How to trade equity or stock market or share market, which for our understanding can be treated as one and the same. As we know from the news that the stock market has been a place to grow and loose money. There have been instances of people losing their entire savings and further incurring losses due to overtrading and trying to recover the lost money. and there are others who have made a empire from the stock market.

This means that its not the market that is good or bad, its how we look at it. if we are on lookout for quick gains (and therefore quick losses too) or large gains over a large period of time  and intermediate gains or losses over intermediate period of time. As we have seen the stock market has been moving upwards only  with it falling in between and recovering either quickly or slowly, eventually to higher than before.  Which makes it very clear that over the longer term markets are always on an uptrend with a combination of shorter and/ or intra day downtrends.

This gives us an idea of 3 broad ways of trading :

Intra day : Market moves up and down same day

Short Term : Market moves up and down every week

Long term : Market moves up and down over months.

If the market moves less downwards and more upwards , then its called UPTREND.

If the market moves less upwards and more downwards then its called DOWNTREND.

If the market moves range bound and doesn't move in uptrend or downtrend then its called CONSOLIDATION or RANGE BOUND.

These terminologies are useful as we can buy in a uptrending market and sell in the downtrending market. 

There is also a CHANGE of TREND from uptrend to downtrend and downtrend to uptrend. This can either be swift and   time consuming . Its at these points of change of trend there is both fear and greed. Certain people sell heavily and inspite of making huge losses and others buy greedily seeing mouth-watering prices. The market may continue its earlier trend or actually change its trend.