We are witnessing a global financial crisis. Stock brokers are experiencing a living nightmare; somewhere God has let loose the Raging Bull to jeopardize global economy. You are witnessing the rise and fall of a great many companies, during this depressing recession. You look a little below the radar, you observe the little companies squirming for a space to exist and curiously enough they are surviving. You observe the market flooded with penny stocks and it strikes why and from where these companies are getting the steam to brave the recession. In these difficult times, as the prices of things  

What does “the trend is your friend” mean? We all probably know what this means intellectually, but how many of us actually follow it in our real lives?

 

For those who haven’t heard this phrase, I’ll explain. When investing, or for that matter when studying almost anything in life, there is almost always a flow or general movement to how things work.

 

The general trend in the workplace is, the more experience one has the more one understands and the more money one earns. Hopefully.

 

The old general theme in American stocks was that everything goes up: