It is well known in the currency trading world that the trend is your buddy and any currency trading methodology based around following a trend is probably going to be both simple and effective. When trend lines are forming, you can use them as a signal to sell or buy the currency pair.
Step one in using trend lines for a foreign exchange trading technique is to determine whether the market is rising, falling or is stable within certain parameters. Of course there will always be fluctuations, but at particular times you will see clear patterns.
1. If the price is rising
If the price is going up, first draw a straight line through the highest highs on the chart. This line will be sloping upward. Then draw another line thru the lowest lows on the chart. If this line is also going upward and is roughly parallel to the first, you have an rising trend. In a sense this strategy means going against the trend, but you would only hold that position for a short time. In this example you are following the trend which is often a better method. However, you must remember that there will at some point be a true reversal and you may be caught out by this. 2. The lines you draw will be going downward but you’d still buy when the price hits the lower line and sell when it hits the upper line.



