Should I Sell My Stocks? When to Sell Stocks and When to Hold
During any market drop, you might ask, "Should I sell my stocks?" Here are a few guidelines on when to sell stocks and when to hold them.
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Cabot Marijuana Investor 919
Lots of Crosscurrents!
The good news is that yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the SAFE Banking Act (the acronym stands for "Secure and Fair Enforcement"), which would shield banks and other financial institutions from being held liable for serving businesses...
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Buying Opportunity
It’s been rather frustrating to see cannabis stocks falling day after day, week after week, while the companies’ quarterly reports (with the exception of Canopy Growth) continue to reveal that business is booming. But that’s how the market works.
First, cannabis stocks attracted slew...
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How to Use an Ex-Dividend Date Calendar
If you want to spread out your dividend payments, an ex-dividend date calendar is a handy way to keep track of all your payments. Here's how it works.
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Cabot Marijuana Investor 719
Bad News Bears
The stock market in general is quite healthy, with the major indexes at or near their highs, and all Cabot’s market timing indicators positive.
But the cannabis sector is still weak.
Part of this weakness stems from the fact that cannabis was the sector...
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Cabot Marijuana Investor 619
Cooling Off
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This picture of the Marijuana Index tells a story that be summed up in fourteen.
From January through March, marijuana stocks were hot.
Since then, they’ve been cooling off.
The reasons for the strength were From...
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Cannabis News
Fundamentally, the fastest-growing industry in America continues its rapid evolution. Some analysts now estimate that marijuana will be an $80 billion business in few years, while CBD sales will hit $16 billion by 2025.
It’s hard to know. But one big step comes tomorrow the...
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Invest with Conviction – Or Don’t Invest
When you invest with conviction, you can rest easy knowing that your investment portfolio is comprised solely of companies you truly believe in.
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Analyzing Stocks
I didn’t go to business school; I was an English major. But the values learned in our household were firmly grounded in free market capitalism and investing. Sunday mornings, after going to church, we would stop at the local newsstand to buy and...
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CBD Stocks Soar
I take a dose of CBD twice a day. I think it works. I sleep better and have less discomfort in my finger joints—early signs of arthritis. But I’m not sure that it’s working, because there have been no major medical on...
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks Daily Alert
The top three sectors for this fund are: Consumer Cyclical, 15.49% of assets; Energy, 11.76%; and Financial Services, 10.67%
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The Best Dividend Stocks Today
The best dividend stocks this year should come from three sectors in particular. Here are three stocks that stand out to me.
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks Daily Alert
The top three sectors for this dividend fund are Utilities (29% of assets); Consumer Cyclicals (18%) and Financial Services (14%). The ETF has a current dividend yield of 3.02%, paid quarterly.
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks Daily Alert: Buy (PNR)
This diversified company beat earnings estimates by $0.06 last quarter, and three analysts have raised their forecasts in the past thirty days. The shares have a current dividend yield of 2.33%, paid quarterly.
Pentair (PNR 58)
From Sure Dividend
Pentair (PNR) is based in the U.K., has...
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What Fed Speeches Mean for the Stock Market Today
The stock market today may respond differently to Fed rate hikes—and the accompanying Fed president speeches—than it did last December.
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Why Gold Stocks are Like Homesick Angels
After a four-and-a-half-year bear market, gold stocks are back with a vengeance. If you own gold stocks, here’s what I would advise doing with them.
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How Consistency Delivered 10 Doubles in Four Years
Consistency Matters
10 Doubles in Four Years
How to Get a Stock Market Bargain
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I took some time over the weekend to reread some of the small-cap investing advice that I’ve published during past periods of market volatility. One of the things that struck me was I..
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How Consistency Delivered 10 Doubles in Four Years
I have a lot of stock market advice written down. And it turns out that over the years I’ve been fairly consistent in the small cap advice that I’ve given during challenging markets. Most of the advice is the same each time the hits...
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Is There Such a Thing as “Too Late to Sell?”
Markets are all about buying and selling, and the market itself will happily let you know if your strategy, your tactics, your rules and your intuitions are up to the task. But year in and year out, the lesson the market is fondest teaching...
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The Ten Commandments of Dividend Investing
Investors love dividend stocks—they pay you regularly just for holding them, they’re less volatile than other stocks, and over time, they actually deliver higher returns too. Investing in dividend stocks isn’t hard, but it is a little different from growth or value or...
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