Disliked{quote} This is true, I'm sure there are many traders with success that trade counter to trend but in my view this is essentially playing with fire. I think what made it click for me is that a completely random strategy with set TP and SL over a long period of time will break even. Thus, by trading with trend, you are effectively pushing yourself over this break even barrier, and your entry shouldn't matter as long as your SL is below the previous low. Of course the closer to the previous low the higher R:R trade you will be able to take, making...Ignored
On any given TF, every corrective swing (counter-trend move) is a trend for EVERY TF below it. There simply is no other possibility, because those price bars on the given TF are created from exactly the same incoming price ticks as every other TF. For conventional price bars, there are simply 4 pieces of the tick data extracted (and the rest ignored) and used to draw a bar for a TF.
So this enables a trend following system to be valid no matter which direction the trend is, which TF is selected, and which swing is selected.
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