Question about ranging and trending

Hi, I'm quite new to forex trading and would like to ask about ranging and trending market.

The glossary posted in the Rookie section defines trend as "price movement that produces a net change in value. An uptrend is identified by higher-highs and higher-lows. A downtrend is identified by lower-highs and lower-lows", while the definition of range is "no net change in price, or equal highs and equal lows".

From reading various threads on on FF, there seems to be general beliefs that the market ranges more often than it trends. However, I had a look at daily and weekly charts for EUR/USD and GBP/USD for the past 10 years and from just looking at them, you can definitely see that most of the time, the price is either going up or down ie trending. This is even clearer when we use monthly charts. So wouldn't it be the case that the market trends most of the time? Would like to have some inputs so I can incorporate this concept into my trading. Thank you...

It will also depend on the timeframe you are evaluating.
Indeed price goes up or down (it is rare to see it stuck in a single price for several bars unless you are watching very small timeframes).
But for example, a "trend" on a 1 minute chart can just be a ranging period if seen on a higher TF (5 or 15 minutes) and so it is for all the options available.

Thus, a "range" would be when the price repeatedly moves between two limits (resistance and support) for a given amount of bars or candles, creating a horizontal area or rectangle, with those more or less "equal" highs and lows; a "trend" would be when the price keeps making higher highs and lows, or lower highs and lows, breaking repeatedly the next resistance or support level.

A trend reversal would be when it ceases going in the direction it had been going and starts working its way in the inverse direction; if it's short lived, it can be merely a pullback and then the original trend resumes; if it definitely doesn't show any signs of continuation of the original direction, it is indeed a reversal. But, here also, it depends on the time frame and the relationships of the different time spans you might be evaluating.