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I personally feel that you are looking at this tool differently than it is intended to be used. This tool is not used to lead/discover the trend, but instead to follow it. In fact, the tool was designed by welles wilder almost exclusively for trailing stops lagging behind and following the market. Normally, you use indicators like the macd or ssto to enter the market, then attach a trailing stop to a calculated stop loss indicator like the psar to protect your open order and then take you out(hopefully with a profit). A similar indicator would be the atr stop, or even the more generic dollars, pips, bars back trailing stops. Now it is possible to use the sar to enter the market or set direction, but that is not the norm or even necessarily the recommended use for the tool. You can take a look at my source link for a more in depth description. Jeff keller
track 'n trade support & education
gecko software, inc.
