Trend Lines Strategy

Learn the Trend Lines Strategy, an advanced price action trading strategy using trend line interactions for entry and exit points across various markets.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Trendline Trading

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Trend Lines

Source video

Decoded from: Best Trend Lines Trading Strategy (Advanced) by Wysetrade — watch the original

Strategy overview

A trendline connects successive swing points to project where an ongoing trend has been finding buyers or sellers on its pullbacks. This entry is catalogued from Wysetrade's "Best Trend Lines Trading Strategy (Advanced)", and the word doing the work in that title is *advanced* — introductory trendline material is almost always about how to draw the line, while advanced material tends to be about something else entirely: which line deserves attention at all, and what else has to be true when price arrives at it.

What separates a trendline from the horizontal support and resistance most traders learn first is that its price coordinate is a function of time. A horizontal level sits at 1.0850 today and 1.0850 next week; a sloped level is somewhere new on every bar. That single property changes the practical questions: the entry price depends on *when* price reaches the line rather than *whether* it does, the distance to any invalidation point below or above it keeps changing, a slow sideways drift can make contact without any real momentum behind it, and a steep line gets overtaken so fast that it stops offering a usable reference within a few sessions. Trendline discussions that call themselves advanced usually circle this time-dependency in one form or another, whether through slope, the number of touches required, or what price is expected to do on arrival rather than at first contact.

No rule set has been extracted for this entry, so this page does not reproduce a mechanical version of what the video proposes — treat it as a pointer to the source and to the broader trendline concept, and go to the video itself for the specific construction Wysetrade walks through. If you intend to take a sloped-level idea toward testing, the first requirement is fixing the anchors so the line's value is reproducible bar by bar; until that is defined, a trendline is a drawing rather than a level a backtest can evaluate.

Topics

trend lines strategy · price action · trading strategy · tradingview strategy · advanced trend lines · technical analysis · market analysis · entry and exit points · swing trading · day trading

Frequently asked questions

How is a trendline different from horizontal support and resistance?

A horizontal level stays at the same price indefinitely, while a trendline is sloped, so its price changes on every bar. That means the entry price, the distance to invalidation, and how long the level stays relevant all depend on when price reaches the line, not just whether it does.

What does "advanced" usually mean in a trendline strategy?

Rarely a new way to draw the line. Advanced trendline material typically deals with selection and context instead — which of several possible lines matters, how slope and touch count qualify it, and what price is expected to do on arrival rather than at first contact.

What video is this entry based on?

It is catalogued from "Best Trend Lines Trading Strategy (Advanced)" by the Wysetrade channel. Strategy Decoder has not extracted a rule set for this entry, so the specific construction the video presents is not reproduced here — the source video is the reference for that.

Why are trendline strategies hard to test consistently?

Because the level moves with time. Two runs of the same idea can produce different entry prices and different stop distances depending on how quickly price reaches the line, so the drawing convention and anchor points have to be fixed explicitly before any historical test means anything.

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