2 Put Options Trades to Protect You from a Possible Market Downturn
The market seems destined for another pullback, as several indicators show. Protect your downside with these two put options trades.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, is a straight-forward measure (not a perfect measure, though) of a company’s cash operating profits. But, like seemingly all metrics published by company managements, it is usually adjusted for unusual items that may be non-recurring.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Stop-losses, or more fully, stop-loss orders, are trading orders that are placed to execute a sale automatically if a stock falls below a specified trigger price. The idea is that these orders can prevent a small loss from becoming a large loss. It also...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
There’s no doubting the dominance achieved by mega-tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google and the other members of the “FANGMAN” club (Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia). Over the past decade or two, these have created entirely new industries, grown to unprecedented size and shareholders...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Being a contrarian investor often means buying stocks that are outside of the current zeitgeist. Many investors would look at a list of new buys in a contrarian’s portfolio and wonder just what, exactly, the contrarian was thinking. “Why don’t you just buy stocks...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Each day brings something new. Some days every stock falls, other days they all surge, and some days, like Monday, undervalued stocks in the industrial, consumer and financial sectors jump (the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1%) while the Nasdaq slipped 2.4% - enormous...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The stock market is clearly accelerating the “reopening” trade. Small cap and cyclical stocks as well as commodity prices are surging, interest rates continue to tick up (the 10-year Treasury yield is now 1.38%, up from 0.92% at year-end), and novel financial vehicles SPACs,...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
With the stock market regularly surging to record highs, it may seem like an unusual time to focus on valuation. After all, many stocks are remarkably expensive on traditional measures, and even somewhat lofty on non-traditional measures. But valuation still matters, especially if market...
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4 Ways to Invest During a Stock Market Bubble
It appears a stock market bubble is forming. But that doesn't mean you should start selling your stocks in fear of it bursting.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week, we outlined four ingredients of a market bubble that were usefully outlined in a recently published book1”and briefly described how it clearly appears that our stock market is in a bubble. These ingredients include easy trading of assets, cheap and easy rising...
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2 All-Weather Stocks to Prepare for the Unexpected
Volatility has resurfaced in the market, which means it's time to protect your portfolio. These two all-weather stocks should do the trick.
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4 Defensive ETFs to Protect You from the Next Market Correction
Stocks have been on a nice run, but the next market correction may not be far off. When it happens, you'll want to own these four defensive ETFs.
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Options Education – Long Straddle
I received a great email from a subscriber that I wanted to share with everyone. The question essentially was “with the potential for volatility on the U.S./China Trade talks should we buy a straddle?”
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Options Education – Long Straddle
I received a great email from a subscriber that I wanted to share with everyone. The question essentially was “with the potential for volatility on the U.S./China Trade talks should we buy a straddle?”
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Options Education: How to Hedge Against another Market Correction
Worried about another market correction? This bit of options education should help you learn how to hedge your portfolio using puts.
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Put Options: What They Are and How They Function
Put options help to insure your stocks, providing unlimited potential for profits while the most you would be able to lose is the premium paid.
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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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How to Find Low-Beta Stocks in 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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