on the 1h timeframe.

Preview the message

CoinBeaconExample alert

Bollinger bullish: BTCUSDT on Binance (1h)

price broke above the upper Bollinger Band (20, 2)

Timeframe 1h

Just now · via Email

An illustration of the message format, not a live alert.

Your alert keeps watching after you close this page.

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The in-app builder with the settings it opens on. The candles, the bands and the reading beside the trigger are a live read of the last 120 closed 1-hour candles of BTC/USDT on Binance.

What fires a Bollinger alert

The check runs every minute on the newest closed candle of your timeframe. A candle still forming never counts.

Band breakout ▲ Upper band (bullish)
The previous close was at or below its upper band and the newest close is above the upper band.
Band breakout ▼ Lower band (bearish)
The previous close was at or above its lower band and the newest close is below the lower band.
Squeeze
The band width, the upper band minus the lower over the middle, is lower than at any point in the 50 candles before.

Settings

Bands: 20-period simple average, 2 standard deviations of closes
Squeeze: A new low in band width over the last 50 candles
Timeframe: 1m, 3m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h or 4h. Default 1h

The message, and when it comes again

It fires once per event, at most once per candle. A breakout needs the candle before it to close inside the band, so a run of closes outside it alerts once. Each candle that sets a new 50-candle width low is a squeeze event, so a tightening streak can alert on consecutive candles.

Turn on Disable after first trigger for a one-time alert: it fires once, then turns itself off. To watch every coin on an exchange, or the coins in your watchlists, use the Bollinger scanner in Scan All Coins.

The message, with the form's defaults

Bollinger bullish: BTCUSDT on Binance (1h)

Signal: price broke above the upper Bollinger Band (20, 2)
Timeframe: 1h

By email, push notification, Telegram, Discord, Slack or webhook, the channel you pick.

Bollinger Band alerts FAQ

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What is a Bollinger Band squeeze?

The bands narrow when price moves less, and a squeeze is the narrowest they have been in a while: here, a band width lower than at any point in the previous 50 candles. It marks low volatility, not a direction.

Does a close outside the band keep sending alerts?

No. A breakout needs the candle before it to have closed inside the band, so a run of closes above the upper band sends one message.

Can I change the period or the standard deviations?

No. The alert uses the standard Bollinger Bands (20, 2) on closes, the setting the form names, and a 50-candle window for the squeeze.

Which timeframes and exchanges can a Bollinger alert use?

1m, 3m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h or 4h, on Binance Spot, Binance Futures, OKX Futures, Bybit Futures, Gate.io Futures or HTX Futures. Each alert reads the candles of the one market you pick.

Can one Bollinger alert watch many coins?

A Bollinger alert watches one coin. To watch every coin on an exchange, or the coins in your watchlists, use the Bollinger scanner under Scan All Coins.

Are Bollinger alerts free?

Yes. The free plan includes Bollinger alerts, with 5 active alerts and 10 notifications a day across all of them, by email, push notification, Telegram, Discord, Slack or webhook. No card is needed.