A trend is the general direction of price over the period you are looking at, commonly described as higher highs and higher lows in an uptrend, or lower highs and lower lows in a downtrend. The same pair can be trending on one timeframe and moving sideways on another, so the label only means something together with the timeframe. Trend describes history; it is not a forecast.
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Trend
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