The 3 Most Volatile Stocks Today
Volatile stocks can be exhausting to have in your portfolio. And that's why you should avoid these three volatile stocks.
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How To Play Earnings Gaps
My answer to every investor’s question about whether they should buy XYZ stock right ahead of earnings is...
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Can LEAPS Investing Be a Substitute for Buying Stock?
LEAPS can be a useful investing strategy for longer-term speculative investments but the question today is: Can leaps investing be used as a substitute for buying the underlying stock?
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The 5 Worst Ways to Invest Money in the Stock Market
There are a lot of ways to invest money. Some of them are pretty good. And some of them are probably not what we would advise.
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5 Characteristics of Safe Stocks to Invest In
Looking for some safe stocks to invest in? Here's what the best of them have in common (+ some tips to lower your overall portfolio risk).
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How Call Options Work
When Learning How Call Options Work, Investors Should Know They Have the Right, But Not the Obligation, to Buy a Stock at a Predetermined Price and Time.
What is a call option? How call options work is by giving the buyer the right to buy shares...
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What are High Volatility Stocks?
All About High Volatility Stocks and How This Volatility Impacts Traders
Volatile stocks are characterized by the change in price they experience over a certain period of time. High volatility stocks experience bigger and more rapid gains than stocks with low volatility.
On the hand,...
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Why You Should Loosen Your Stops, Not Tighten Them
Conventional investing wisdom says to keep tight stop losses on volatile stocks. But if you don't loosen your stops, you could miss out on some big profits.
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Aphria (APHA): Who’s Telling the Truth?
Two short-sellers crushed Aphria (APHA) in a recent report, calling the third-largest marijuana producer in Canada a "shell game." Are they right?
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Growth Stocks or Value Stocks: Which Kind of Investor Are You?
Do you prefer growth stocks, value stocks or income stocks? If you don’t know, now is the time to decide, before the market rebounds from the election.
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Warning: Bubble in High Dividend Stocks Forming
High-yielding dividend stocks have been some of the best performing stocks on the market this year, leading to some out-of-whack valuations. Is a bubble forming, or is this the new normal for the top dividend payers?
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Hold: Xilinx (XLNX)
This tech company was just ranked #35 in the CNBC RQ 50 of the most innovative companies in the market. Shares have been discounted following an earnings miss, and now appear to be attractively-valued. The shares have a current dividend yield of 2.4%, quarterly.
Xilinx...
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Sell: United Stationers (USTR)
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United Stationers (USTR)
from 2 for 1 Stock Split Newsletter, recommended at $71 in Investment Digest issue 693, dated April 20, 2011.
When United Stationers was recommended in April, 2011, I wrote “This is not a wildly profitable or fast growing business but...” In the...
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McCormick & Company (MKC)
You will receive your new Dividend Digest, the Top Picks 2012 Mid-Year Update issue, this afternoon. First, here's one last mid-year update, this time from Wyatt Research's High Yield Wealth, edited by Stephen Mauzy.
"I see little to dislike about spice and seasoning maker &...
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Dividend Edition: Dividend-Paying Consumer Staples Stocks
It's been a rough few months for risk-averse investors. Since the first-quarter rally failed in early April, the market has developed no obvious overall trend, instead chopping up and down from month to month like a particularly unpredictable yo-yo. It's the kind of action makes...
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Money Stays Where It’s Well Treated
Capital doesn’t care about the politics of the people who run countries.
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Readers’ Top Investing Rules
After my list of 20 investing rules last week, readers submitted their own top tips.
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Happy Anniversary Cabot Small-Cap Confidential
This month marks the two-year anniversary of Cabot Small-Cap Confidential, so I'm going to be bringing you a series with Editor Thomas Garrity, where he explain how he got interested in small-cap stocks, where he thinks the market is going and some of time-tested...
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