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Nasdaq Historic Trend Trading Chart - March 2010
Submitted by Van Beek on April 8, 2010 - 12:24Every month, Stock Trend Investing is publishing one of its historic trend trading charts for free. This month, it is the trend trading chart or the Nasdaq.
The blue line shows the closing price of the Nasdaq index for that month.
The green line signals when our Initial Trend Expectation for the Nasdaq was "Up". The red line signals when our Initial Trend Expectation for the Nasdaq was "Down" or when there was a special warning.
Click and drag the chart to a tab in your browser to see an enlargement.
Inspiring Boom and Bust Video for Trend Trading Investors
Submitted by Van Beek on March 24, 2010 - 10:57Trend Trading investors may enjoy this video from Econstories that has almost a million views on Youtube. The clip is not only comic but has also a very serious undertone. In the video, two famous economists from the early hours, explain their opinions and differences between them in a rap.
Enjoy the video!
Stock Exchange Trend
Submitted by Van Beek on March 20, 2010 - 04:48The stock exchange trend is the trend in the index of that stock exchange. Each stock exchange has its own index. This is a composite of a number of important stocks that are listed on that stock exchange.
Stock Trend Investing follows the stock exchange trend for a number of important stock exchanges around the world. For the US for example, the NYSE and NASDAQ stock exchanges are covered. But we cover as well as the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices.
Note that these last two indices are indices that are composites of stocks that are listed on the first two mentioned stock exchanges. However, they are not the index of that stock exchange. We also cover the trends of at least 4 European stock exchanges and 4 Asian stock exchanges.
Stock Market Trend Analysis
Submitted by Van Beek on March 19, 2010 - 17:34Stock Trend Investing is specialized in Stock Market Trend Analysis. Every month we analyse and review the trends in a number of major stock market indices. Yes, we review it every month, not every day. The reason for that is that the typical user of the Stock Trend Investing system does not have time to trade every day. Our users only want to spend maximum one hour per month on their investments.
Therefore, Stock Trend Investing is performing a specific monthly stock market trend analysis. If the user of the analysis only wants to trade once per month, the analysis has to be targeted to that. Likewise, a trend investor who wants to trade every day needs a daily stock market trend analysis.
Stock Trend Signal
Submitted by Van Beek on March 17, 2010 - 16:46A Stock Trend Signal indicates the current trend in the stock market. Stock Trend Investors use stock trend signals to decide when to invest in the stock market and when to sell the equities they hold.
In the Stock Trend Investing system, we have stock trend signals that show us every month if we expect the market index to go “Up”, to go “Down” or to be “Unclear”. An “Unclear” signal means that we do not see a clear trend up or down.
The stock trend signals for individual stock market indices are called Initial Trend Expectations. At Stock Trend Investing, we cover a number of major stock market indices in the US, Europe and Asia.
Trend Trading
Submitted by Van Beek on March 13, 2010 - 14:19Trend trading is a generic term for a number of different approaches that are used to invest in the stock market. Stock Trend Investing is a form of trend trading. In this article we will high light the differences between our form of trend trading and other existing alternatives.
Different trend trading systems focus on trends of different lengths. Stock Trend Investing focuses on long term trends that are expected to last at least a number of months, but sometimes years. Members of the Stock Trend Investing community review their positions only once per month. This is especially suitable for people who cannot or do not want to spend every day or week a certain amount of time on their investments.
Six reasons why we love trend investing
Submitted by Van Beek on November 17, 2009 - 16:28Are you aware of all the advantages that trend investing offers to people like you and me? We have money to invest. But we do not have (or do not want to spend) a lot of time on studying boring quarterly financial reports.
We also know that you can loose a lot of money when you just buy and keep mutual funds. But what is the alternative?
In this article, we will share why we love trend investing. In summary, it is because of the following. Trend investing offers all of us the opportunity to capitalize on stock market trends and to start or continue our journey to financial independence without having to spend a lot of time on it. Let’s go into the different reason behind this.
1) Trend investing offers much better returns than just buy and hold.
Who else wants to ride stock market trends to create a fortune?
Submitted by Van Beek on November 3, 2009 - 16:12Remember this guy in Singapore a few years ago who bankrupted this big bank he was working for? He was betting on a certain trend and when he was wrong he was betting more, and more, and more on this same trend, to try to recover. The trend did not turn. In the end he lost it all. Stock market trends can make or break any investor.
I love stock market trends. I think they are great. They enable me to make good money on the stock market without having to spend a lot of time on researching specific stocks. Because of my beloved stock market trends, I do not need to hire and pay any expensive advisors. I just ride the trends.
Look at any ordinary day to any of the stock market indices like the Dow, NASDAQ, FTSE or Nikkei. Most of the stocks in those indices move that day in the same direction. The same is valid for longer periods.
How to see the trend
When you look at a period of a few months, most of the stocks move in the same direction and create the overall market trend. This is not just valid in one country. We live now in a global economy and in general most stock markets around the world trend in the same direction at the same time.
How wonderful would it be to know in which direction the stock market trends go and ride them to riches? Actually, to see the direction of the trend is easy. Simply, do not look to close. If you just follow the news everyday, you probably do not see the trend. There is too much movement and noise.
Take a step back and look at a chart that shows how a stock market index has developed over a number of years. The trends that last 3 to 6 months or longer are easy to spot. These are the stock market trends that I like to ride.
Key question
The key question for every trend rider is: when do they start and when do they turn? To benefit maximal from a trend, you want to ride it as early from the beginning as possible. And you want to ride it as long as possible till the trend really turns. In hind-sight, looking at a chart, pin-pointing the ideal moments to step in and out is easy. However, to identify those moments in the moment is something different.
I use the proven Stock Trend Investing system to define the moments when to step in on stock market trends and when to step out. Do you have a system, strategy or tool that helps you to define these critical moments? Please register or log-in and share your approach or questions on this.
