“The trend is your friend” is an old market adage and about as good a one as one will ever hear. Trading with the trend, instead of against it, can increase the long‐term odds of success enormously. The trend in this context means the major trend—the primary current direction of the market that a trader is following. All trends at all price levels and in all time units have two components: the primary trend is the direction of the market, and the secondary trend is the direction opposite the market. As no market goes straight up or straight down, every market has corrections or secondary trends. Traders use an enormous number of tools for determining the major trend, from the simple to the ridiculously complicated. Keep it simple (KIS) and moving average techniques are suggested to determine the major trend. A moving average smoothens out the flow of price data and creates a relatively stable single directional line.