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Holding a great growth stock forever can be smart. Excellent stock-picking combined with a bull market can be rewarding.

So what do I tell people who ask why they should buy individual stocks? First, you can make money by buying stocks.

“Priceline.com, Inc. (PCLN) is a leader in global online hotel reservations with over 270,000 participating hotels worldwide. Priceline’s business is not capital intensive and thus generates strong free cash flows, which have steadily and rapidly grown from $140 million in 2007 to $1.3 billion in 2011. The company...

In this era of super-low bond yields, income investors sometimes have to get creative to keep the cash flow coming. To help, I’m on a constant mission to present alternatives to bond income. In our latest Dividend Edition, I reviewed some of the alternative income-generating asset classes I discussed...

2013 is off to a good start. The market is doing well, and sentiment is lousy: that’s the perfect environment for further market gains.

Here are the biggest winners of 2012. I got this list by screening all stocks that trade on U.S. exchanges.

2013 is off to a good start, market-wise. The major indexes have all held the big gains they made on December 31 and January 2 (the latter has been dubbed the fiscal cliff relief rally). In most cases, that puts them right around their multi-year highs reached in September-October. Yet investors...

In 2012, the small-cap index measured by the Russell 2000 was up 16.35%. I expect small-caps indexes to post impressive gains in 2013.

If you had a way to know when the bull actually takes charge of the market, you could make money with that knowledge.

In the first Stock Market Crash Course of the New Year, we take a look at the New Year’s Rally to see how long it could last. Most of our contributors, including Stephen Quickel and John Nyaradi, are cautiously optimistic but looking for further confirmation of the rally’s strength in...