Defining Short Term Trends?

Hi,

What do people use to guage short term trends? I am trading 15 mins charts so I guess the last 12-20 hours or so price action tells me the trend or do I use a 100 or less 50 MA?

Thanks.

do you mean you want to confirm your 15M signal with longer time frames signal?

I would be very interested to know how to accurately determine and up or down trend in a fifteen minute chart when looking to trade flag patterns.

This higher highs, higher lows, and vice versa always confuses me, I am never sure where a trend has changed.

Robert.

Unless you havent already, read Al Brooks: Reading price charts bar by bar. You can find it free from the internet after some googling. Its all there. Around 400 pages. Takes a bit of work, but sure is worth the effort.