Daily Posts Archive

While there isn’t any substitute for the diet and exercise you promised yourself you’d do six weeks ago, there’s a stock diet that will allow you to make huge progress in your equity portfolio. It’s called the SNaC Diet, and it’s the best way to get your portfolio in shape, even if you can’t seem to make progress in the campaign against your love handles. SNaC stands for Story, Numbers and Chart, and it’s the method I use to pick growth stocks for the Cabot Emerging Markets Investor.

Apparently, the stock market didn’t agree with Wall Street’s consensus opinion that increasing the Fed Funds rate was already ‘discounted into the market.’ Instead, that quarter percentage rise has had markets seesawing since the announcement.

Yesterday was another extremely volatile day in the stock market for options traders. Being patient is challenging for many traders, and especially options traders. We’re often looking for the next home run. However, in this environment, patience is key.

This stock market collapse has lasted longer than some thought, leading the mainstream media to scramble for an explanation. The real reasons for the extended downturn are simpler than you think.

In my January 28 Cabot Wealth Advisory, I wrote about the five key characteristics to look for as the market builds a bottom. The market has deteriorated further since then, so I thought you’d benefit from brief updates in my upcoming Wealth Advisories (starting today) so you can see how the process is playing out until the bulls re-take control of the market.

The best time to buy Apple (AAPL) was in 2003 after the Internet Bubble had burst and technology stocks were treated like dirt. Of course, no one wanted AAPL back in 2003, but in the 13 years that followed, the stock soared 9,400%. The best time to sell AAPL was in mid-2012, when AAPL became the world’s most valuable company.