How to Follow a Trend in a Commodity Market?

Trent following is a strategy of buying stocks when they are up and shorting them when they are down. In the past year we've seen an obvious down trend in equities, and then a quick snapback - now it's back to the down trend. Is that sort of short, snap back rally something you can actuallyo flip sides on and take advantage of, or not? So it depends who you are and your speed. What i think is interesting about trend though, there's money to be made in equityes. There's no question. It's a decent risk tool for controlling how your portfolio runs. And maybe t's om reason to re balance at certain low levels in