no pain no gain, probably the best trend following system is the one that messes you up most in a choppy market. Of course, most of these systems assume you will live long enough and have enough money left to endure the chop before it finally starts trending again. Kind of hard when you hear some old battered trader state that most markets chop most of the time. I'm a trend follower, but my system relies on the hope that I will die before it starts chopping more than it ever did in the past.
when I was a kid there was a tounge in cheek artlcle written by a CPA who was so conservative that he never would buy a stock, but he loved horse betting, and he used the actuarial tables to determine when in a mans life it was a good idea to martingale.
$1900 gold? that's just crazy talk, gasoline would have to go to $4.00 a gallon before that would ever happen. Dream on dreamer, you might as well be trying to sell drinking water
Most traders that have excelled in this game don't have a markt-type they can't trade. I would suggest that if you can't trade chop, you probably can't trade trend either. Or when the trend changes you get eaten alive. Either way, you need to better-research what's going on and then work on execution. Stop trading or trade very light.
I don't know how to trade chop apart from just ride it out and hope the drawdown ain't too big. The problem is that one does not know when the chop will end and when the market will trend again.