Trend following enters in the direction of an established move, buying a breakout to new highs, or buying when a fast moving average crosses above a slow one, and stays in as long as the trend persists, typically exiting via a trailing stop rather than a fixed target. The philosophy: don't predict where a trend ends, just ride it until it demonstrably reverses.
Trend strategies tend to have a specific win/loss shape: more losing trades than winning ones, but the winners run much larger than the losers, so the strategy is profitable on average despite a sub-50% win rate. That shape makes trend-following psychologically harder to run than the raw numbers suggest. It means tolerating a long string of small losses while waiting for the occasional large winner.
Several of zengtrade's featured strategies are trend-followers at different speeds: a slower 20/100 breakout system, a faster 20/50 EMA crossover, and an ADX-filtered variant, each a genuinely different trade profile, not the same idea repeated.
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