Uncharted Territory—But We Have A Compass
As of Monday, we’d experienced the market’s quickest 30% drop ever. Just 22 days from top to bottom.
Yesterday, the Dow had its best up day in 87 years—up 11%!
And tomorrow?
Well, as the headline says, we’re in uncharted territory. one...
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This list of the best investment sites to research stocks aims to help individual investors navigate the sea of stock-related information on the web.
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Today I’m writing from the core of my investing soul to remind you of some long-term truths that will prevail long after the coronavirus is gone.
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Oil prices are at multi-year lows, and energy stocks are in a death spiral. Eventually they'll rebound, and you'll want to own these oil ETFs when they do.
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Where’s The Bottom?
I’ve been through a lot of nasty markets in the 34 years I’ve spent at Cabot—some of them infamous, like 1987 and 2000 and 2008, and some of them less so, like 1990 and 1997 and 2002—and while I can’t say found...
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These growth investing rules have been carefully selected as the most important guidelines a growth investor can use in a successful investment program.
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If you want to become a rich growth investor, here are over twenty ways to win in the growth stock market.
Growth investors love a good gamble. Growth stocks often outpace the market, and the best ones can earn triple-digit returns in a short amount time...
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Coronavirus Takes Center Stage—and Marijuana Stocks Don’t Care!
I’m in no way a medical professional, so I have nothing useful to say about coronavirus that you haven’t heard elsewhere. But I do have a few thoughts on how the market has reacted to this than...
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Ready For The Big Rebound
The end of the year always brings opportunities for investors who want to speculate on which stocks will rebound best, and this year, there’s no question that cannabis stocks, which are down 46% since the start of the year, near...
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The Smart Money is Moving In
It’s common knowledge among experienced investors that the price of a company’s stock, at any one time, is imperfectly related to the company’s actual value.
Other factors that affect the price include estimates of the company’s future revenues, earnings profit...
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With the U.S. retail sector starting to show signs of life heading into the holiday season, here are three retail stocks to buy before Black Friday.
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Be Not Afraid
One year ago, soon after marijuana sales became legal in Canada, investors were throwing money at the sector, anxious to get a piece of the action. Today, the opposite is true—getting money for a cannabis business takes real work!
That was my takeaway...
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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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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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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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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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Strength and Rotation
Sometimes investing is easy; sometimes it’s difficult. 2019 has been a piece of cake, so far, especially for investors in marijuana stocks.
While the S&P 500 is up 11.1%, year-to-date, the Marijuana Index is up 40.0%, and our own Marijuana Portfolio is 44.4%....
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