Trading is one of the most profitable of course, but it involves a lot of risk. Market trend is not too important for trading. It is possible to trade successfully on bullish trend or bearish trend.
And how to estimate what trend direction now? Bullish or bearish? Is current situation a correction or trend reversal?
Trading could be most profitable if it would be not so hard. In fact at the market not most of traders earn money
Traders who can manage to work with their skills taking advantages in each trending movements around the market, it's not easy as what many thinks it is but if you learn how to play with both bull and bear then chances to earned lots of money can be done here, you need to work harder and do more research and studies regarding to potential market moves.