How to determine a trend in a timeframe?

<p id="isPasted">I don't believe that it is possible to catch short-term trends. They are rooted in investor emotion, which is unpredictable.</p><p>It's easy to catch long-term trends. They are determined by the valuation level that applies. When stocks are priced insanely high (as they have been from 1996 forward), the long-term trend is always down hard. When stocks are priced insanely low (as they were in 1982), the long-term trend is always up hard.</p><p>In the 140 years of stock-market history for which we have records there has never been a single exception to this rule. I am the co-author of peer-reviewed research (which I did with Wade Pfau, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton) that shows that investors who are willing to look at the price at which stocks are selling before setting their allocation thereby reduce the risk of stock investing by nearly 70 percent while increasing their long-term returns by enough to retire five to 10 years sooner than they could if they followed Buy-and-Hold strategies.</p>

<p id="isPasted">Traders can identify a trend using various forms of technical analysis, including trendlines, price action, and technical indicators. For example, trendlines might show the direction of a trend while the relative strength index (RSI) is designed to show the strength of a trend at any given point in time.</p><p>An uptrend is marked by an overall increase in price. Nothing moves straight up for long, so there will always be oscillations, but the overall direction needs to be higher in order for it to be considered an uptrend.</p><p>Recent swing lows should be above prior swing lows, and the same goes for swing highs. Once this structure starts to break down, the uptrend could be losing steam or reversing into a downtrend. Downtrends are composed of lower swing lows and lower swing highs.</p><p>While the trend is up, traders may assume it will continue until there is evidence that points to the contrary. Such evidence could include lower swing lows or highs, the price breaking below a trendline, or technical indicators turning bearish.</p><p>While the trend is up, traders focus on buying, attempting to profit from a continued price rise.</p><p>When the trend turns down, traders focus more on selling or shorting, attempting to minimize losses or profit from the price decline. Most (not all) downtrends do reverse at some point, so as the price continues to decline, more traders begin to see the price as a bargain and step in to buy.</p><p>This could lead to the emergence of an uptrend again.</p><p>Trends may also be used by investors focused on fundamental analysis. This form of analysis looks at changes in revenue, earnings, or other business or economic metrics.</p><p>For example, fundamental analysts may look for trends in earnings per share and revenue growth. If earnings have grown for the past four quarters, this represents a positive trend. However, if earnings have declined for the past four quarters, it represents a negative trend.</p><p>The lack of a trend—that is, a period of time where there is little overall upward or downward progress—is called a range or trendless period.</p><p>Credits- Investopedia</p>

<p id="isPasted">Really very difficult to identify the future trend of stock market. Expert tracks technical and fundamental analysis of companies/market to identify the trend. But none of them predicts market correctly.</p><p>If they would have predicted market 100% correctly, then all stock market expert would have richest person of world.</p><p>If you want to invest in market, then study fundamental &amp; technical analysis.</p><p>Most important things to remember……….. people can make the money in market, if you do invest in good company for long-term.</p>

<p><br>Sorry but for a normal person it is not possible to predict the market movement we can sometime win and sometime loose but predicting the market is something looks impossible.</p>