Today, for a change, I’ll cover the news first, and the investing advice second. In Illinois, marijuana taxes exceeded alcohol taxes in the first three months of 2021. Marijuana tax revenue amounted to $86,537,000 while alcohol taxes brought in $72,281,000. I expect the to...
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Nine weeks ago, as the marijuana sector was completing what looked like a climax top, I took the risky step of taking partial profits in ten of our stocks, moving to a 45% cash position.
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A quick look through the major marijuana stocks leads to an unsurprising conclusion: the sector remains in a correction.
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The marijuana sector, in general, remains in a correction. The high for the sector was six weeks ago, while the most recent bottom was two and a half weeks ago.
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The good news is that one of our stocks, Trulieve (TCNNF), closed at a record high yesterday. The bad news is that none of our other stocks did. The sector as a whole remains in the moderate correction that began five weeks ago, and continue...
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The Dow hit a new high today, but marijuana stocks didn’t; their correction, which was richly deserved, is now one month old. And the fact is this correction is likely to run further, mainly because the broad market still needs a correction.
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I’m tempted—I really am—to take some of our 46% cash position and move it back into marijuana stocks. Since the sector peaked three weeks ago, most of the stocks have had a decent pullback and now the best are moving up again, heading those...
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As I’ve explained previously, I’ve become increasingly concerned that the blistering advance of the marijuana sector had progressed so far so fast that it was getting increasingly ripe for a correction. But as long as the stocks were advancing, I was happy to fully...
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The GameStop Affair last week offered great entertainment for those of us neither long nor short the stock, but in the end what does it mean? In my opinion, the market worked; I don’t see any real problems revealed (aside from naivety of of...
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Over the long run, the S&P 500 has produced an average annual return of about 10% per year. Our aim at Cabot, through our various services, is to do better, and in the long run we do.
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Part of the marijuana sector’s strength, of course, is because the broad market is also trending higher. But a substantial part comes from the growing realization, especially in wake of last week’s election that promised us a uniformly Democratic federal government, that this will...
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Marijuana stocks exploded higher this morning as investors speculated that the solid Democratic federal government resulting from yesterday’s Georgia election would be favorable to this fast-growing industry.
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Marijuana stocks as a whole remain very strong as we head into the holiday season, where trading is expected to be lighter and news announcements few. Today I have no recommended changes in our portfolio, though I do have a few updates, as as...
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Marijuana stocks as a whole pulled back normally over the past week, but the correction may have ended yesterday, with most of the leaders still well above their 50-day moving averages—and the best have continued to hit new highs. Bottom line, the trend up...
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The bull market is alive and well, and marijuana stocks remain among the leaders, as buyers continue to flood into this hot sector in the midst of a growing trend toward legalization.
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Sometime between today and Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement Act, otherwise known as the MORE Act.
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A wave of quarterly reports in recent days means most of our companies have reported.
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With all five states that voted on marijuana proposals last week saying “Yes,” the trend toward nationwide legalization is now clearer than ever—and marijuana investors have been acting accordingly.
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Yesterday, voters in all five states where it was on the ballot—Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota—said they were in favor of legalization, and in every case, the majority vote was clearly positive, not even close.
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Just a brief update today, mainly to discuss this morning’s sharp drop in the stock that we added to the portfolio last week.
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