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[amibroker] Re: Adjustable Bollinger Bands



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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jtelang" <jtelang@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> A bit confused about couple of things here... Hope you can clarify.
> 
> 1. BBands are calculated as standard deviation, so by definition, 2 
> times BBands is supposed to capture 95% of the values over periods 
> specified. 

No. 95% of the values in a *Gaussian population* lie within 1.96 SDs
of the *population* mean.  First, the population isn't Gaussian. 
Second, we're only dealing with (small) *samples* from the
population. 


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