With the market having come back strong since its swift retreat in early June the immediate threat of a larger correction has diminished. The S&P 500 index is back above its 50-day line and within a couple percentage points of its all-time high.
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Our Cabot Tides are yet to flash a green light, and thus we’re content to hold our strong, profitable stocks, but also to keep a chunk of cash on the sideline.
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Our Emerging Markets Timer is still solidly in the bull camp, with the recent pullback being modest compared to the year-to-date upmove.
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The market remains strong and I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in a well-diversified portfolio that meets your investment needs.
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THE BIG IDEA
On a whim, I recently reviewed our car insurance.
Something didn’t feel right, so I went online and got a quote from another provider. It turns out they could cover our two cars with essentially the same coverage – for half the was...
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Pieces are in Place
We’re about five weeks into this market correction, and it’s been a pretty nasty one when looking at the major indexes—from high to low, the S&P 500 has fallen as much as 7.6% and the Nasdaq by 10.8%, with small- mid-cap...
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Emerging markets (EEM) and Chinese stocks in particular continue to struggle a bit this week. The EEM is trading right at its 200-day moving average and below its 50-day moving average so the portfolio remains in a defensive stance.
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The market remains strong and I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in a well-diversified portfolio that meets your investment needs.
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Altogether it felt like a calm week. Considering the worsening performance of the S&P 600 Small Cap Index, which broke below its comfort zone, and the S&P 500, now 6% off its high, our portfolio’s resiliency continues to stand out.
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Our Cabot Tides are still clearly negative, and in recent days the selling pressure has broadened out, causing more stocks and sectors to take on water.
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Our Emerging Markets Timer is still solidly in the bull camp, with the recent pullback being modest compared to the year-to-date upmove.
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Cannabis News
Fundamentally, the fastest-growing industry in America continues its rapid evolution. Some analysts now estimate that marijuana will be an $80 billion business in few years, while CBD sales will hit $16 billion by 2025.
It’s hard to know. But one big step comes tomorrow the...
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The Incredible Opportunity of 5G
Technology seems to provide us with new English words all the time. Nobody ever heard the terms “tweet” or “selfie” or “photobomb” just a few years ago. So many new terms are thrown around that it’s tempting to ignore of...
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The market remains strong and I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in a well-diversified portfolio that meets your investment needs.
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Looking at the broad market we see that the S&P 500 is just 4% off its recent high, has thus far held above support around 2,800 and remains above its long-term (200-day) moving average line. The Nasdaq dipped to its May 13 low 7,627,...
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Time Likely Needed
In The Perfect Speculator (written by Brad Koteshwar), fictional trader Boyd Hunt said, “Everything in the market takes time. Learning takes time. Making gains takes time. Even losing big takes time because the market will occasionally offer small crumbs to remove (We...
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Emerging and global markets struggled this week as our Emerging Market Timer remained negative, with the EEM clearly trading below its 20-day and 50-day moving averages.
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The market remains strong and I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in a well-diversified portfolio that meets your investment needs.
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This is a great time to be invested in these stocks, clearly. And I hope the trend continues. But I do think we have a missing ingredient before we can feel super confident that these gains will stick. And that ingredient is more from...
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The market’s three-day rally has been solid, but even better than that has been the action of growth stocks, many of which have zoomed to new highs.
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