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Tutorial Step - Determining the Trend

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Summary: There are probably as many ways to determine a trend as traders inhabit planet Earth! It's a matter of style and mostly subjective!
We'll take an arbitrary and rather simple approach based on the 20-periods moving average (MA) built in the Bollinger Bands.
Go to the Bollinger Data Layer Manager and turn on the "Bollinger Channels Objects" Layer!
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1. Testing a Trading Idea - The Trigger Stage Tutorial

2. Tutorial - Testing a Trading Idea

3. Tutorial Step - The Pipeline

4. Tutorial Step - Do You Have The Data?

5. Tutorial Step - Let's Mine Some Data...

6. Tutorial Step - Let's Start With the Basics!

7. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems

8. Tutorial Step - Right Out of the Box!

9. Tutorial Step - Why Downtrends?

10. Tutorial Step - Trigger Stage Events

11. Tutorial Step - Trigger On Event

12. Tutorial Step - Situations, Conditions, and Formulas in Superalgos

13. Tutorial Step - Remember the Context?

14. Tutorial Step - Let's Study the Syntax!

15. Tutorial Step - Reinforce The Learning!

16. Tutorial Step - We Need Data

17. Tutorial Step - Time to Work the Charts!

18. Tutorial Step - Determining the Trend

19. Tutorial Step - Is That Good Enough?

20. Tutorial Step - An Extra Dimension!

21. Tutorial Step - Bollinger Subchannels

22. Tutorial Step - Products & Properties

23. Tutorial Step - Let's Check Those Slopes

24. Tutorial Step - We Have Our Conditions!

25. Tutorial Step - Set Up the First Condition!

26. Tutorial Step - Now the Second Condition!

27. Tutorial Step - Never Forget Granularity!

28. Tutorial Step - Trigger Off Event

29. Tutorial Step - The Workings of Situations

30. Tutorial Step - Separate Situations!

31. Tutorial Step - Keep the Definitions Tidy!

32. Tutorial Step - First Backtest...

33. Tutorial Step - A Bit About Backtesting!

34. Tutorial Step - Let's Do This...

35. Tutorial Step - Let's See What We've Got!

36. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Trigger Stage Test

37. Tutorial Step - Can't See What's Expected?

38. Tutorial Step - Visual Verification

39. Tutorial Step - Look at the 26th!

40. Tutorial Step - Keep Looking!

41. Tutorial Step - Troubleshooting 101

42. Tutorial Step - Let's Hunt For Errors!

43. Tutorial Step - Errors & Time

44. Tutorial Step - Error Details

45. Tutorial Step - Errors & Nodes

46. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Tracking Errors

47. Tutorial Step - Deciphering Errors

48. Tutorial Step - Let's Unpack This Error

49. Tutorial Step - Counting Candles!

50. Tutorial Step - Lesson Learned?

51. Tutorial Step - Highlights and Values

52. Tutorial Step - A Note on Event-Evaluation

53. Tutorial Step - The Land of Confusion

54. Tutorial Step - The Time Frame Mystery

55. Tutorial Step - What Am I Missing?

56. Tutorial Step - Free as a Bird

57. Tutorial Step - Take Position Event...

58. Tutorial Step - Candle Properties

59. Tutorial Step - A Close Below the Bands?

60. Tutorial Step - One More Detail!

61. Tutorial Step - Let's Break It Down!

62. Tutorial Step - Let's Define It!

63. Tutorial Step - The Second Close

64. Tutorial Step - The Previous Close

65. Tutorial Step - The Previous Property

66. Tutorial Step - Second Backtest!

67. Tutorial Step - Let's Do It!

68. Tutorial Step - Let's Get On The Same Page

69. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Second Backtest

70. Tutorial Step - What Do We Have Here?

71. Tutorial Step - Take Position Event

72. Tutorial Step - Find The Error Challenge

73. Tutorial Step - Target Rate Error

74. Tutorial Step - Radical Workaround

75. Tutorial Step - Let's Test Again!

76. Tutorial Step - Are Errors Gone?

77. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Third Backtest

78. Tutorial Step - Let's Take a Closer Look!

79. Tutorial Step - Trigger On Conditions!

80. Tutorial Step - Take Position Conditions!

81. Tutorial Step - A Little Speculation Game

82. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Candles Panel

83. Tutorial Step - Not So Great Right?

84. Tutorial Step - Let's Wrap It Up!