Download or read book Navigating U.S. Investment Markets written by Tom Lydon and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The ETF Trend Following Playbook: Profiting from Trends in Bull or Bear Markets with Exchange Traded Funds (ISBN: 9780137029013) by Tom Lydon. Available in print and digital formats. Identifying market trends: what you can (and can’t) learn from the major market indexes. Hunting for trends? An easy way to start is with the U.S. major market indexes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the barometer for the U.S. equity markets, is monitored by investors worldwide. But it’s only 30 stocks—far from diversified. For a better representation of U.S. stocks, you might pick the S&P 500 or Russell 2000.