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A style that enters in the direction of an established trend and stays until it reverses, accepting many small losses in ranges in exchange for capturing the occasional large move.
Ride the trend, cut the chop. You lose small often and win big rarely — and the maths still works.
A trend-following indicator plotting dots that trail price and accelerate towards it over time, used as a trailing stop; SAR stands for “stop and reverse”.
Dots that chase price and flip to the other side when hit. Like Supertrend, it whipsaws in ranges.
A market condition in which price oscillates between a roughly horizontal support and resistance rather than trending — the regime where mean-reversion works and trend-following tools whipsaw.
Price stuck going sideways between a floor and a ceiling. The regime where trend indicators fail.
A trend-following overlay that plots a single ATR-based line below price in an uptrend and above it in a downtrend, flipping when price closes through it — effectively a volatility-scaled trailing stop.
The green-and-red line that trails price, very popular with Indian intraday traders. Excellent in a trend, a loss machine in a sideways market.
The 1983 trend-following system taught by Richard Dennis to a group of novices, built on Donchian breakouts.
Proof that the entry rule is the least important part of a system. The sizing and the pre-set stop did the real work.