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Trend: up, down and sideways — how to identify it

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Presented by NourIn Arabic, with captions. Other languages are coming.

Educational content, not investment advice. Nour explains how markets work. She never tells you what to buy or sell.

Price moves in waves of peaks and troughs. Comparing them gives a clear rule for the trend instead of a feeling.

  • Uptrend: higher highs AND higher lows.
  • Downtrend: lower highs AND lower lows.
  • Sideways: price moves between a ceiling and a floor; for most investors, a time to stand aside.
  • Markets never move one way forever. Breaking the last higher low (or lower high) is the first warning of a change — a probability, not a verdict.
  • Write your trend as a testable sentence, e.g. “up while price is above 1.1050”.

Quick check

Three questions. Pick an answer to see why.

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  1. 1.Which describes an uptrend?

  2. 2.In the lesson's uptrend, which event is the strongest warning of a change?

  3. 3.According to ASX education material, a sideways market for most investors is:

Sources

Every fact in this lesson is backed by the sources below.

  1. 1.ASX — Shares course 11: Technical analysis (PDF)Uptrend = higher highs and higher lows; downtrend = lower lows and lower highs; sideways market = time to stand aside
  2. 2.CME Group Education — Trend and continuation patternsMarkets never move in one direction forever

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