Everyone wants to have a say here about trading "with" or "counter" "trend", but no one actually defined what trend is. i would suggest with so many interpretations of the word available this may have been a good place to start?
I agree with you absolutely. For me, I found that one of the big barriers to profitability is "managing yourself". Whilst you cannot control what the market is doing, in order to be sucessful, one must be able to control one's own reactions to the market's behaviour.