A bull flag is a bull flag
What two charts of the Nasdaq taught me about trusting the trend
I want to show you a chart….
I’m not going to tell you what it is yet.
Here it is…
SECRET CHART
A breakout to new highs, followed by 5 months of rally, almost doubling in value.
Here’s another one…
Pretty relentless bullish action, right? Must be some hot stock in a hot sector.
Well… both of these are the Nasdaq. At different points since 1999.
Yep. A mega-cap basket of tech stocks.
Ok, so what’s my point?
Trends last longer than you think.
Trust me on this. I’ve learned it the hard way. 
Either by not participating because it’s “too high, too fast”… or that one time I kept shorting FTSE like a total clown into new highs.
Thankfully, I did it once, paid my tuition, never again…
And no one knows when a trend ends. Could be tomorrow, could be in ten years.
Our job isn’t to guess; it’s to participate in the price action in front of us.
Now, sure, buying new highs every hour might not be your thing. Fine.
But the patterns don’t care what the chart is.
A bull flag is a bull flag. A pullback is a pullback. Nasdaq, gold, or some small-cap nobody’s heard of.
- Gold ripped through 2025 and massacred the bears who thought it was “too extended.”
- Bitcoin sat at 64k in 2021, cut itself in half, then half again, and the bulls didn’t believe it could happen.
The examples are endless…
And of course markets never go in a straight line forever…. They extend, backfill, and pull back. That’s natural in a trend…we get weak days, strong days, and narrow range days.
But trends are trends.
Markets are littered with intellectuals who thought they knew better. We’re not them.
We’re traders. Intraday scalper, multi-day swing, doesn’t matter.
Our job is to jump on board, take our bite, and jump off.
Go with the flow…