I myself have always used a trend-following strategy since trading, I think from a risk perspective it is safer than a counter trend, other than that, in terms of opportunities I get bigger, because I make the trend a reference for the direction where the price will move, so when I follow the trend I get a bigger chance. but once in a while I've also traded with a counter trend, because I was tempted to get maximum profit with OP at the beginning of a trend or when a trend changes, but in fact it's much more difficult, because predicting where the end point of the trend is is very difficult