What is the "trend" to a trader?

Interestingly, I've noticed that many traders do not understand that the trend is related to the timeframe.  We can be in a daily uptrend but hourly or 15min downtrend,, all at the same time. In this case, going SHORT on a daytrade or scalp would be "trading with the trend" even thought the daily trend is up... applies to weekly monthly too...

That's why, on my computer screen, I always simultaneously display the Daily, 60min, 15min, 3min, 2min,1min, and 133t (when daytrading).... for swings i only use 15,60, daily weekly (not much emphasis on weekly for short term swings) ... if the daily, 60min, 15min are all "up", then i go heavily long (more shares) because multiple layers of support exist.



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