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If You Are a Buy and Hold Investor, You Leave Money on the Table

As a Buy and hold investors, you make money with your savings when you are in it for the long run. And you are right when you take the long term view.

Over a 20 year period, the Dow Jones Index can turn $10,000 into $36,700. That is nice. But you can make way much more… and it is not difficult.

Have a look at a history chart of a stock market index. You will know instantly what you need to do to make more money than the index will deliver.

How 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.

Are you still one of those investors who do not review the market trends and their stock market holdings regularly? Here are 3 good reasons to review your stock market investments every month.

As a long term investor, it is not advisable to review and check your stock portfolio daily. But at Stock Trend Investing we recommend to have every month a close look at the market and your investments. Here is why:

1) You do not want to miss a new emerging trend

Many investors have a false sense of safety when they invest in mutual funds. Therefore, they do not like them. Or if you lost a lot of money investing in mutual funds, you may even hate them. But are you aware of the common misunderstanding about investing in mutual funds?

The Current Account deficit for the US is at this moment $123 billion per quarter and 3.3% of GDP. This is less than the 6% in 2006 but still at a level that most economists consider to be unsustainable in the long term. The decline is probably caused by the economic situation and could be temporary. So, what does this mean and what is ahead for the US?

In this article we focus on what the consequences could be for the US given its large Current Account deficit and the factors that are driving this deficit.