What to Do When Your Stock is a Takeover Target
It’s every investor’s dream to own a stock that rises rapidly, and there’s no more rapid source of gains than when a company becomes a takeover target.
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How to Protect Your Stock Gains in Square and Micron
If you made money in Square and Micron recently, it's important to know how to protect your stock gains now that those two high fliers have hit the skids.
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Time-Meredith Deal Shows Perks of Owning Takeover Targets
Time stock's rare bounce in response to the Time-Meredith deal is an example of why it pays to own takeover targets - at least until they're taken over.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Special Bulletin
The recently-rumored merger between semiconductor companies Marvell Technology Group (MRVL – yield 1.2%) and Cavium (CAVM) was announced this morning.
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Cabot Options Trading Pro Strategies
Options trading can be tricky, so it helps to learn some important options trading strategies that can help maximize return and limit risk. Here are some of the flexible and powerful options strategies I use in my options trading advisories, Cabot Options Trader Cabot...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Special Bulletin
One of our stocks beat earnings estimates, another's rating changes to Buy, plus updates on eight other stocks.
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Don’t Fall for These Five Stock Market Myths
There are a lot of stock market myths swirling around these days. You shouldn't listen to most of them, especially these five.
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Apple (AAPL) – Buy, Hold or Sell?
Apple (AAPL)—Buy, Hold or Sell?
What’s the Next Apple?
It Might be Facebook
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Last week, Apple presented the bad news that iPhone sales growth has been slowing, and the stock gapped down in response. AAPL is now 29% off last year’s high (hit in April), and and...
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Apple (AAPL) – Buy, Hold or Sell?
Last week, Apple presented the bad news that iPhone sales growth has been slowing, and the stock gapped down in response. AAPL is now 29% off last year’s high (hit in April), and more and more investors are wondering what they should do Apple—buy,...
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Eight Stock Selling Tools and Rules
No matter what the market environment, the most common questions we field at Cabot concern selling. Here are some of our most fundamental tools and rules.
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Undervalued and Relatively Undervalued Stocks
Any stock can be undervalued. It can be a company that’s underperforming and has been given a low valuation.
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How to Use Options to Hedge Your Portfolio
Here are a couple of different options strategies you can use to “hedge” your portfolio.
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Stop-Losses—Don’t Leave Home Without Them!
Portfolio Protection Step #2: By Nancy Zambell Editor, Investment Digest and Dividend Digest In “5 Steps to Protect your Portfolio” the second step I talked about was the importance of setting stop-loss orders. A stop-loss is simply an order—either formally placed with your a..
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Time to Book Some Gains?
For the first time in seemingly months, the market has a bit more negative tone. So should you book some gains on some of your winners?
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Use Covered Calls to Boost Your Income
“Double Your Dividends!” That’s the pitch I’ve been seeing in my inbox lately from a fellow investing advisor trying to sell a webinar on covered calls. But what are covered calls, and how can they increase your income from stocks you already own? the...
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Nuveen Equity Premium Advantage Fund (JLA)
Options sound risky -- and incompatible with income investing. But writing covered calls (selling call options on stocks you own) is actually an options strategy that can generate extra income stocks you already own. The one downside is that you may be forced to sell stock...
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3 Ways to Become a Better Investor
Today's discussion stems from three points that have coalesced in my mind during the past few weeks, mainly in response to subscriber questions
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October: Myths and Legends
One thing that's always attracted me to the stock market is that it has a long and storied history. One of the most discussed themes in market history has to do with October--specifically, that October is a month that the market crashes.
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Being Right or Making Money
If you're being battered by all the negative headlines, don't despair. Remember that your goal is to make money, not to always be correct, and so you should be focusing on future opportunities.
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