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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.

     Without 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.

A 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.

 During 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 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.