Hope for the Bull But Prepare for the Bear
Are you having any fun yet? I’ll say one thing about this market—it’s not boring.
After plunging nearly 34% from the high at all-time-record speed, the market has staged an epic rally. The S&P 500 has more...
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I expect to be adding and removing stocks from these portfolios in 2020, more frequently than usual. That’s because when a stock market recovers from a big drop, stocks tend to get stuck in trading ranges, advancing in fits and starts.
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Let me tell you about the greatest options trade I saw in my 10 years on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) - and what I learned from it.
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Organic food is a nearly $50 billion-per-year industry in the U.S., comprising 6% of total food sales in 2018, and it’s growing at 6% annually. Whole Foods is the obvious, well-known chain that’s capitalizing on this trend, with Trader Joe’s being another that’s in...
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Lululemon (LULU) is perhaps the fastest growing sports apparel company. Is it a better investment than Nike (NKE)? Let's break down NKE vs. LULU stock.
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The 10 highest-paying dividend stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial all yield more than 3%. But which of them would I buy today?
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In times like these, you need low-beta stocks in your portfolio to help you sleep at night. Here are five that look particularly reliable right now.
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The market is strong, our portfolio is full, and the prospects for the months ahead look good. Thus I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in stocks that help you meet your investing goals.
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Stock Recommendation Tracker
The Stock Recommendation Tracker is a table that features all of the current recommendations in all of our portfolios. It’s a quick way for you to see what stocks are currently in our portfolios and will highlight new additions or any to...
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Stock Recommendation Tracker
The Stock Recommendation Tracker is a table that features all of the current recommendations in all of our portfolios. It’s a quick way for you to see what stocks are currently in our portfolios and will highlight new additions or any to...
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From Cabot Top Ten Trader
Right now, the overall evidence remains unchanged: The trend of the major indexes and most stocks is still pointed down, and while many names are doing a good job of hanging in there, few stocks are in true uptrends. ahead,...
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For solid, dependable stocks, these are some of the best industries to invest in - but you still have to make your choices wisely.
There's a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where, in order to cross a bridge, King Arthur has to three...
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You might be a value investor even if you don't realize it. Here's the proof.
In 1997, PBS started airing a television series called "Antiques Roadshow." It's still on, and over 8 million people watch it every week. If you haven't seen it, the premise...
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When Learning How Call Options Work, Investors Should Know They Have the Right, But Not the Obligation, to Buy a Stock at a Predetermined Price and Time.
What is a call option? How call options work is by giving the buyer the right to buy shares...
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s issue, we got some bad news on this portfolio stock before the market opened regarding an internal investigation of fraud by the company’s COO and several other employees who apparently significantly overstated sales in 2019.
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The market quieted down considerably this week—while there were still some sharp daily swings, they were much less than the past four or five weeks. As we write this morning, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are down less than 1% since last Friday, again...
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Our Emerging Markets Timer as found support in recent weeks, but that hasn’t been enough to produce a new buy signal.
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Remain defensive. There are good and bad aspects to the market’s short-term action; overall, we’re optimistic a bottom-building process is underway, but we’ll see how it goes.
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The Big Idea
In the old days, before cloud computing, mobile apps, application programming interfaces (APIs), big data depositories, and all manner of digital transformation initiatives, companies relied on network perimeter security solutions to keep bad actors away.
That’s all changing.
Today, with workers, consumers, business and...
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After falling over 30% in record time, the market has had a nice rebound. In less than a week the market jumped 15% from the lows. It has since stabilized somewhat with less volatility. While the worst may be over, I don’t think out...
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