Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The Japanese phrase, hara hachi bu, translates into something like “belly 80 percent full,” or “eat until you are eight parts full.”
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Cabot Growth Investor 1408
Sellers Still Lurking
The first three and a half weeks of October were brutal, with the S&P 500 (down 11%) and Nasdaq (down 14%) cascading significantly, turning both our Cabot Tides and Cabot Trend Lines bearish as we raised a boatload of cash. But those...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
We have three changes in the portfolio this week.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
I think we can all use a break from this market, and there’s no new fundamental news related to any of our positions. So today I’m just going speak for a few minutes on the state of the market and small caps.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1407
Over the Falls
During the past few weeks, we’ve seen huge up days, crushing down days, dramatic reversals (like today’s), big earnings gaps (up and down) and a slew of big-font headlines ranging from U.S.-China trade rumors, views from Fed members concerning rate hikes, resignations...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The major market indexes have been retracing their steps back to their late-October lows. With the trend down, it should come as no surprise that most of our stocks lost ground over the last five trading days, too.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market’s volatility is a relatively normal correction. But for now, my plan is to keep making incremental moves to try to limit risk and pursue opportunities. Hopefully that will mean a number of positions move back to buy in November but there one...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1406
Positive Action, but Need to See More
After a hellacious October that saw many indexes, sectors and stocks crash over a three-week period, the past week and half has been a welcome relief. With today’s solid post-election rally, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have about...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market hates uncertainty and it is getting it by the bucket-full right now. If you need a simple explanation for this volatility, that’s it.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1405
Trends are Down Until Proven Otherwise
When volatility picks up in the market, often after a sharp decline, investors are bombarded with predictions, many of them dramatically bullish (this is the buying opportunity of the century!) or bearish (another global financial crisis has begun!), in...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big news this week is that we: (1) recovered some of last week’s losses and (2) have a notable acquisition in the small cap cloud software space.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
I want to cover three things today: (1) possible reasons behind the stock market swoon, (2) what to expect over the next couple of months, and (3) what opportunities to look for both within and beyond our current portfolio.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1404
Downpours
September was definitely a month of yellow flags—we saw lots of rotation out of growth stocks, two severe bouts of selling in leaders, and lots of sloppy, volatile action, which often signifies distribution after a long run. As we wrote in our last there...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Big picture, things still look reasonably good out there. That said, we’ve seen persistent, but not severe, weakness in small-cap stocks since the beginning of September.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1403
Gusts of Wind, but No Rain Yet
At the end of August, there were a lot of growth stocks (and growth-oriented indexes) extended to the upside, some near-term sentiment measures were a bit giddy and we were heading into September, a month that frequently its...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The undercurrents we felt in the market last week bubbled to the surface this week as value-oriented sectors opened a modest performance gap as compared to growth-oriented sectors.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small caps made no net new progress over the past week but we definitely saw some movement under the surface. This week we’re pulling back just a little given some softening in momentum stocks. A few positions were moved to hold, but for we’re...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1402
Many Potholes, but Growth Stocks Holding
Every morning (after the kids’ lunches are done of course), I like to open up my laptop and take an unbiased look at the whole market—not just the growth stocks I recommend and follow, but various sector ETFs, measures...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Despite a modest dip yesterday the market generally looks healthy, with the S&P 500 finally breaking out to a new high this week, the NASDAQ trading above 8,000, and the S&P 600 Small Cap Index continuing to trade right up at all-time highs. index...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
There continues to be a lot of noise out there regarding Donald Trump, his legal team, trade, tariffs and security threats/manipulation on social media platforms in advance of the upcoming mid-term elections
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