Well everybody tells trend is your friend,trade the trend. History shows 80% of profit comes from 20% of trades on trending market.I always tried to use different strategy to check trend but after some time market proves me wrong. Actual fig comes after couple of months when market already crashed or Topped…how to know the trend? atleast 2 trade.
One of the best ways to establish a trend is to look at how the price averages are behaving. I would suggest you read through this - http://zerodha.com/varsity/chapter/moving-averages/