Parabolic SAR Trading Strategy

Parabolic SAR Forex trading strategy — is a rather risky system that is based on direct signals of the Parabolic SAR indicator, which shows stop and reverse levels.

Features

• Simple to follow.
• Only one standard indicator used.
• Entry and exit conditions are given directly by the indicator.
• Indicator lag.
• Very risky and not always effective.

Strategy Set-Up

1. Any currency pair and timeframe should work.
2. Add a Parabolic SAR indicator to the chart, set its step to 0.05 and maximum to 0.2.

Entry Conditions

Enter Long position when the current price touches the indicator from below and it changes its direction.

Enter Short position when the current price touches the indicator from above and it changes its direction.

Exit Conditions

Set stop-loss directly at the indicator level — above the price for Short positions and below the price for Long positions. Adjust stop-loss with each new bar.

Take-profit should be set to the same value as stop-loss but you shouldn't adjust it.

Example

As you can see on the example chart above, there are 6 entry points. The first one is bullish and leads to a profit. The second one is bearish and also reaches take-profit level. The third one is bullish and is a complete loss, as is the fourth one, which is, of course, bearish. The fifth one doesn't reach take-profit level but it closes with only a minor loss; it's bullish. The sixth one is a short position and has already reached its recommended take-profit.

Judging from above it's easy to conclude that short and long positions always follow one after another in this strategy and that it's not very reliable one.

Warning!

Use this strategy at your own risk. EarnForex.com can't be responsible for any losses associated with using any strategy presented on the site. It's not recommended to use this strategy on the real account without testing it on demo first.

Stochastic Oscillator Trading Strategy

Stochastic Oscillator Forex trading strategy — it's an interesting system with a rather low fail rate. It's based on a standard Stochastic Oscillator indicator, which signals a trend fatigue and change. That means that you will almost always enter on pull-backs, guaranteeing rather safe stop-loss levels.

Features

• Simple to follow.
• Only one standard indicator used.
• Safe stop-loss levels.
• Take-profit level isn't optimal.

Strategy Set-Up

1. Any currency pair and timeframe should work. But longer timeframes are recommended.
2. Add a Stochastic Oscillator indicator to the chart, set its %K period to 14, %D period to 7 and slowing to 7, use Simple MA method.

Entry Conditions

Enter Long position when the cyan line crosses the red one from below and both are located in the bottom half of the indicator's window.

Enter Short position when the cyan line crosses the red one from above and both are located in the upper half of the indicator's window.

Exit Conditions

Set stop-loss to the local maximum if going Long and to the local minimum if going Short.

The most comfortable level for take-profit is between 1 * SL and 1.5 * SL.

Close position immediately if another signal is generated.

Example

5 signals for this strategy can be seen on the example chart above. All stop-loss levels are marked with the yellow horizontal lines on the chart. The first signal is for Short position with a close stop-loss; take-profit is achievable here. The second one is a bullish signal, which turns out to be a wrong pull-back, but, fortunately enough, the stop-loss is quite tight here. The third signal is not a signal actually, because it's a bearish figure cross that appears in the bottom half of the window and thus is disregarded. Fourth signal is bullish with a stop-loss quite far away, but even the most aggressive take-profit level would work here. The final signal is for Short, with tight stop-loss and a lot of place for a rather profitable TP setting.

Ideally bullish and bearish signals should follow one after another but due to the occurrence of the false signals (bearish in the bottom half and bullish in the upper half of the window) it's not always so.

Warning!

Use this strategy at your own risk. EarnForex.com can't be responsible for any losses associated with using any strategy presented on the site. It's not recommended to use this strategy on the real account without testing it on demo first.

Combined Stochastic Oscillator/MA Trading Strategy

Combined Stochastic Oscillator/MA Forex trading strategy — is a relatively safe trading system that is based on the standard Stochastic Oscillator indicator in combination with the standard Exponential Moving Averages. You can use the moving averages as the general long-term trend indicator, while the stochastic will show you the short-term overbought/oversold states, where you can enter a successful pull-back trade.

Features

• Rather reliable.
• Trading with the trend.
• Isn't very easy to follow.
• No definite target/exit levels.

Strategy Set-Up

1. Any currency pair should work. Use D1 timeframe for the long-term trend detection with the Exponential Moving Averages and H1 timeframe for the short-term signal receiving with the Stochastic Oscillator.
2. Add 3 Exponential Moving Averages to the D1 chart, set periods to 50, 100 and 200.
3. Add a Stochastic Oscillator indicator to the H1 chart, set its %K period to 14, %D period to 3 and slowing to 3, use Close/Close price field, set overbought level to 90% and oversold level to 10%.

Entry Conditions

Enter Long position when the long-term trend is bullish (the D1 chart shows price above EMA50, EMA50 above EMA100 and EMA100 above EMA200) and the stochastic crosses the oversold level from below on H1 chart.

Enter Short position when the short-term trend is bearish (the D1 chart shows price below EMA50, EMA50 below EMA100 and EMA100 below EMA200) and the stochastic crosses the overbought level from above on H1 chart.

Exit Conditions

There are no definite SL/TP levels, but the recommended risk/reward ratio is 1/2.

A rather tight trailing stop should be maintained.

Example

Bearish trend:

Bullish trend:

On the example charts you can see the December 14, 2009 signals generated both for the bearish EUR/AUD and for the bullish AUD/CHF charts. As you see, the signal line for stochastic oscillator is the actual stochastic, not its MA. The exponential moving averages should form an almost perfect trend for the more accurate signals. In the Short position example both positions would hit a rather optimistic take-profit. In the Long position example the second trade would end with almost no loss if a tight trailing stop was used.

Warning!

Use this strategy at your own risk. EarnForex.com can't be responsible for any losses associated with using any strategy presented on the site. It's not recommended to use this strategy on the real account without testing it on demo first.