Keltner Bands XAUUSD Technical Analysis & Keltner Bands XAUUSD Signals

Created by Chester Keltner. Described in his book 'How to Make Money in Commodities'

Keltner Bands are based on ATR technical indicator, the bands use ATR values to draw the bands lines.

These Bands form Channels that help to spot the XAUUSD market trends using this simple volatility channel.

Keltner Bands

Construction

Keltner Channels are similar to Bollinger Bands except for the fact that Bollinger Bands use standard deviation method to determine market volatility & to draw the bands.

For the keltner bands instead of using the standard deviation the average true range (ATR) measure of volatility is used.

This xauusd indicator is an n number of periods exponential moving average of the closing gold price. These bands are created by

Adding (for the upper line) and

Subtracting (for the lower line)

An (n-period simple moving average of an n period ATR) * an ATR multiplier.

XAUUSD Technical Analysis & How to Generate Trading Signals

This xauusd indicator can be traded in much the same way as a Bollinger Bands

Continuation Trading Signals

When gold trading price moves outside the bands then a continuation of the current xauusd trend is implied. A buy signal is when the channels are moving upwards and sell signal is when the channels are moving downwards

Continuation Buy Sell XAUUSD Signals

Reversal XAUUSD Signals - Double Tops and Double Bottoms

Tops and Bottoms made outside the bands followed by tops and bottoms made inside the Keltner channels indicate signal for reversals in the gold trend.

Reversal XAUUSD Signals

Ranging XAUUSD Markets

In ranging markets a move which originates from one Keltner channel tends to go all the way to the other channel.