Best trending markets?

Hi to everyone,I am posting this thread to get some feedback on preferred markets for trend following.

I love using options on stocks simply for leverage,but most skilled option traders say to use them for volatility,and i find in choppy markets,stock options for leverage are a fast way to lose.

So FX is the only thing im really trading now,and it trends really well (especially for 4hr and over charting).The leverage is strong,so position sizing is totally important!

So i was just wondering what other traders who use trend following from this site prefer to trade with? I have also been exploring commodity ETF's,and non S&P/DOW correlated stocks,but,so far FX seems to be almost a perfect match for trend following,if you can ride out retracements

I trade GC (COMEX), EUR, SP, and 3x ETFs because of their liquidity.

I stopped trading JPY because it has way too many false signals than that of EUR.

people say AUD/USD is great for trend trading. although i think that's an exaggeration.

NATGAS is the best . simple and predictive.

I'm paper trading a cotton ETF right now (BAL),and just trying to see if commodity ETFs work well as a stock pick.

I was thinking they might trend better because supply and demand are more natural,while stocks are perceived more as purely investment vehichle,and move more on speculative sentiment about the economy,therefore can become very choppy,giving me too many long/short/long/short signals.

Im trying to move away from the S&P/DOW until either it smooths out into a more singular direction,or i just become a better trader.

corn

oh yeah,nice one,

Teucrium corn fund ETV,literally CORN (CORN),nice 3 month trend line on that one.

The money flow index is also crossing up above 50.

Contango and backwardation are neither bullish nor bearish. All it means is the market is extremely unbalanced

Do you trade contracts or would an ETF work in this case also? I saw UNG as a value play,but not really trending.I have never traded natural gas,is FXCM or OANDA set to go for this market?

There is never a single market permanently good or not good for trend trading. Markets move in waves and depending what wave the market trades in (in correlation to you trading TF) you will have a hard time trend following or not. Markets always change, especially these days this can be observed obviously. So go with the underlying that starts a trend instead of focusing on a single one and missing out on the others ....

True. The only thing you can inquire is which markets are "relatively more trending" than others on an overall level.

From what I have seen so far, it tends to be the more actively traded ones, EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and USD/CAD. But then again, any of these markets can go into tight ranges at any time but overall, they tend to trend more.

My 2 cents.

A few years ago when I was trading a lot of stock index futures I found the Russell 2000 had absolutely the best trending contracts. Since it's so broad and consists of smaller and medium sized stocks that might not be so well known, there's less of the noise you get with the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P500.

Is anyone one here trading Russell 2000 contracts now? Do you find it easier to make money with than other indices?