Trend Following (Family) — Quick Lesson B: Use It
Choosing, Combining and Sizing Across the Five Strategies Without Doubling Your Risk
Overview & Market Foundations
Market backdrop, executive takeaways & goals
Quick Lesson A taught you what connects every trend-following strategy in this hub and how to read trend structure directly. This lesson is practical: a step-by-step process for picking a starting strategy from this family, a worked framework for checking whether two signals from different family members are genuinely independent or secretly the same trade twice, and the specific sizing adjustment that keeps a multi-strategy trend approach from quietly concentrating risk.
Where We Left Off
Quick Lesson A covered why trends persist, how to read trend structure without an indicator, and an overview of the five strategies in this family. This lesson assumes all of that and moves straight to application: choosing a starting strategy deliberately, recognising when two signals are correlated rather than independent, and sizing a multi-strategy trend approach correctly.