Use of technical analysis in the financial market

Forex is the largest financial market in the world in terms of trading volume. To predict its direction, various models are used. One of those models is technical analysis, which is utilized by two strategies: an automatic one and a manual one. Both are traded on the following currency pairs: EUR/USD, USD/CAD, USD/JPY, AUD/USD and NZD/USD. The time period of the experiment is 12 months. The strategies are tested on MetaTrader 4 and the data for trading is provided by the broker Purple Trading. The data for the analysis originate from executed trades in real life, in case of the manual trading system, and from a backtest, in case of the automatic one. The opening balance of the account is 28 500 CZK. The manual strategy generated 1 091,88 CZK (an appreciation of 3,83 %). The automatic one made a profit of 3 051 CZK (an appreciation of 10,71 %). The manual strategy was successful on EUR/USD and NZD/USD. The automatic one on the other hand was successful on USD/CAD and AUD/USD. On USD/JPY none of them were profitable