# Trend Follower

Directional strategy for confirmed momentum.

## Best used when
- trend is strong and persistent
- structure supports continuation
- liquidity is normal
- Hermes wants to follow momentum instead of fading it

## Avoid when
- price is range-bound
- trend strength is weak or noisy
- event risk is high
- the market is too chaotic for clean continuation

## Core parameters
- `trade_side`: buy, sell, or both
- `order_notional_quote`: quote-currency notional per order
- `max_order_notional_quote`: optional quote notional cap per order
- `entry_offset_pct`: offset from market for entries
- `exit_offset_pct`: offset for exits or reversals
- `cooldown_ticks`: pause between actions

## Hermes policy mapping
- Hermes controls whether the side is active.
- Hermes may set the quote notional and offsets.

## Notes
- Hermes decides when trend following is allowed.
- Trader maps policy to concrete order behavior.
- The strategy reports side, quote notional, and policy-derived settings.
- `trade_side` lets Hermes or the operator run a long-only, short-only, or symmetric directional instance.
- live fee rates are used directly, so the strategy does not need a configured fee fallback.