How to determed the trend for the day

Help i am looking for the best way to determend the trend for the day if you are and day trader and what time frame works best, the reason i as this is because i look at the higher time frame and see the market going up then i go down to the lower time frame and the market is going the other way, which way do i go the higher time frame or the lower time frame.

First, give your definition of the trend. Once you have that it will be much easier to find the trend.

For me an uptrend is higher highs and higher lows. A down trend is lower lows and lower highs.

So for me everything is in the definition. Well, almost.

I guess it's all just a gamble but.

Use a Timescale to find your trend

Ie: 1 day

Use certain Charts

ie: 15 minute

Determine an Angle for a appropriate trend

ie: 40 degrees

Determine the trend lines, and then determine a strategy

Higher highs and higher lows or lower highs and lower lows.

i am not sure what you mean by "for the day" but i keep track of the median price of the current day's range, if price is above it up, if below, down... if at mid point well it'll likely range

1 Hour Charts, nothing shoter
50EMA
21 RSI
If the price action is above the 50EMA and the 21RSI breaks through the 50 centre line, the trend is bullish and visa-versa for short
- my opinion

You can use Equidistant channel, LRC, SHI and similiar. Find on a Daily chart the point where the current trend seems to begin, and draw the channel.

what do you mean
do you want the daily trend ( day carts) or the trend for the day( hour or i/2 charts

use the burkesystem for trend it is made uo of 5 emas & 2 smas

short term
5 ema green
8 ema red
mid term
5o ema green
100 ema red
long term
200 ema green
200 sma red
compase
20 sma yellow

green over red trend up
red over green down
use the yellow 20 as a compase of "now general direction( also remember it is the middle of the B. Bands)

you will see the trend very easy
& if you see no trend -- there is no trend

use the a slow shoch at 14.3.3 to see the wave in the trend

I have a question for you.
How do you define trend?

If you wanna find it you wanna know what you're looking for.
So what's your definition on trend?

trend for the DAY can be determined using pivot. Your definition of when a DAY starts depends on you

For short term trading, if yesterdays daily close is above the 3 period MA displaced 3 bars ahead, the trend is up. Dinapoli method - has worked well for me.

Try this; Pull up a 30min chart and focus on the previous day's price action. If the previous day's high occured after the previous day's low the best way to trade would be up and vice versa. Another tip would be to see how close to the high's or lows the market closed the previous day. The closer to the high the more likely it is that the market will move strongly higher and vice versa. A close near the middle of the previous day's range would imply a range bound day. I'll post a chart to make it clearer.

If above the PIVOT, does that mean its an uptrend, and vice versa? I never looked at using PIVOT to determine trend....

In this chart you can see the previous day first made a low at 1.9620 and then the high was made later in the day at 1.9737. The median price was 1.9678 and the close was pretty close, but just below at 1.9671. In this case you would look for a range bound market the next day, since the close was near the median, with an upward bias since the low was established before the high.

The next day we can see that yesterday's high was formed first and then the low. This would imply a bias south. The big difference here is that the close at 1.9653 is pretty far from the median price at 1.9690. The close being lower would make the case for south even stronger and would also imply a much more one directional day. Which as you can see is more or less what happened. Hope this helps.

faure,

Very good...

Many thanks for posting up those charts with your explanations, mate.

Just goes to show.......

KISS rules!

As they say......easy when you know how, eh?

Thanks again.