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Mike Cintolo

Chief Investment Strategist and Chief Analyst, Cabot Growth Investor and Cabot Top Ten Trader

A growth stock and market timing expert, Michael Cintolo is Chief Investment Strategist of Cabot Wealth Network and Chief Analyst of Cabot Growth Investor and Cabot Top Ten Trader. Since joining Cabot in 1999, Mike has uncovered exceptional growth stocks and helped to create new tools and rules for buying and selling stocks. Perhaps most notable was his development of the proprietary trend-following market timing system, Cabot Tides, which has helped Cabot place among the top handful of market-timing newsletters numerous times.

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The Market’s Encouraging Bounce | Cabot Weekly Review
In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s under-the-surface improvement that he’s seeing; no indicators have changed, which will need to happen for him to extend his line in a big way, but there’s no question most stuff has seen improvement and more stocks are beginning to act properly. Mike did a little buying this week and is hoping to add more should the market be able to build on the recent action.
April 26, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
April 26, 2024
After cracking last week, the market has shown encouraging support in recent days, and what’s interesting is that it wasn’t all on “good” news—the market actually found some support yesterday after META and NOW gapped lower on earnings, and long-term rates are still marching higher, with the 10-year Treasury yield tagging six-plus-month highs and rising about 40 basis points on the week.
April 26, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
April 25, 2024
WHAT TO DO NOW: Remain cautious, though remain flexible. The market’s initial bounce this week was good to see but it didn’t offset the recent weakness, and today’s Meta-inspired selloff didn’t help the cause. All told, our Cabot Tides remain negative, and most growth stocks are still in rough intermediate-term shape—though the long-term picture is still positive. After selling the rest of our Arista (ANET) position last Friday, our cash position is 44%—we’ll sit tight tonight with our remaining names and our cash and see how earnings season continues to play out.
April 25, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
Cabot Top Ten Trader Issue: April 22, 2024
With weeks of churning action and complacent sentiment, the market was flirting with trouble for a while, and now it’s hit the intermediate-term tripwire. Thus, we mostly advise defense here—after a big run-up and the aforementioned churning, the odds favor more short-term downside testing and/or pain ahead. That said, the odds also favor a resumption of the longer-term uptrend down the road, so it’s best not to get too holed up in your bunker, either. Tonight, we’ll leave our Market Monitor at a level 6, and the main message is to hold a good chunk of cash, honor stops and be very selective on the buy side.

This week’s list is another broad mix of stocks, with something for everyone in terms of stories, sectors and setups. Our Top Pick is a reliable grower in the infrastructure area that’s pulling back toward support. Given the market, keep new buys on the small side.
April 22, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
April 19, 2024
WHAT TO DO NOW: Remain cautious as the market’s correction accelerates. Today is another poor day in the market, and while nothing’s changed with the evidence, more stocks are melting away. Today we’re going to sell the rest of our stake in Arista Networks (ANET), which hasn’t been able to get off its knees since last Friday’s decline and is our weakest stock. Our cash position will now be around 44%.
April 19, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Free Videos
The Market’s Intermediate-Term Uptrend | Cabot Weekly Review
In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s under-the-surface improvement that he’s seeing; no indicators have changed, which will need to happen for him to extend his line in a big way, but there’s no question most stuff has seen improvement and more stocks are beginning to act properly. Mike did a little buying this week and is hoping to add more should the market be able to build on the recent action.
April 19, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
April 19, 2024
After weeks of ping-pong action, the sellers have finally taken control for the first time since last fall: The intermediate-term of the major indexes has turned down and the broad market has done the same, with more than two-thirds of all stocks now south of their 50-day lines. It’s the same when it comes to leaders—for weeks they had found support at key levels, but now most have cracked intermediate-term trend lines, including the key chip sector, which keeled over this week.
April 19, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
Cabot Growth Investor Issue: April 18, 2024
The market has definitively changed character, with our Cabot Tides and Two-Second Indicator now negative—when combined with breakdowns among leading growth stocks, the odds favor more short-term weakness ahead. We’ve been holding some cash for a while and have boosted that this week, with 37% on the sideline, and we could raise more if the selling continues.

That said, we’re not aiming to hide out in our bunkers--following some short-term pain, the odds favor further long-term gains given the underlying trend and the lack of big-picture abnormal action out there. Thus, having taken partial profits in many names, we’re OK giving them a chance to find support, as some are likely to have another leg up after this downturn. In tonight’s issue, we’re moving a couple more stocks to Hold, hanging onto our cash and writing about many names that are taking the selling in stride and could have upside if the market finds its footing.
April 18, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Stock Market
How to Play Gaps During Earnings Season
Trying to pick a stock ahead of earnings is a coin toss. Targeting stocks that have had earnings gaps is a better way to play it.
April 16, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
Cabot Top Ten Trader Issue: April 15, 2024
After weeks of churning and choppy action, last week finally brought some “real” negative headlines that kicked the fear level up a few notches. As always, what’s more important to us is the market’s reaction to the news, and at this point, the intermediate-term advance is on the fence, with most indexes testing their 50-day lines and with more and more leaders doing the same. Big picture, it’s hardly a disaster, but we continue to be a little cautious, being selective on the buy side and holding some cash. We’ll pull down our Market Monitor to a level 6.

This week’s list has something for everyone, with growth, crypto, commodities and all types of potential setups. Our Top Pick is a smaller outfit with a great story—and it’s one of the few stocks that’s shown big-volume buying in recent days.
April 15, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
April 15, 2024
WHAT TO DO NOW: Continue to play things a bit carefully as the market’s position deteriorates. Our Two-Second Indicator and Cabot Tides are weakening, and leading stocks, which had been churning for weeks, are continuing to give up ground. It’s possible this morphs into some sort of news-driven shakeout (especially given the hourly Middle East headlines), but we’re simply taking it as it comes. We already have 28% cash in the Model Portfolio, but we’re going to pare back further, cutting our loss in our half position in Celsius (CELH) and selling one-third of our position in Pulte (PHM). Our cash position will now be around 36%.
April 15, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Free Videos
The Market’s Continued Wobbles | Cabot Weekly Review
In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s under-the-surface improvement that he’s seeing; no indicators have changed, which will need to happen for him to extend his line in a big way, but there’s no question most stuff has seen improvement and more stocks are beginning to act properly. Mike did a little buying this week and is hoping to add more should the market be able to build on the recent action.
April 12, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
April 12, 2024
It’s been an interesting week for the market, with the biggest piece of headline news being Wednesday’s worse-than-expected inflation report, which roiled Treasuries (yields up 12 to 18 basis points on the week). Beyond inflation, there have been rumblings of late (including this morning) that Iran is set to attack Israel in some way or another, which is causing some angst this morning.


Despite those headwinds and uncertainties, the action of stocks hasn’t been awful—most indexes are down on the week (led by the broad market), but the losses haven’t been huge, with the Nasdaq actually up a smidge for the week after today’s open.
April 12, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Growth Stocks
3 Bull Market Stocks for the New Bull Phase
Bull Market stocks are those that benefit from, and outperform during, a bull market. Here are three I like in what looks like the first leg of a bigger move.
April 12, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
April 11, 2024
April 11, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
Cabot Top Ten Trader Issue: April 8, 2024
When it comes to the market and especially leading, Top Ten-type stocks, we’re increasingly seeing a game of ping pong occur—one day, the market and most stocks are up, but a day or two later will see selling, with many names that were perking up smacked right back down. We learned long ago not to anticipate things, so we continue to lean bullish but are also being selective. We’ll move our Market Monitor back to a level 7, but the real key is to remain flexible and take things on a stock-by-stock basis.

Meanwhile, our screens continue to find strong situations, including some decent setups should the market get moving. Our Top Pick this week is a name from the chip sector that erupted after earnings in February, but has spent two months calming down and is now standing just above support. A resumption of the rally from here would be tempting.
April 8, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Stock Market
How to Use Moving Averages When Buying or Selling Stocks
Moving averages can provide excellent buy and sell signals when used properly, here are a few guidelines to help you improve your trading.
April 5, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Free Videos
Plenty of Stocks Still in Uptrends | Cabot Weekly Review
In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s under-the-surface improvement that he’s seeing; no indicators have changed, which will need to happen for him to extend his line in a big way, but there’s no question most stuff has seen improvement and more stocks are beginning to act properly. Mike did a little buying this week and is hoping to add more should the market be able to build on the recent action.
April 5, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
April 5, 2024
It’s been a poor week for the market, with the big-cap indexes down in the 2% range coming into today, and broader indexes like small and mid-caps are off more, with growth stocks also lagging.
April 5, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
Cabot Growth Investor Issue: April 4, 2024
Most of the evidence remains bullish, so we continue to hold our winners and selectively put money to work — but the fact is that most growth stocks have been chopping sideways overall for a month or two, so we’re OK holding some cash and waiting patiently for the market and leaders to show their near-term hand. Tonight, we’re booking a little more partial profits in one of our winners, but are standing pat otherwise and will follow the lead of the market—and of leaders—going ahead.
April 4, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
Cabot Top Ten Trader Issue: April 1, 2024
It seemed like the post-Fed action from two weeks ago may have paved the way for another leg up in the leadership, but while that’s not off the table, we’re continuing to see a lot of crosscurrents out there as money sloshes around. What does it mean? Not much yet, as the major evidence remains positive, but it’s best to continue to raise and honor your stops, while for new buying, make sure you’re focusing on names that are generally earlier in their moves. We’ll leave our Market Monitor at a level 8, but more than ever, it really depends where you look.

This week’s list has many names that are either just coming into favor or have tightened up nicely after prior runs. For our Top Pick, we’ll go back to the commodity theme, with a stock that’s toying with new highs despite the fact that natural gas is still at very low levels. We’re OK starting small here and adding if the buying continues.
April 1, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Growth Stocks
10 Rules for Growth Investing
These growth investing rules have been carefully selected as the most important guidelines a growth investor can use.
April 1, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
March 28, 2024
It’s been a relatively quiet holiday-shortened week from the big-cap indexes, with all of them about unchanged on the week. That said, there have been two main themes in recent days.


The first is rotation—small-cap, mid-cap and equal-weight indexes are up in the 1% to 2.5% range on the week, and not only that, we’ve seen more and more old world/value-type names perk up, with more than a few bounding to new highs. (The Russell 2000 and S&P 600 SmallCap are both testing recent highs as well.)
March 28, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
March 27, 2024
WHAT TO DO NOW: Remain bullish, but continue taking things on a stock-by-stock basis. We’re seeing another round of sharp selling in many leading growth stocks today, though few (if any) have cracked meaningful support. To us, it’s another shot across the bow, not prompting any major moves but putting us on alert with certain names. In the Model Portfolio, we’re making one small move—selling 20% of our stake in CrowdStrike (CRWD)— while doing a quick flip on Celsius (CELH), placing it on Hold after last week’s half-position buy after today’s drop on news. Our cash position will now be 25%, and we’re keeping our eyes on a few names should the selling continue.
March 27, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
Cabot Top Ten Trader Issue: March 25, 2024
There was definitely some churning in the leading areas of the market from early February into last week’s Fed meeting, but there wasn’t much abnormal action, and the past few days have seen the buyers back at it, helping many leading stocks of all stripes pop. Now, we don’t consider the action as a brand-new buy signal, but the major evidence of the market (trends are up for most indexes and sectors) never wavered, so we’re holding most of our winners and looking to increase exposure in names that are enjoying big-volume accumulation. We’ll nudge our Market Monitor up at level 8.

This week’s list is a bit of a hodgepodge, with different types of names from varying sectors. For our Top Pick, we’ll go with a name from a strong sector that has seen its business turn up in a major way while the stock’s recent action looks like a major change in investor perception.
March 25, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Stock Market
Our Best Stock Market Timing Indicators
We’ve been using the following market timing indicators for decades, and they’ve served us quite well. Here’s how they work.
March 25, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Free Videos
The Market’s Push Higher | Cabot Weekly Review
In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s under-the-surface improvement that he’s seeing; no indicators have changed, which will need to happen for him to extend his line in a big way, but there’s no question most stuff has seen improvement and more stocks are beginning to act properly. Mike did a little buying this week and is hoping to add more should the market be able to build on the recent action.
March 22, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Top Ten Trader
March 22, 2024
It’s been an encouraging week in the market—both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up in the 2% range, while broader indexes and growth-heavy measures are up more.


For much of 2022 and 2023, buying pressures weren’t able to persist—yes, there were rallies, but they usually went just three to five weeks before the bulls pulled in their horns, leading to renewed downside.
March 22, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
Cabot Growth Investor Issue: March 21, 2024
Most growth leaders and even the Nasdaq itself has been churning since early February, with a lot of ups and downs but not much price progress—but this week has been more encouraging, as the selling pressures have been unable to persist and the major uptrend may be reasserting itself (basically the opposite situation that was seen repeatedly in 2022-2023). That doesn’t mean it’ll be smooth sailing from here, so we’re still being discerning on the buy side, but we’re holding our winners and remaining in an overall optimistic stance.

In the Model Portfolio, we cut bait on one half position earlier this week that was heading in the wrong direction, but we’re holding our strong performers and tonight are putting a chunk of money to work.
March 21, 2024
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Mike Cintolo
Cabot Growth Investor
March 19, 2024
WHAT TO DO NOW: The market and especially leading stocks are still very choppy, with news-driven moves becoming the norm of late, and today we’re seeing another wave of selling in the names. Big picture, we’re still optimistic, but we’re taking things on a stock-by-stock basis at this point. Today we’re going to sell Shift4 (FOUR), which was hit hard yesterday after saying it received no worthwhile buyout bids and, without any bounce, we’re going to cut bait here, leaving us with 32% in cash. Details below.
March 19, 2024
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Mike Cintolo