Stock Trend Investing

The S&P 500 has been growing your savings in dollars over the last year.

During the month of May 2011, the S&P 500 lost 1.35%. By the end of May, however, the S&P 500 gained 7% so far this year.

Year-on-year, compared to end of May 2010, the S&p 500 is up 23%.

Click here to see the S&P 500 history chart.

We publish every month the updated long-term trend indicators for the S&P 500 on this website.

All the long-term Trend Signals for the S&P 500 are pointing up after the closing of April 2011.

Investors who are trend following the S&P 500 can take it easy during May.

However, the different stock market indices are normally moving very much in tandem.

And for the NASDAQ, one of our custom-developed trend signals, the MATI, indicated an increased risk for a pullback. Such a pullback could last weeks or months. And a pullback in the NASDAQ is unlikely to happen without a pullback in the S&P 500.

Therefore, investors can be cautious to allocate more money or to start investing in the US markets at this moment.

Boring... the S&P 500 ended March 2011 about as it began the month. It is up 0.2%.

Long-term trends in stock market indices are boring. They change in general very little. In most months, there is nothing new to tell. It is the same this month. The world is in turmoil, with revolutions in the Middle East and Norhern Africa and a terrible disaster in Japan.

But in the long-term trend for the S&P 500, there is no change.

The 4 different S&P 500 Trend Signals are all pointing up-wards.

Click here for the updated Trend Signal overview and for the links to the S&P 500 history charts.

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