The use of technical analysis on the financial market

Successful investors use technical analysis to make money on the financial market. Presentation explains the uses of technical analysis and theories deployed in trading on the financial market. The main aim is to show advantages, disadvantages and suitability of these strategies. All of this is done by using technical indicators, risk and money management used to protect traders from losses and backtested on historical data. An effective use of technical analysis presupposes that course changes are not random but follow a specific trend which change in time. The aim is to build an automatic trading strategy based on technical analysis following technical indicators. Correctly used technical analysis helps traders to predict trends as well as trend changes before they happen and to use this method for reaching exceptional returns. Strategy setting is based on oscillator Parabolic SAR with special setting values. The strategy was applied on EUR/USD currency pair and four hour time frame (H4 graph). Strategy was tested on historical data and optimized with added money management. Finally backtested on historical data and reached every tested year profit. Absolute net reached profit in years 2016, 2017, 2018 was 17 844USD, which represents 178 % account evaluation