The most fundamental concept in TA is the trend. There’s an old market saying: “the trend is your friend - until the end”.Your goal as a Technical Analyst (TA) is to follow the crowd until it’s about to turn, and then get out before most people realise that sentiment has changed.Identifying trends and trading with them is more profitable than ignoring them. You buy into an uptrend, and sell out of a downtrend Trends often work in tandem with additional support and resistance lines (known as tramlines) Primary trends are punctuated by secondary trends in the opposite direction, known as retracements or pullbacks Trends remain in place until some major event (catalyst) ends them, by pushing the price breaks through a support or resistance line – this is known as a breakout.