I do use standard deviations on price in my automated trading strategy. It is used to determine the volatility of an instrument. This volatility is used to determine what position size to take.
STD works in combination with another indicator that looks at tick granularity. The minimum and maximum thresholds are key. If you look at past posts, the answer is ATR. Just STD has low utility. You need a combined approach to give the ‘state’ of the market. It’s one of my best systems. Just watches and waits till thresholds are optimal. You have to backtest and find the number of bars and thresholds on multi year tick data.
To be precise, i`m trying to utilze STD in combo with auto channels for the less "jerky" entries.I tried it in combo with ATR and STD but didn`t noticed big difference.
You don't have to guess; you have to test. (But if I had to pick one and guess, then yes: I'd certainly pick ATR over SD.)
The trade signals are filtered where both STD and ATR have to exceed or be below certain thresholds. So signals only generate orders when there is extremely high volatility and also low volatility intraday. Very low volatility is just as important as extremely high volatility.
Sure, Take a look at this Tic: 240 Period 80 80 ATR STD STD max 2.1 min 2.1 ATR max 1.2 min 1.2 The above is my vol filter.