Since bottoming at the end of March, stocks in the marijuana sector have been building a base, with the best stocks in our portfolio still showing a healthy pattern of higher lows. But we still don’t have a renewed uptrend, and that’s OK. patient...
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The good news this week is that the state of Connecticut appears close to marijuana legalization, as the state Senate passed legislation early Tuesday morning, with an unexpectedly close 19-17 vote. Today—the last day of the 2021 session—the bill heads to the House Representatives,...
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The big news this week is that Amazon will no longer screen most job applicants for marijuana use. Plus, the giant is supporting federal marijuana legalization. That’s one more step in the right direction.
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As I write this morning, the market is selling off broadly, raising the question of whether this downtrend will gain real momentum. The truth is no one knows. What we do know is that the Dow is just seven trading days off its high,...
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Recent days have seen substantial selling pressures in the broad market, with growth stocks being particularly hard hit. But the good news is that stocks in the marijuana sector, which had previously corrected 50% from their February peak to their bottom in late or...
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The big news in the marijuana industry this week is that the Tilray/Aphria merger is complete, turning these two Canadian firms into the biggest marijuana company in the world—for now.
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Today, for a change, I’ll cover the news first, and the investing advice second. In Illinois, marijuana taxes exceeded alcohol taxes in the first three months of 2021. Marijuana tax revenue amounted to $86,537,000 while alcohol taxes brought in $72,281,000. I expect the to...
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Nine weeks ago, as the marijuana sector was completing what looked like a climax top, I took the risky step of taking partial profits in ten of our stocks, moving to a 45% cash position.
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A quick look through the major marijuana stocks leads to an unsurprising conclusion: the sector remains in a correction.
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The marijuana sector, in general, remains in a correction. The high for the sector was six weeks ago, while the most recent bottom was two and a half weeks ago.
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The good news is that one of our stocks, Trulieve (TCNNF), closed at a record high yesterday. The bad news is that none of our other stocks did. The sector as a whole remains in the moderate correction that began five weeks ago, and continue...
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The Dow hit a new high today, but marijuana stocks didn’t; their correction, which was richly deserved, is now one month old. And the fact is this correction is likely to run further, mainly because the broad market still needs a correction.
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I’m tempted—I really am—to take some of our 46% cash position and move it back into marijuana stocks. Since the sector peaked three weeks ago, most of the stocks have had a decent pullback and now the best are moving up again, heading those...
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As I’ve explained previously, I’ve become increasingly concerned that the blistering advance of the marijuana sector had progressed so far so fast that it was getting increasingly ripe for a correction. But as long as the stocks were advancing, I was happy to fully...
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The GameStop Affair last week offered great entertainment for those of us neither long nor short the stock, but in the end what does it mean? In my opinion, the market worked; I don’t see any real problems revealed (aside from naivety of of...
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Over the long run, the S&P 500 has produced an average annual return of about 10% per year. Our aim at Cabot, through our various services, is to do better, and in the long run we do.
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Part of the marijuana sector’s strength, of course, is because the broad market is also trending higher. But a substantial part comes from the growing realization, especially in wake of last week’s election that promised us a uniformly Democratic federal government, that this will...
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Marijuana stocks exploded higher this morning as investors speculated that the solid Democratic federal government resulting from yesterday’s Georgia election would be favorable to this fast-growing industry.
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Marijuana stocks as a whole remain very strong as we head into the holiday season, where trading is expected to be lighter and news announcements few. Today I have no recommended changes in our portfolio, though I do have a few updates, as as...
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Marijuana stocks as a whole pulled back normally over the past week, but the correction may have ended yesterday, with most of the leaders still well above their 50-day moving averages—and the best have continued to hit new highs. Bottom line, the trend up...
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