{"id":4367,"date":"2019-11-05T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:15:15","slug":"squeeze-momentum-indicator-by-lazybear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/squeeze-momentum-indicator-by-lazybear\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear is a volatility indicator that I discovered in TradingView.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/squeeze-momentum-indicator-by-lazybear\/sqm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4368\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1691\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SQM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SQM.jpg 1691w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SQM-300x109.jpg 300w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SQM-768x279.jpg 768w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SQM-1024x372.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SQM-500x182.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1691px) 100vw, 1691px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/script\/nqQ1DT5a-Squeeze-Momentum-Indicator-LazyBear\/\">https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/script\/nqQ1DT5a-Squeeze-Momentum-Indicator-LazyBear\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a derivative of John Carter&#8217;s &#8220;TTM Squeeze&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/scripts\/volatility\/\"><span class=\"tv-chart-view__tag-page-link\">volatility<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;indicator, as discussed in his book &#8220;Mastering the Trade&#8221; (chapter 11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black crosses on the midline show that the market just entered a squeeze (&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/scripts\/bollingerbands\/\"><span class=\"tv-chart-view__tag-page-link\">Bollinger Bands<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;are with in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/scripts\/keltnerchannels\/\"><span class=\"tv-chart-view__tag-page-link\">Keltner<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;Channel). This signifies low&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/scripts\/volatility\/\"><span class=\"tv-chart-view__tag-page-link\">volatility<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;, market preparing itself for an explosive move (up or down). Gray crosses signify &#8220;Squeeze release&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.Carter suggests waiting till the first gray after a black cross, and taking a position in the direction of the momentum (for ex., if momentum value is above zero, go long). Exit the position when the momentum changes (increase or decrease &#8212; signified by a color change). My (limited) experience with this shows, an additional indicator like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/scripts\/averagedirectionalindex\/\"><span class=\"tv-chart-view__tag-page-link\">ADX<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;\/ WaveTrend, is needed to not miss good entry points. Also, Mr.Carter uses simple&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/scripts\/momentum\/\"><span class=\"tv-chart-view__tag-page-link\">momentum indicator<\/span><\/a> , while I have used a different method (linreg based) to plot the histogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do I use it?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>I check different indicators under <a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/my-3-screens-layers\/\">the triple screen framework<\/a>, and the Squeeze Momentum Indicator is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/my-3-screens-layers\/\">intermediate screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear is a volatility indicator that I discovered in TradingView. https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/script\/nqQ1DT5a-Squeeze-Momentum-Indicator-LazyBear\/ This is a derivative of John Carter&#8217;s &#8220;TTM Squeeze&#8221;&nbsp;volatility&nbsp;indicator, as discussed in his book &#8220;Mastering the Trade&#8221; (chapter 11). Black crosses on the midline show that the market just entered a squeeze (&nbsp;Bollinger Bands&nbsp;are with in&nbsp;Keltner&nbsp;Channel). This signifies low&nbsp;volatility&nbsp;, market &#8230; <a title=\"Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/squeeze-momentum-indicator-by-lazybear\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trading"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear is a volatility indicator that I discovered in TradingView. - joapen projects\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/squeeze-momentum-indicator-by-lazybear\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Squeeze Momentum Indicator by LazyBear is a volatility indicator that I discovered in TradingView. - 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