Realistically, the stock market returns about 10% per year, based on historical averages. However, the bull market of the 1990s inflated expectations for "passive", long-term investors. Certainly, the bull and bear market extremes of the past few years powerfully highlighted the importance of a more proactive approach, one that focuses on wealth-building strategies for ALL market conditions. 

Trade options as low as $1.25/contract

Given the dramatic changes in the investing landscape  - where increased volatility and geopolitical events spark major moves in investor sentiment - it's clear that savvy investors, intent on continuing to build and compound wealth, must expand their growth strategy to reflect changing market realities. That's exactly the idea behind our research, which has helped many investors capitalize on the new market realities. Consider adding BigTrends' strategies to your portfolio mix, with the ultimate goal of beating the market consistently and compounding absolute positive returns. Aided by the "magic of compounding", our goal is to help you seek those opportunities that lead to exceptional long-term growth.

Master Major Market Moves: Learn to Invest in the Big Trends

At BigTrends.com, we monitor the stock market to provide you with the best trading results possible. At a minimum, that means helping you outperform the major market indexes.

What does it mean to trade the Big Trends? As a market contrarian tested through bull AND bear markets, I have developed sophisticated tools to distill the most important information from BigTrends.com's Integrated Analysis, which encompasses a wide array of fundamental, technical and sentiment data. The result? A proven system for capitalizing on major moves in the strongest trending stocks and sectors.

We'll help you take profits in many promising stocks and sectors NOW while managing risk appropriately along the way. For example: we guided our subscribers to big profits from the Internet sector in 1999 and early 2000, and wisely told them to bank that money when our indicators showed that the tech trend would soon turn against us. Within months, other investors who jumped on the tech bandwagon (and never got off) watched profits turn into losses, while we preserved capital and bought at the next buy point.

Margin rates as low as 3.75%

It really all goes back to most valuable lessons I've learned from trading over the past decade, and from countless hours of tracking historical data patterns that appear consistently in the markets. Here's the bottom line: The markets are driven in the short term by swings in investor psychology, between fear and greed. Simply put, the time to buy stocks is when it's clear no one else wants them (not when market participants are still just buying the dips); the time to sell stocks is when analysts continue making wild predictions of future gains.

But it's not really that simple, is it? The proprietary research I've developed for BigTrends Investment Research subscribers are all geared toward providing as accurate a picture as possible of investor behavior driving the price action of major indexes and sectors, as well as thousands of stocks. With fully one of every two households (not to mention thousands of traders) now invested in the market, it's become more difficult than ever for the average investor to make simple buying and selling decisions based on one-dimensional assumptions or fast-changing market data alone.

It's my job to help you get ahead of the crowd by understanding it, and to profit from swings in investor psychology.

Mastering the Market, Managing Your Portfolio

Portfolio management and disciplined trading behavior are the keys consistent portfolio growth over time. This is especially true of trading vs. investing. At BigTrends.com, our investment recommendations are tailored mainly for trading activity - which means strategic buying and selling on a fairly frequent basis to compound consistent gains over time. In short, we serve investors who want to take profits in the near term, while leaving investing to your mutual fund managers who typically have longer time horizons of several years to several decades.

I've found that the following simple rules or guidelines will help ensure trading success:

Only trade 10-20% of available risk capital dedicated to a specific investment strategy on any one trade.

Never worry excessively about losses or drawdowns, and do not try to make up for a loss by doubling up on your next trade.

Don't chase the price of a recommendation, and only pay the recommended entry price or less. If you pay more, your results will not match those that we originally targeted.

Do not worry about gains after a trade is exited. Any further gains in a particular stock will likely be exceeded by opportunities elsewhere.

Never invest with your emotions.

With BigTrends.com's research services, you'll see we practice what we preach. We'll inform you on optimum entry points and target levels for each trade. To ensure proper risk management, we'll also provide a "closing stop" level. If a stock closes beyond this level, you should exit the trade. Otherwise, we hold the trade and maintain the stated price target. These guidelines are based on the most sophisticated technical and sentiment analysis, which enable you to take "emotion" out of the picture.