Investing in today’s stock market presents an entirely different set of risks and circumstances than investors have faced with traditional investing. Investors who purchased the average S&P 500 stock in the year 2000 would have lost value in their portfolio, and that doesn’t even include inflation.

Gone are the days of buy and hold for 30 years and watch your stock portfolio grow. Investment banks and hedge funds now take advantage of the ever increasing popularity of electronic trading,combined with automated “scalp” trading methods which utilize powerful super computers, and leveraged investment vehicles such as futures and options.

The ability of big money to manipulate market moves is every growing. Subsequently, the question for the individual investor is:

“How to I follow the big money?”

One of the most popular methods of tracking big money investing is the practice of technical trading. Technical traders utilize price and volume history to create stock charts and implement mathematics based indicators for predicting future price direction. Utilizing powerful technical analysis software, traders are able to view, analyze, and annotate stock charts covering just about any time period in an instant.

The problem is that technical analysis based strategies are designed for short term trading, which is a huge barrier to implementation for the average “buy and hold” investor. However, there is a a technical analysis software package that gives investors a method of trading which utilizes a very simple to read technical indicator. This software provides long term (6 – 36 months) traders a method to benefit from the predictive capabilities of technical analysis, combined with a longer term “buy and hold” mentatlity.

The technical analysis software implements Marketclub’s Trade Triangle Technology. Utilizing this software technology, I have developed a trading strategy that is perfect for trading indicies, ETF’s, commodities, and equities over the long haul. It works in bullish markets (the tradition method of buying a stock and holding it), as well as bearish markets (shorting the trading instrument. If you are not familiar with how shorts work, do an internet search for “how to short stocks”).

The system combines a long term 12/26 MACD signal on a monthly chart (IE each bar/candle equals 1 month trading range), and the proprietary trade triangle trading system. When there is confluence between the monthly trade triangle, and a MACD cross over, a signal is given. If the triangle is green, and the MACD cross over is bullish, a buy signal is given. If the triangle is red, and the MACD crossover is bearish, a sell / short signal is given.