Core Concepts
Trend Alignment
Trading in the same direction as the prevailing trend
Trend alignment means ensuring your trade direction matches the dominant market trend across multiple timeframes. Aligned trades have higher probability and better risk-reward ratios.
✓How to Recognize
- •Your entry direction matches daily/weekly trend
- •Higher timeframe supports your trade thesis
- •Pattern direction aligns with momentum
- •No conflicting signals from larger timeframes
⚡How to Avoid
- →Always check higher timeframe trend before entry
- →Avoid patterns that conflict with the trend
- →Use weekly bias as a filter
- →When in doubt, don't trade