Index Investing for Dummies is a very useful book about investing, both for beginners as for investors with more experience. It explains and provides the tools for a simple, straightforward and effective approach for long-term investing.

In summary, you can say that it advocates buy and hold investing with low cost ETFs and Mutual Funds that follow well defined stock market indices.

As part of our intention to show you different long-term stock market investing strategies, here is a guest post by Rob Bennett on the Valuation Informed Indexing approach.
 

This page shows a number of stocks funds that are listed as well in the book Index Investing for Dummies and that are of interest for Trend Investors. This book lists a range of low cost Index ETFs and Mutual Funds that follow indices that are worth following. Index Investing for Dummies lists many more funds than the ones below.

Other visitors of this trend following blog are sending us their questions and comments. You are welcome to do the same. In blog posts like this we answer some of these questions.

In this blog you find information about investing with the objective to make great long-term results without taking too much risk or too much of your time. Trend following of long-term trends in stock market indices is simple and straightforward.

The trend signals that we use to recognize the direction and changes in the trend are based on moving averages and patterns in the closing price. Here are two frequently asked questions on this:

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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