Now that I got your attention I want you to start thinking for yourself and not believe everything you see, hear or read in this forum or some book. I am not here to tell you how I trade, I only want to encourage questioning and finding answers by yourself rather than taking the word of someone else including mine.
There are no trends or ranges, it is something you make up. I trade the market as it is, not what I think but what it is. You open your chart and look at it, what do you see? I see price and time, nothing cryptic simply price and time. Now if you believe in trends, after this your mind no longer sees what is in front of your eyes. You begin to wonder is price going up or down, you look at the previous bars and try to deduce from there. Another looks his chart and if price is above some line decides it is trending upwards. There are as many ways to look for a trend as there are traders but the bottom line is you are looking for something and you no longer trade what actually is on the chart. The same people who search for trends try to avoid ranging market conditions or change their way of trading. Why would you do that? You change the way you look at the market but the market itself has not changed, the only thing that changes is that 2 lines on the chart crossed, a line you drew was broken or something else. In reality the only thing that changed is what moves the market and the reasons behind them, what is on the chart does not change. If you do not understand what I am driving at think of it this way, what if you were new to trading and were not familiar with the concept of trend or range, how would you see the market and how would you trade it??? The human brain is interesting because if you do not accept what you see you begin to form thoughtmodels to make sense and end up seeing what you want. An other point, trends are lagging and you expect the next bar to continue in the same direction? History does repeat itself but you are trading yestorday instead of today.
There are no trends or ranges, it is something you make up. I trade the market as it is, not what I think but what it is. You open your chart and look at it, what do you see? I see price and time, nothing cryptic simply price and time. Now if you believe in trends, after this your mind no longer sees what is in front of your eyes. You begin to wonder is price going up or down, you look at the previous bars and try to deduce from there. Another looks his chart and if price is above some line decides it is trending upwards. There are as many ways to look for a trend as there are traders but the bottom line is you are looking for something and you no longer trade what actually is on the chart. The same people who search for trends try to avoid ranging market conditions or change their way of trading. Why would you do that? You change the way you look at the market but the market itself has not changed, the only thing that changes is that 2 lines on the chart crossed, a line you drew was broken or something else. In reality the only thing that changed is what moves the market and the reasons behind them, what is on the chart does not change. If you do not understand what I am driving at think of it this way, what if you were new to trading and were not familiar with the concept of trend or range, how would you see the market and how would you trade it??? The human brain is interesting because if you do not accept what you see you begin to form thoughtmodels to make sense and end up seeing what you want. An other point, trends are lagging and you expect the next bar to continue in the same direction? History does repeat itself but you are trading yestorday instead of today.