You've identified a range going from A to B, how do you call the movement of prices moving from A to B?

Not if the markets are trending only 20-30 percent of the time. For day trading, one might do heck of lot better for his time and effort to learn trading non-trending periods of markets at 70-80 percent of the time.

Thinking of most day traders frequently getting whipsawed in trending markets, the trend could be their worst enemy. But of course, that is not what the non-trading gurus would pontificate.

Trend and range are two sides of the same coin, if either exists they both exist, and likely in about equal measure. It's a naive argument to assert one isn't prevalent in modern markets.

The only enemy a trader has is himself, and his inability to separate the wheat from the chaff. Which just makes them bad traders, independent of the strategy they employ.

Understand trends on micro or macro scale. While it may be easier to use a trend trading strategy on a daily or weekly chart, try the same on a 1-minute chart; one will not survive to see the daylight trend trading on a 1 minute chart unless one has deep pockets to trade without stops or owns the trading house (like casinos).

As for swing, position, and long term trading, the point in simple words: If you keep a position overnight you are not day trading. Trades initiated off a 15 minutes chart and closed day(s) later are not considered day trading.

Understand trends on micro or macro scale. While it may be easier to use a trend trading strategy on a daily or weekly chart, try the same on a 1-minute chart; one will not survive to see the daylight trend trading on a 1 minute chart unless one has deep pockets to trade without stops or owns the trading house (like casinos).

As for swing, position, and long term trading, the point in simple words: If you keep a position overnight you are not day trading. Trades initiated off a 15 minutes chart and closed day(s) later are not considered day trading.

Who gives a flying f*ck what you call yourself. Personally, I trade the market. How I trade the market is dependent on the context of the market. Why would I trade the market the same way every day, when the market doesn't trade the same way every day? The problem with any discussion on trends is that trendlines are in inevitably brought into the discussion as a metric for the beginning or end of trends. Trendlines for the most part are about as arbitrary as any tool in trading gets - you can keep drawing them ad infinitum until you make your point.

I guess nobody really cares but it's something that's easy to do to give others a sense of your style.
I prefer trading 1 setup over many instruments rather than 3 setups over a smaller number of instruments.
I don't feel I trade the market. I used to when I focused on ES day trading and had my trend play, my range plays
and my closing play. Now I feel I trade a 1 style, regardless of the market. My focus is on what has worked best.