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The market has been resilient through the first few weeks of 2023, giving hope that a much better year lies ahead for investors. Potential potholes abound (earnings season is underway, another Fed rate hike next week, a possible recession looming, etc.), but for now, there’s reason for optimism. With that in mind, we take another big swing today by adding a mid-cap technology stock that was just recommended by Cabot Early Opportunities Chief Analyst Tyler Laundon.

Last week I downgraded four stocks to Hold, and this week I recommend selling two—one for a fat profit and one for a quick loss. Still, because I keep adding a new stock every week, that leaves nineteen stocks in the portfolio, and most of them are acting very well!

As to this week’s recommendation, it’s a real wild card, a recent Chinese IPO that has been spun off from one of the big Chinese leaders. Risk-averse investors might want to give it a pass, or at least wait until there’s an established uptrend, but if you can handle the risk, buying down here might work out really well!

China is a country that, as we all know, is changing fast ... but is still misunderstood. While writing the title of this column, I was tempted to use the word xenophobia, meaning fear or contempt of strangers or foreign peoples. But the word I want (which appears not to exist) means, “underestimating the power of the people of a foreign country.” Because when it comes to China, I fear that’s exactly the mistake most Americans are making today. To the vast majority of Americans, China is, first and foremost, a Communist country. Americans “know” Communism is the wrong way to go. However, for the past quarter-century, the Chinese economy has grown at an average annual rate of 10%.

Last year, I started writing a series explaining our investment advisories in an effort to help answer one of the most common questions we get from investors, “Which Cabot publication is right for me?” Also last year, we expanded the Cabot family by purchasing Dick Davis Digest and Income Digest. This is what Timothy Lutts wrote at the time: “Now, it’s our honor to be the steward of these well-respected publications. Our goal is to honor the past reputation of these Digests, while improving the newsletters so they serve subscribers better in this Internet age. I’ll be telling you much more about these Digests in the future.”

Forget the Dora the Explorer, Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers, kids will soon have a new idol to emulate in the form of a new cartoon series starring ... Warren Buffett. No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. The famed billionaire investor is the star of a new online cartoon series aimed at teaching children about financial responsibility. (After the credit crisis, housing market debacle and stock market meltdown last year, it seems like more than just kids would benefit from this series.)

I wrote to you a few months ago about our venture into video. Today, I’m presenting you with Cabot’s very first weekly stock market review with Michael Cintolo.

As summer morphs into fall and Wall Street returns to full operation, I’m seeing some welcome signs of buying in the cannabis sector. So today we’ll join them, by averaging up in two of our holdings.

Eleven years ago, Sears stock was at all-time highs, a $23 billion company. Now the company is bankrupt, and the stock is almost at zero. What happened?!

China was the first country to be devastated by coronavirus, and although the pandemic there is not completely over (and there are doubts about the accuracy of that country’s daily virus count), it’s almost surely on a downhill swing. That’s helped the Shanghai composite to fare better than the S&P this year, and not surprisingly, many (not all) Chinese stocks have shown some interesting resilience during this crisis

Earnings season can be make or break for some stocks. By abiding by this simple rule, however, it won’t break your portfolio.

Identifying the best ETFs of 2017 is a good predictor of what sectors have plenty of momentum heading into 2018. Here are five that stood out.

If a second stock market crash is underway, treat it as an opportunity to buy good stocks at prices more aligned with the current economic environment.

The so-called FANGMAN stocks now account for 30% of the entire stock market. Where they go next will determine where stocks as a whole go.

Stock market predictions are futile, especially now. But by reading charts and watching options activity, we can get a hint of where things are headed next.

Snapchat’s valuation is overinflated right out of the gates. But does that mean it’s due for an immediate comeuppance? Not necessarily.

Black Friday stocks got good early news with October retail sales coming in better than expected. A few sectors in particular stood out.

Disruptive technologies and products change the world. Disruptive stocks make early investors a ton of money. Here’s what I mean.