What counts as a trend on a weekly chart

In the Bangsue room we start every Essentials cohort with the same exercise: cover the daily chart and mark only the weekly swings. Most disagreements in class are not about indicators. They are about whether a pullback has already broken the prior higher low.

A useful working definition is boring on purpose. Higher highs and higher lows for an advance, the reverse for a decline, and a written line that says the trend is finished if that structure fails. Moving averages can sit on the page as a filter so you do not chase every small bounce, but they do not replace the swing marks.

If two students mark different trends on the same printout, we do not vote. We ask which rule each person wrote down before the exercise. Trend following only becomes teachable when the definition is on paper.

See how this sits in the six-week map