While waiting for VWB reversals, I got a urge to begin a platform on Collective2 that runs together with the fad on all 10 pairs tracked by default on C2. I started it before the end of last month. I called the system Position.

I kept track of what on a spreadsheet. The system, if I wouldn't have put any stoplosses, would have been up 30% by now. The system I really followed, which includes stops, is only (only?!) Up 10% or so. That is 10% in under a month, and in the beginning it went against the advice of the tunnel methods. During that time I lost money doing short-term breakouts and price action but gained money by following the fad.

I've found this to be true over and over againAlways follow the fad. The GBPUSD place has become the flagship of Monthly Position, and it has gained over 800 pips within this time period.

On the other hand, I feel the anti-dollar trend isn't right, it has already begun to reverse, and I don't want to have all of my positions stuck either for or against the dollar. It sucks that I am putting my money I don't believe in, but it's making me money.

Is swing trading purely plogical, or can be long-term trading a time-management technique that elicits short-term profit?