Van Beek's blog
Stock Market Timing System for Beginners
Submitted by Van Beek on February 25, 2011 - 07:35
Stock market timing helps to make balanced buy-sell decisions to create great investing returns.
Stock market timing helps me now already for over 8 years to capitalize on the long-term trends that you can see in stock market indices. This market timing system I developed in 2003 has enabled me to benefit from the bull market between 2004 and 2007, to avoid the financial crisis of 2008 and to ride again the trend up between 2009 and today.
Three Investing for Beginners Lessons: Start with Index Funds, not Stocks
Submitted by Van Beek on February 23, 2011 - 17:14
The biggest loss I ever made on a single investment was the investment in the stock of a company that I knew best. This is a great lesson for beginners who want to start investing. It was in 2000 and I bought shares in the company that I was working for. I know that company inside out. I know its industry. I know the competitors. It was and is the dominant global market leader in its market. And still I lost more than 60% of my investments in that company.
The Nokia Lesson for Buy and Hold Investors
Submitted by Van Beek on February 11, 2011 - 07:47Yesterday, I saw on Bloomberg TV one of the anchors mentioning that Nokia share price was down something like 65% of its high just over 3 years ago. That gave me a shock.
Buy and hold of even great companies carries great risks
How Also You Can Outperform the Stock Market with Sun Tzu’s Art of War
Submitted by Van Beek on January 25, 2011 - 16:27 
Sun Tzu teaches us in the Art of War about the basics of Trend Investing
Sun Tzu was a Chinese military strategist in the 6th century BC. He wrote the famous book “Art of War”. The book has 13 chapters, each dedicated to a different aspect of warfare. What has this to do with outperforming the stock market, you may ask.
In Chapter 10, Sun Tzu gives us the answer: “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.” This quote has been the secret behind how also you can outperform the stock market.
How to Get Better Annualized Returns from Your S&P 500 Index Funds?
Submitted by Van Beek on January 17, 2011 - 10:57
Click here for the latest S&P 500 trend investing and long-term market timing signals.
The return of the S&P 500 over 2010 was good: 13%. However, the annualized returns of the S&P 500 for the last 3, 5 or even 10 years are very poor. Just buying and holding an S&P 500 index fund does not make financial sense. However, with trend investing and long-term market timing, investing in the S&P 500 does start making sense.
