Witht the given stock, conduct the Bollinger Bands analysis by answering the questions below.

Q1 Calculate 20-day moving averages and 20-day running standard deviation. Save the result under stock and print it.

Hint: Take stock, pipe it to tidyquant::tq_mutate to calculate 20-day moving averages, pipe it to tidyquant::tq_mutate to calculate 20-day running standard deviation, pipe it to rename() to rename value to SD, and assign the result to stock. To calculate the running standard deviation, use runSD in place of SMA. You can see all the available functions in tidyquant::tq_mutate using tq_mutate_fun_options().

Q2 Calculate the Bollinger Bands. Save the result under stock and print it.

Hint: Take stock, pipe it to mutate(sd2up = SMA + 2 * SD, sd2down = SMA - 2 * SD), and assign the result to stock.

Q3 Select variables to build the Bollinger Bands. Save the result under stock_selected and print it.

Hint: Take stock, pipe it to dplyr::select to keep date, close, SMA, sd2up, and sd2down, and assign the result to stock_selected.

Q4 Transform data to long form from wide form for graphing.Save the result under stock_long and print it.

Hint: Take stock_selected, pipe it to gather(key = type, value = price, close:sd2down), and assign the result to stock_long.

Q5 Visualize data.

Hint: Take stock_selected and pipe it to ggplot(). Map date to the x-axis, price to the y-axis, and type to color in the line chart.

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Q6 If you had invested $1 million on the day of the first buying point and sold all the shares on the following selling point, how much would you have won or lost?

The first buying point was on 2020-03-12 at $1,677, the next selling point was on 2020-04-13 at a price of $2,169. So I would have made $293,381.04 on 596 shares that I used $1million to invest with.

Q7 An analyst may tinker with the width of the Bollinger Bands depending the volatility of the stock. Which of the following scenarios would have yield the largest profit? Elaborate your answer.

Hint: A correct answer must show the per-share profit each scenario, the difference between the buying price and the selling price.

  1. the upper band being 2 sd up from the average and the lower band 2 sd below (standard)
  2. the upper band being 2.5 sd up from the average and the lower band 2 sd below

Scenario 2 would yield a much larger profit. Scenario one would yield 29% while scenario 2 would yield 55%. This is due to the higher selling price with the upper band being 2.5 sd. With this higher selling price you still have the same buying price.

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