An essential part of any trader’s forex trading education is learning to spot trends. This is your signal the market is making a sustained move, either up or down, and you can gain from it by opening a trade. The famous saying ‘the trend is your friend’ is at the heart of this methodology. Using trends to benefit from currency trading may seem just about too simple. Provided you can tell the difference between an emerging trend and a mere fluctuation. But truly it is a extremely simple method and you should not attempt to complicate it.
There are many other ways of identifying a trend using either technical research (charts and indicators) or market data (fundamental criteria). Drawing trend lines on a candlestick chart is probably the simplest method. You can identify triangle patterns that may foretell a breakout in one direction or the other, and check these against other indicators like the MACD crossover. Check hourly against daily charts and so on.
There is not any must know all of the different methods for spotting a trend. Perfect 1 or 2 reliable strategies and you have all that you need to earn income. Do not be put off by one failure, and control your risk so that 2 losses in a row will not have a big effect on your funds or on your confidence.