There hasn’t been any real news about our stocks in the past week, but I’ve been watching the charts carefully, trying to decide whether it’s time to put some of our 35% cash back into the market, or to take more out, or simply...
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Fundamentally, the only recent news regarding the marijuana industry is that the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the MORE Act, which would deschedule marijuana and thereby legalize it federally, the week of September 21. Passage is likely. Getting through the Senate not.
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A High Growth/Low Volatility Stock for an Uncertain Market
Here we are. The cold Labor Day slap in the face has arrived.
For several weeks I have warned that investors could change their attitudes when the rubber hit the road after Labor Day. As people off...
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Three weeks ago, when the marijuana sector seemed extremely extended to the upside, we sold 25% of each of the positions in our four U.S. multi-state operators
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A Little Cautious
The good news is that our portfolio is well in the black for the year, thanks to strong performances by all four of our U.S. multi-state operators, our REIT (IIPR) and our hydroponics retailer (GRWG). (Readers who held GRWG before second-quarter were...
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One of the market truisms that I learned long ago concerns selling stocks near the end of a strong run-up—and because the odds are growing stronger that we’re nearing such a situation now, I bring it up today.
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You Can Bank on an Aging Population
What a spectacular market. The pandemic and economic crash was apparently just a temporary diversion for the stock market. The indexes are right back to nosebleed territory.
The S&P 500 is now within bad breath distance of the record...
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Over the past week, marijuana stocks have been particularly strong, with the strongest being the four leading U.S. multi-state operators that we own—and that means it’s time for another brief update on strategy.
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Back in the Black
The broad market is strong, but the marijuana sector is even stronger, with six of our stocks hitting new recovery highs this week, and another hitting an all-time high last week!
The reasons for this strength are numerous.
First, after a two-year market...
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The strength in marijuana stocks that began two weeks ago with breakouts by the stocks of the four leading U.S. providers has continued this week, so now I’m going to take the portfolio to a fully invested position.
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The good news is that leading marijuana stocks have seen some heavy buying in recent days—so much, in fact, that the four leading U.S. marijuana stocks have all broken out above their May or June highs.
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The Pandemic Creates a High-Yielding Superstar
It’s time to look beyond the market disruptions and personal nuisances caused by this pandemic. It will go away sooner or later, and headlines will obsess with something else. But the ordeal of the lockdown and virus may to...
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The stocks in the marijuana sector have pretty much traded in sync with the broad market since the March bottom, climbing strongly to late-May or early-June peaks and consolidating those gains since, with many stocks pulling back to sensible support levels.
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Buying Opportunities
The last few weeks have brought a much-needed market correction—much-needed because after advancing for eleven weeks from the COVID-19 bottom, the market was extended, and some segments of the investing world were positively giddy. But now that the correction has done its capped...
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The marijuana sector looks increasingly healthy, as the leading companies continue to post triple-digit growth rates and the leading stocks continue to climb higher.
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A Cheap Price and a Safe, High-Yield
These are humbling times for market prognosticators. Who saw the coronavirus coming? Who saw the market surging 47% from the lows in late March?
The last several months have beautifully exemplified why no one can predict the market the...
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The Trend Strengthens!
Canada was first, but the U.S. will dominate. That’s not exactly a surprise, but the evidence is now piling up, most recently in the form of some terrific first quarter reports by U.S. marijuana companies while the Canadians continue to cut and...
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While the broad market enjoyed a powerful upmove yesterday, the marijuana sector was even stronger, with the Marijuana Index surging 15%.
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As coronavirus matters continue to dominate the headlines and the world works toward slowly reopening, the action of marijuana stocks continues to impress—and with good reason.
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Maybe Too Far Too Fast
Don’t look now but we are in the midst of a huge rally, and technically a bull market. The S&P 500 has soared more than 30% from the lows of March 23rd in just 50 days. The index is down...
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