Trend Following: Trading in the Direction of Least Resistance
Markets spend more time trending than not — and trend following is the strategy built to exploit exactly that. Here's the big picture.
Learning Path Stage 6: Find Your Strategy
Learning Level 1: Recognition
The simplest possible description of trading: buy things going up, sell things going down. That's trend following. But there's a gap between a simple description and a viable strategy — and this series covers everything in that gap.
Trend following is one of the oldest systematic approaches to markets. It's been used by individual traders and multi-billion dollar funds alike. The concept travels across timeframes, asset classes, and market conditions. And unlike many strategies, it doesn't require predicting where price is going — only recognizing where it already is.
This series covers what trend following actually is, how it works mechanically, its cultural history in trading, the tools serious practitioners use, field notes from real trend trades, and how to backtest it honestly.
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Q: Does trend following work in all markets?
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Q: How do you know when a trend is actually starting vs. just a temporary move?
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Krista Weber
After years as a VP of UX and a career in edtech, I retired early.
A few months later, I got bored enough to start learning trading.
What I didn’t expect was how much of UX thinking still applied. Just in a much more immediate and unforgiving environment.
This site is my attempt to learn it properly, and make the process clearer for anyone trying to do the same.
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