Daily Posts Archive

Earlier this week, I got an email from a subscriber to Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report asking for advice about how to handle Vipshop Holdings (VIPS). I’m including a couple of charts of VIPS, so you can see what I’m talking about.

I would never advise trading solely on any secondary measure, but they can give an alert to a possible upcoming change in the market’s character, which is why I keep an eye on them.

A Put-Write strategy is used when a rise in the price of the underlying asset is expected, or a significant decline is not expected.

It turns out that rising market rates, and even periods of tightening by the Federal Reserve, aren’t death knells for the stock market. And, rising rates often coincide with powerful bull markets!

Our Spotlight stock, Textura Corporation (TXTR)—a company that is using cloud-based technology to make project management more cost-effective and efficient—reminded me of my experiences in building a couple of homes over the years. While I ended up with some very nice homes, despite the best intentions—and a lot...

Today brings the third installment about my recent 17-day 4,218-mile road trip to and through the American Midwest and back—which I’m presenting not chronologically but thematically. Today’s theme is art, not least because my wife is an artist, and the one concrete reason for this trip was an opening reception at the “Minnesota Center for Book Arts” in which she had work.

When I say that we are now in a stock-picker’s market, what I’m saying is that the only people who are making any money in stocks over the past six months are the people who are researching, buying and selling individual stocks.

Amid this relentlessly sideways market, fast food stocks have been a surprising outlier. Here’s why that outperformance shouldn’t be a surprise.

That constant tug-of-war between the bulls and the bears has been a recurring theme of late. And the back-and-forth market direction has reached historic levels.