Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Forex Trading: Parabolic SAR Stop and Reverse Technical Indicator

An indicator on the trading platforms like PLUS500 is Parabolic SAR; it is an indicator that is useful in a trend-following market and best if the investment is a long term investment.

The Parabolic SAR indicator can not stand alone as a basis for a decision.

Parabolic SAR stands for stop and reverse as the indicator provide the traders with information about the trend direction; is the trend bearish is the indicator line above the price line and if the market is bullish is the indicator line below the price line.

The image illustrates the price line and the parabolic SAR indicator.


More about parabolic SAR

In the article is written that it is important testing the indicators to improve and find the right trading tools; just to make it easier to understand how a test could look like is a visualisation of a test in the table below.


More information on how to test a trading strategy is in the article Forex Online Trading? How To Test a ForexTrading Strategy.