What shall anybody who wants to invest his or her money now do when stock markets do not move in any specific direction, the recovery is uncertain and interest rates on savings accounts are still incredible low? I like to have a simple answer. The simple answer is not there yet, but here is some food for thought.

To try to find simple investing strategies that work when there are no clear trends in the stock markets, I am reading and looking what can be done with bonds.

At the same time, a disaster scenario would be where stocks do not move in any long term trend, savings accounts do not provide any substantial interest and inflation starts to soar, eating away all your savings.

Who else would like to have a simple graphic overview of the factors contributing to economic growth and the causes for recession and economic crisis? The daily economic news does not provide you with this overview. You hear statements about double-dips, a looming recession or even depression, huge growth in China, a credit crisis, rising currencies, deleveraging of debts and more of this. Let’s have a look at the fundamental economic patterns behind all this.

Every month, Stock Trend Investing is publishing here one of its history charts for trend investing and trading. This month, this is the history chart for the S&P 500 index.

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This USD/JPY exchange rate and trend chart shows a 20 year history. The US Dollar - Japanese Yen exchange rate is a lot in the news recently since a Dollar buys less and less Yen's. See the chart for the historic perspective. The trend just continues.

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Every time you want to increase your investments in the stock market, you ask yourself how large or small that next investment will be and in which markets to invest. Do you have a proven system for this? Our community members have asked us how we make these decisions. Here we will share our approach and attached to this blog post is our exclusive Next Step Tool, free for you to use.

What is this simplest stock investing approach that works? In simple English, how does Stock Trend Investing work and what does it mean?

Here are 20 simple sentences of what Stock Trend Investing is about.
 

HS Dent and his team predict a major decline in the US stock markets for the near future. They base their analysis on trends and cycles in demographics. Watch their video here. 

Investing means taking risks. High returns without risks are impossible. The potential higher return is the reward for taking the higher risk.

There are two different types of risk:
 

Why do certain countries with large public debts get into financing problems while others with similar or higher debts continue to live life as usual? A debt crisis seems to unfold itself in Europe. Japanese debt is increasing soon to more than 200% of GDP. US debt is on the rise as well.

In a previous article we have seen that US public debt is rising to unprecedented heights at this moment. But how does this debt level compare to other countries? And will the debt crisis infect the US, UK, Japan and other European markets?

The increase in US federal debt as a percentage of GDP and in absolute terms is unprecedented and could therefore be a major risk for long term investors.

In this article we will see how the US federal debt has developed as a percentage of GDP for the last two centuries. We will point out why the growth is unprecedented even when the debt percentage has been higher in the past.