Daily Posts Archive
Micron Technology (MU) is a stock that we have traded in the past, and it’s held by many top hedge funds. The company reported earnings last night, and option activity in the stock has been interesting lately.
Diversification is one of the first portfolio management principles equity investors learn. It’s simple enough to understand; it’s simply an extrapolation of the old advice not to put all your eggs in one basket. And it’s good advice. But most investors have a narrow view of what diversification means.
You can’t just have a good offense if you’re going to be successful in the market. You also need a good defense, meaning you have to be able to identify when a stock’s major advance has ended and you should book profits.
Option liquidity is a major issue in a stock like INVN versus GE. On average, GE trades close to 100,000 options per day. INVN on the other hand, only trades a couple thousand contracts a day. The time until expiration is another key component to the option width.
Diversification is especially important for long-term buy-and-hold investors. If you plan to hold most of your investments through multiple market cycles, you’ll want to do whatever you can to make sure your portfolio doesn’t get wiped out by one event or sector correction.
Dividends are the most reliable indication of a company’s growth and stability. Dividends are the payments of a company’s hard-earned profits. A company’s ability to continually pay dividends provides concrete evidence that the company is performing well.
Welcome to the fifth and final chapter of my travelog on my recent 17-day 4,218-mile road trip to and through the American midwest and back Today, I wrap up the series with 10 notable things encountered on the trip that were unexpected—presented in the order they were encountered.
Most sector and country funds usually include a major index as a benchmark, the bar that the fund uses to decide whether it’s had a good year or not. But is beating an index really a sufficiently ambitious goal to aim for?
Mike Cintolo discusses the continuing increase in positive evidence in recent weeks—from dour sentiment, to improved action among growth stocks, and now to the Nasdaq’s leap above resistance near 5,100.
NetEase Inc. (NTES, Weiss Ratings: A+) posted a first-quarter jump in profits of 13% while net revenue surged nearly 55%, backed by the high demand for online games and related content. Its shares, up 82% over the past 12 months, were up nearly 7% early...