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Understanding whether the market is trending or ranging is one of the most important trading skills.

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Two core regimes · How to recognize a trend · How to recognize a range · Checklist

• Trend regime: price produces higher highs and higher lows in an uptrend, or lower highs and lower lows in a downtrend.
• Range regime: price oscillates between support and resistance with no sustained directional progress.
• Recognizing the regime helps determine which trading tactics are more appropriate.

• Trending markets often show directional moving averages and clear swing structure.
• Pullbacks tend to be shallow and find support quickly.
• Breakouts are more likely to follow through in trending markets.

• Ranges often show flat moving averages and repeated reversals near similar price zones.
• Breakouts frequently fail and return inside the range.
• Price rotates between support and resistance rather than trending.

• Are moving averages sloping upward or downward?
• Is price producing higher highs and higher lows?
• Are reactions occurring repeatedly at similar zones?
• Am I applying a trend strategy inside a range?

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Open the scanner, pick one symbol, and practice: mark zones, decide trend regime, and write one invalidation level. The goal is a repeatable process, not perfect predictions.

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