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It is basically the overall direction prices that might be moving Up, Down or Flat.

A trend may comprise of many other smaller trends that sum up to make the entire trend. The direction in which the trend is pointing is very important when it comes to trading and surveying the market. Trends in Forex can be understood as the response, which you can predict on the basis of analysis, to the price at its very own level of opposition or support over a span of time. To illustrate a little, prices are recovered when they are in the proximity of the apex in an upward trend. However the case is just the opposite with the downward trend – prices increase when they come nearer to the opposition levels. A trend is identified in such a manner. This is called, what is referred to as the ‘Trade-line examination’.

Trend-line examination is often underrated. In the view of some analysts, there is a lot of subjectivity used in it that it is a little retrospective. Though such analysts cannot be held completely wrong but they also overlook that trend-lines help concentration when it comes to essential price designs thus pulling out the redundant factors which are there in the market. So it can be said that the Trend-line analysis should be your very first process in determining the existence of a trend. If you continue to follow the same and it does not show any existence of a trend, then you can be sure that there isn’t any.

The Trend-line analysis is made the best use of when you are using it for a longer period of time for eg. Daily to weekly. With the passage of time we can move to hourly timeframes as well where levels of opposition and support may be found out. This methodology has proved quite beneficial because it lets you give more importance to those aspects in trends which are more significant than the others rather than to the less important ones. Also by making use of this method, traders reduce the risk of following a not so permanent leg up that might have come in the trend. It also ensures that you don’t miss an important long-term upward trend.

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