Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Trade the Trend

Very powerful training session this morning. One point that hit home is we must trade with the trend. Fighting the trend is like swimming upstream in a swift river.

The question all investors need to answer for themselves is this: Which trend do I want to follow? Short-, intermediate- or long-term trend?

Steve showed us how to use the 5-day moving average and the price channel as stops in the current intermediate trend, and how the 5-day gives us a great exit point during the initial phase of this intermediate advance. The price channel will give us more lattitude when the short-term cycle chop begins.