Stock market behavior is constantly changing, from day-to-day and even minute-to-minute. Market participants tend to trade in trends. Directional trading involves adjusting investing tactics to trade in a particular direction.

Bullish investors, those who believe equity prices will rise, and bearish investors, those who believe equity prices will fall, serve as counteracting forces in the market, resulting in the daily ebb and flow of trading. Patterns can sustain themselves for years and months or be as short in duration as a few minutes. Successful traders attempt to capture profits by observing market behavior and riding a wave in either direction. Trends can be found in entire industries or sectors or in individual companies and stocks.

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