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No Stop Loss Orders for Long-term Investors
Submitted by Van Beek on June 14, 2011 - 12:26 
Can you think of a scenario in which a long-term investor needs a stop loss order?
Using a stop-loss order is highly recommended by and for most traders in the stock market. However, the Stock Trend Investing system does not have any stop-loss orders.
This is controversial. Why don’t I use them? We will explain here using a few different scenarios.
In summary, you can say that we do not use stop loss orders at Stock Trend Investing because we are long-term investors and not frequent traders. That requires some further explanation.
As long-term trend investors, we want to capitalize on trends that last many months or years. On average, we see that the long-term trend only changes direction once in the two or three years.
How Do You Avoid Losing 40% Of Your Savings In The Next Market Meltdown?
Submitted by Van Beek on November 11, 2010 - 14:48How much money would I have had now if I would have known in the year 2000 what I know now? Sometimes I think back to that period 10 years ago when I did not have a system yet to warn me for when stock markets are starting to fall and continue to fall.
Did you invest already in the stock market in the years 1999 and 2000? If you started to invest in the market after that period, you have probably experienced only one market meltdown: the one in 2008. When you started to invest in the stock market before the year 2000, you have seen two meltdowns.
Which stock market indices declined most during May?
Submitted by Van Beek on June 1, 2010 - 08:45How much did the different stock market indices actually decline during May? And which markets declined more, the US markets, the Asian markets or the European markets?
At Stock Trend Investing, we made a quick overview for you to get an answer to these questions. Some of the observations are surprising.
