Using Options to Increase Your Portfolio Yield
There are two options strategies any investor can use to create yield that far exceeds traditional avenues: Covered Calls and Writing Puts.
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Cabot Explorer 738
The S&P 500 has now gained 90% since its closing low last March. Quite amazing. We now need to look forward and remain optimistic while a bit cautious.
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4 Dollar Store Stocks Beating the Competition
Dollar stores are outpacing their larger retail brethren, and dollar store stocks are flourishing. Here are four that stand out.
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3 Reasons the Most Popular Stocks Don’t Belong in Your Portfolio
Is your investment portfolio made up of all the most popular stocks? You may not get the investing returns you're hoping for.
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3 Top Dividend Growth Stocks To Buy Now
Growth stocks have been stuck in neutral the past few months. But these 3 dividend growth stocks are a nice alternative, says Sure Dividend.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is hovering at a high level within bad breath distance of the all-time high. But that factoid is deceiving. The market really has not gone anywhere but sideways for about two months.
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Cabot Early Opportunities Special Bulletin
We’re going to step aside from e.l.f Beauty (ELF) today for a very slight loss (roughly 4%). We’ve held the stock for just over a month and it has posted uninspiring performance, especially since reporting on May 26. My original intent was to try to a..
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Cabot Marijuana Investor Update
As I write this, every stock in our portfolio is up today, in what may be the beginning of a new advance for the sector. It’s been more than four months since marijuana stocks’ February peak, so they’ve definitely cooled off, but only will...
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Why Stocks Under $5 Aren’t Good Values
There are plenty of stocks under $5, but few of them offer much value. And the distinction between cheap and low-priced is an important one.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week, we started our multi-part discussion on position sizes, and looked at the benefits and weaknesses of an equal-weighted approach. Let’s look at perhaps the most common weighting used by fund managers: relative weighting.
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Cabot Micro-Cap Insider Update
Do you consider yourself a growth stock investor or a value stock investor? I think growth or value framework is a false dichotomy. Warren Buffett summed it up well when he said: “Most analysts feel they must choose between two approaches customarily thought be...
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Cabot Income Advisor 621
The sideways market finally got some action. It went the wrong way. But it showed signs of life nonetheless.
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4 Steps to Picking the Best Marijuana Stocks
Marijuana stocks are coming out of the woodwork these days. Here are four keys to finding the best marijuana stocks in an increasingly crowded field.
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The Best Time to Buy Recent IPOs? After this Volume Clue
You can't get in too early on recent IPOs; they often stumble out of the gates. But the buying volume can announce big changes in character.
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Cabot Profit Booster Update 6/22/2021
Shortly after I sent this week’s Profit Booster idea to execute a covered call on Scientific Games (SGMS), the stock rallied $1, and I missed my buy price. I am going to raise my net price to 72, so that we can get the...
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Cabot Profit Booster 180
Monday, shortly after the market open, we exited the stock components of three of our June covered call positions (FNKO, IGT, RRC). With these sales, here are our profits for all four June positions:
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Why MercadoLibre Stock Has More Upside than AMZN or BABA
MercadoLibre stock is both the Amazon and eBay of Latin America - only with more upside. And it's already crushing most U.S. stocks.
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Cabot Stock of the Week 353
These days, when you think of “growth stocks,” it’s hard for your mind not to go to cloud software, cybersecurity, e-commerce and online help for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Buying Call Options in Amazon (AMZN)
Buying call options is a good way to gain upside exposure to a hot growth stock. When the market is at a high, it's a particularly good time.
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Buying Bonds in Your Value Investing Portfolio
A little known Benjamin Graham strategy for investing that will lead to success is to always buying bonds -- and holding them -- in your investment portfolio.
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