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2 for 1 is a monthly publication following an IRA account owned by its editor and publisher, Neil Macneale III. The 2 for 1 account and the newsletter were initiated in 1996. Motivated by the goal of beating the S&P 500 while keeping concepts extremely simple, Macneale developed an investment...
Theodore Sturgeon used to go to a lot of conventions and writers’ events where he answered questions, both in panels and in conversations in the lobby. He got tired of defending science fiction against charges of low quality, so he created Sturgeon’s Law* to explain. The Law says, “Ninety percent of everything is crap.” And when you think about it, you’ll have to admit that there aren’t that many genuinely excellent entries in any category.
In this week’s Stock Market Video, Mike Cintolo discusses the market’s re-test of its August lows this week, which has brought a couple of rays of light.
Investors love a bargain, and buying cheap stocks after a big haircut can be wickedly profitable. But they also know how painful it can be to be early—or late.
Many of us are holding personal stock positions that have taken a beating this year. If you are long too many stocks in the wrong sector, the pain has been extreme. So how can you start to “dig out” of these holes? You can sell calls, using a “laddered” call selling strategy against these stock positions to lower our cost basis.
How will the electric utilities—and the solar energy-producing homeowners—evolve to serve this fleet of electric cars? And ultimately—when will I be able to summon an autonomous car with my smartphone, tell it to take me to my destination, and exit the vehicle upon arrival, all without dealing with a human? The answers to these questions are still unknown, which means there’s a lot of opportunity in this market, and that’s one reason the readers of my Cabot Stock of the Month are still holding onto Tesla, with profits exceeding 750%.
Caterpillar (CAT) stock has fallen 7% in two days after the company issued an earnings warning and announced over 10,000 job cuts last Thursday. Now at five-year lows, this could represent a once-in-a-decade buying opportunity in the blue-chip heavy machinery stock.
One of the basic industries that has recently caught my interest is infrastructure, particularly water infrastructure in the U.S.
When a testimonial comes from a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at investment giant Raymond James & Associates, we’re quite pleased about it. After all, a company that has over $500 billion in total client assets probably got big by being smart.