your edge in the future is not determined by your edge in the past and that is good and bad, good because there is hope, and bad because there are no guarantees, but ultimately it is good - it wouldn't be fun if it was guaranteed
so this is running a range strat in a trending market, i can define trend strat and range strat, question is when to deploy which, but with these tools you can at least automate execution to some degree and have clean charts
you can have strategies that work in certain environments and you can get better than not at predicting when which environment will occur, these are what are tools are built for