Yes. One of the main limitations is that it shouldn’t be used as a standalone tool. In fact, Bollinger Bands® should be used with other non-correlated indicators. Doing so may give you additional market signals that are much more direct. Another drawback is that they are calculated using a simple moving average. That’s because older price data is weighted in the same way as recent data.
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