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What is the Euro-Dollar Impact on Your S&P 500, DAX and Gold Investments?
Submitted by Van Beek on January 5, 2011 - 11:45Without Market Timing, Euro investments in the S&P 500 do not provide good returns.
Currently the Euro is 16% weaker versus the US Dollar compared to its top in July 2008. At that top, the Euro was 81% more valuable than at its bottom in February 2002.
This currency rollercoaster can have a major impact on your investing returns when you invest your savings overseas. Foreign currency fluctuations can amplify your returns or annihilate them.
Who Else Knows that Long Term Market Timing Can Win You 31% in 15 Months?
Submitted by Van Beek on December 21, 2010 - 17:33A simple long-term market timing system would have saved me a lot of money when I invested a large part of my savings into different mutual funds during March 2000. Two months later in May, such a system would have given me clear indicators to sell my investments at that moment. I would have saved 40% of my savings.
Now I know better and since you are reading this, you can know now better as well. In this blog post I want to show you that it is not just me who says that long-term market timing can gain and save you a lot of money. Below you see a good 8-minute video (not from me) that explains very clearly the concept of long term marketing and how it works.
To Prosper…What Asset Do You Want to Avoid Like Hell during High Inflation
Submitted by Van Beek on December 6, 2010 - 17:08During higher inflation, cash is no longer king. In what will you invest?
Assume 5 years of 5% inflation and 4% interest. The $10,000 in your savings account has grown to $12,167. Nice! But there is a problem. With this $12,167 you can buy only as much as you could buy 5 years earlier with $9,414. You have not become $2,167 richer. You have become $586 poorer.
Inflation is like a tax. It takes away every year a part of your savings and wealth.
S&P 500 Trend Investing Easily Beats Buy & Hold: $49,438 vs. $28,262
Submitted by Van Beek on December 1, 2010 - 16:45S&P 500 Trend Investing easily beats a Buy and Hold approach.
Suppose you invested $10,000 in an S&P 500 index fund in October 1992. You just kept the fund; you just Buy and Hold. 18 Years later, your ten thousand dollars would have become $28,262. Nice, but with only 6 trades in 18 years of this same index fund you could have done much better.
Stock Trend Investing reviews every month for you the trend in the S&P 500 and a number of other US indices like the Dow Jones, the NYSE and the NASDAQ. Based on this analysis, we provide the Trend Investing community monthly with our conclusion on if we buy, hold or sell our US index funds.
How Also You Can Now Beat the Stock Market Index
Submitted by Van Beek on November 25, 2010 - 16:33Use Simple Market Timing Signals to buy and sell at the right time
If You Are a Buy and Hold Investor, You Leave Money on the Table
As a Buy and hold investors, you make money with your savings when you are in it for the long run. And you are right when you take the long term view.
Over a 20 year period, the Dow Jones Index can turn $10,000 into $36,700. That is nice. But you can make way much more… and it is not difficult.
Have a look at a history chart of a stock market index. You will know instantly what you need to do to make more money than the index will deliver.