Your advocacy for trend trading is laudable but at the same time traders should not entertain fear of trading the opposite, after all, traders can profit both ways. Trend is our friend and I have never seen any trading approach that is associated with lower risk and gives the rest of mind than trend trading, nonetheless, when the trader knows how to speculate the market well, there will always be a reversal and retracements, which are the situations where the opposite of the trend are best traded.

The caution is that a good safety measure must be adhered to where the trader will ensure that a tight stop loss is placed immediately after opening the opposite orders to the trend. If done well, proper risk management would still be achieved, but the trader must first ensure that trusted strategies are deployed and sure trading signals are patiently waited for. I prefer a situation where a support and resistance strategy would signal it while a price action pattern would confirm it before pulling the trigger.