1. When the market was trending, he turned his system on.
2. When the market was in choppy zone, he turned his system off and
ignored any trading signals.
What you can do is just the same with any trading system or robot.
Determining the trend using a simple moving average can be replaced with a
more sophisticated, versatile technique that you will learn in the next pages.
How to determine the trend
Some people learn from their mistakes, but smart people learn from other
people's mistakes. So let's start with examples of a wrong but very common
approach to market trend analysis.
What you see in this chart is explosive price movement that is usually the result
of a news release. All brokers, platforms and various currency tools are
indicating a “strong uptrend”, tempting people to jump in and make a profit.
What happens next is, at best, a choppy zone, or a hard fall.
What is actually in the chart are a few consecutive long green candlesticks. This
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