Markets are in turmoil. But maybe you have some savings that you want to invest. When you are living in the UK you may favour some FTSE index funds for example. However, is it now a good time to invest these savings?

Last week I got a question from a reader on what I thought about investing in the FTSE at this moment. I’ll come back on that later in this blog post. Let me first comment a little on last week. That was a week full of turmoil; not only in the financial markets but also in Bangkok, where I am living at this moment. Because of the unrest in Bangkok and the forced closing of the schools, we decided to go for a week to the beach on Koh Samui; great decision and great week.

Every month, Stock Trend Investing is publishing one of its trend trading history charts for free. This month, it is the trend trading chart or the Indian BSE Sensex. 

The blue line shows the closing price of the BSE Sensex index for that month.

The green line signals when our Initial Trend Expectation for the BSE Sensex was "Up". The red line signals when our Initial Trend Expectation for the BSE Sensex was "Down" or when there was a special warning.

Find here the analysis on the correlation between the Nifty and the BSE Sensex.

What percentage of my savings shall I invest in stocks? And what percentage shall I invest in bonds or keep in cash or other investment classes like real estate?

The questions in what to invest and how much of your savings to invest are on the top of the mind of every investor.
 

Within the coming weeks, we will issue the Stock Trend Investing Tactical Asset Allocation Model. For our Twitter followers we will have a special surprise on this.

 

Do you still doubt if you should invest in index funds or are you not really aware of what index funds are? At Stock Trend Investing, we have selected 10 articles that will give you quickly an overview of what is written and what one thinks about index funds.

From each article, we have taken a short quote, but we encourage you to read the original articles at the renowned sites as CBS MoneyWatch, Forbes, and NY Times etcetera. The titles below link to the original articles.

Two issues that are raised in the discussions around the enormous Greek debt have surprised me. Let’s have a look at them and I am curious to hear what you think of them.

When we follow the news, we come across the following topics:
•    Germany will or will not bail out Greece
•    The Euro drops to the lowest rate in a year compared to the dollar

Let’s have a look at this Germany bailing out Greece and what the Euro has to do with it.