Bollinger Band Squeeze Screener

Q: How is Bollinger Band Squeeze calculated?

BandWidth in the bottom 5% of its last 125 bars. Bollinger's own Squeeze is BandWidth at a six-month low; the bottom-5th-percentile relaxation is ours, so that the screen returns a usable list rather than near-zero rows.

Bollinger BandWidth near the low end of its own six-month range — volatility has contracted. The squeeze says a large move is likely to follow but says nothing whatever about its direction, and it can persist for weeks before resolving. Results are limited to tickers with real volume; an illiquid name matching a screen is not a tradeable idea.

Condition: BandWidth in the bottom 5% of its last 125 bars
Matching now: 227 of 2,305 tickers
Timeframe: 1d, closed bars only

Threshold source: Bollinger's own Squeeze is BandWidth at a six-month low; the bottom-5th-percentile relaxation is ours, so that the screen returns a usable list rather than near-zero rows.

Matching tickers

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How this screen is evaluated

Every ticker is checked on its last closed bar, so a match cannot appear mid-session and disappear at the close. Tickers without enough history to compute the condition are excluded rather than counted as non-matching — a screen needing a 200-period average simply skips a symbol that has traded for fifty days.

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