You have the freedom to follow the trends of your choice. Others don't.

Managers of mutual funds cannot apply trend following the stock market in their daily job. Hedge fund managers can. And you as well can use trend following the stock market. In this way you grow your savings faster than most mutual funds can do.

Stock Trend Investing provides reliable and simple stock market trend indicators

Here are a number of simple and effective stock market trend indicators for long-term trend following of index ETFs and mutual funds.

These trend indicators apply to the major US stock market indices as the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ as well as to major indices in for example Europe and Asia.

Get the benefits from a global geographical diversified portfolio of index funds

Once your stock investing portfolio is large enough, you can easily use index funds to diversify your investments over different regions in the world. Such a diversification has a few advantages that we will list below.

Here are four reasons for diversifying your stock investments geographically around the world:

A geographical diversified portfolio of index funds offers the opportunity to rebalance

One reason for diversifying your stock investments geographically around the world is the portfolio rebalancing opportunity.

Here are two quotes from Index Investing for Dummies regarding portfolio rebalancing:

“The best way to raise cash (should you need it) is not through dividends but through regular portfolio rebalancing.”