Protective Puts in Twilio (TWLO) and Canopy Growth (CGC)
Want to protect gains in one of your better stocks? Use protective puts! Here's how it works, using Twilio (TWLO) and Canopy Growth (CGC) as examples.
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5 Low-Beta Stocks for a High-Risk Market
In an increasingly volatile stock market, it makes sense to take on less risk in your investing. These five low-beta stocks are a good place to start.
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Is It Time to Hedge Your Portfolio with Options?
With the VIX just coming off a three-year low, it may be time to hedge your portfolio with options. Here are a few ways you can do it.
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4 Ways to Protect Your Portfolio
With things still volatile in the stock market, it's important to know how to protect your portfolio from big drops. Here are four ways to do it.
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How to Insure Your Investment Portfolio with Put Options
Much like home and auto insurance, buying put options is a way to protect your portfolio from sudden disaster. Here's how it works.
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Cabot Prime Pro Week Ending May 19, 2017
Cabot Wealth Summit
Have you registered yet for the Cabot Wealth Summit in September? It’s included in your Prime Pro membership, but you need to register to reserve your seat. Registrations for your guests are just $400 per person. Click here to register now.
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Cabot Prime Week Ending May 19, 2017
Cabot Wealth Summit
Have you registered yet for the Cabot Wealth Summit in September? It’s included in your Prime membership, but you need to register to reserve your seat. Registrations for your guests are just $400 per person. Click here to register now.
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The Trouble with Investing in AAPL Suppliers
Due to the popularity of Apple (AAPL), it can pay to invest in some of the company's top suppliers. But that strategy carries quite a bit of risk.
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Cabot Prime Week Ending March 17, 2017
Cabot Growth Investor
Other Stocks of Interest March 17: Follow ups to stocks featured October 12, 2016 (issue 1353) to March 15, 2017 (issue 1363). Since they're not in the Model Portfolio, you don't see them followed on a regular basis. However, we are these...
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Cabot Prime Pro Week Ending March 17, 2017
Cabot Growth Investor
Other Stocks of Interest March 17: Follow ups to stocks featured October 12, 2016 (issue 1353) to March 15, 2017 (issue 1363). Since they're not in the Model Portfolio, you don't see them followed on a regular basis. However, we are these...
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Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Investor Weekly Update
I include summaries of 10 Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Investor companies that have reported quarterly financial results or other noteworthy news during the past week. I also report on the sectors of the economy that are likely to benefit from economic and political in...
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Why Market Volatility Is Historically Low
Market volatility is at a 60-year low, as the Dow has spent the last six weeks in its tightest trading range since 1957. But a major breakout is coming.
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Expect a Volatile Market after Today’s Rate Hike
A volatile market may ensue if the Fed raises short-term interest rates today as expected. If it does, chances are it will be temporary. Here's what to do.
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How Options Trading Can Protect Your Stocks from Trump Tweets
Options trading is the only way to protect yourself in case Donald Trump comes after one of your stocks on Twitter - like he did with these three stocks.
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Dividend Aristocrats
Dividend Aristocrats: Steady Growth, Solid Financials and Happy Shareholders
I recently read a special report from Patrick McKeough, editor of The Successful Investor, Stock Pickers Digest and Wall Street Stock Forecaster, celebrating 3M Company’s (MMM) landmark achievement of 100 years of dividend payments.
That’s a remarkable...
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The World Share Market Changes Direction
The long-feared and yet still wholly unexpected “Brexit” is happening, and panic has fully engulfed the world share market. Here’s how to navigate the choppy waters.
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How to Fed-Proof Your Portfolio
Friday’s strong jobs report—which raised the probability of a December rate hike to around 70% according to futures markets—initially caused a sharp dip in the major indexes, followed by an end-of-day rally. However, that was followed by more dramatic corrections of about 1% each...
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Apple Bites
Apple’s new product announcement this week was a big deal. When a company’s market cap is hovering around $640 billion, its gross profit was $70.5 billion in the past year and its stock is held by 2,157 institutional investors, it can’t be anything a..
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Three Simple Options Strategies to Hedge Your Portfolio
On Monday, Paul Goodwin discussed the panic that sparked a greater than 2% decline in the markets on Monday. So how do you protect your portfolio from a pit bull and a swarm of bees?
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The Most Common Portfolio Management Mistake
Diversification is one of the first portfolio management principles equity investors learn. It’s simple enough to understand; it’s simply an extrapolation of the old advice not to put all your eggs in one basket. And it’s good advice. But most investors have narrow...
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