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In my mind, Warren Buffett is the best investor ever. Here are eight guidelines that will help you become a better investor.

Once a very popular stock (or sector) falls from favor, it takes far more than six months’ time to make it an attractive stock again.

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Advance Auto Parts (AAP) are among five stocks with the right credentials to perform well in 2012.

With high home prices and high mortgage rates, it may not feel like you can profit from real estate right now. But you can, and here’s how.

Two weeks ago, HomeAway released an excellent third-quarter earnings report, which brought buyers running.

Recognize the fact that the market, reflecting the sum knowledge and perceptions of all investors, is smarter than any one of us.

Here at Cabot we use indexes a lot; they’re central to our method of market timing.

Lately, Canadian companies appear clearly undervalued and offer excellent appreciation potential during the next one to three years.

“It’s time, not timing,” versus “Timing is everything.”

I scanned my database to find 10 stocks with the right credentials to perform very well in 2016. My top 10 picks are stocks of U.S. companies with exceptional prospects for 2016. All of my stock selections are selling at bargain prices, and all have the potential to easily beat the stock market indexes in 2016!

Lots of analysts work hard at trying to figure out what equity markets are going to do. These people pour over interest rates, unemployment figures, inflation (both producer and consumer), GDP growth and a trillion other statistics to try to predict how the U.S. and global economies will perform in the short, medium and long terms. It’s a fun exercise. The trouble is that, to quote George Bernard Shaw, “If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion.”

Something I’m always concerned about it how we’re communicating with our readers. One way that I stay informed is by reading blogs. While I was brainstorming about how we can better communicate with you and vice versa, I began to think that a blog might be the way for us to reach out to our readers, while at the same time hearing what you have to say. So after hammering out the details, I am pleased to announce the creation of The Iconoclast Investor (iconoclast-investor.com), a place for the Cabot editors to share their thoughts and you to share yours.

Cabot Small-Cap Confidential, a limited subscription newsletter, is one of our newest publications, launched just one year ago. Its focus is on finding undervalued and little-known small-cap companies that are poised to break out in a big way. The number one request Cabot has had over the years has been to find great stocks sooner and with Cabot Small-Cap Confidential, we’re able to do that.

Eventually, when real estate prices fall low enough, the patient value-oriented souls who’ve been waiting for bargains will come out of the woodwork and start buying. They’ll buy individual houses, apartment buildings, entire condominium projects and more. Downtrends will end. The recession will end. And the U.S. of A. will return to its pattern of slow growth. But should you wait until then before you invest? No, as I explain in the next section.

These 10 stocks look like good investments for the short and long term.

Last week, I wrote about the problems and solutions I see for e-readers. This week, I’m publishing some of your comments.

Any stock can be undervalued. It can be a company that’s underperforming and has been given a low valuation.

The U.S. economy is growing more quickly than before the pandemic, both the S&P 500 and S&P 600 are up modestly over the past week and, so far, this earnings season has been a massive improvement over the train wreck of the first-quarter reporting season.

The big picture for the market is that the uptrend is intact but under the surface we’re continuing to see pockets of turbulence. While the S&P 500 is just 2% off its high from last week and the S&P 600 Small Cap Index hit a fresh all-time high yesterday, the Nasdaq is 6% off its high and trading right on its 50-day line.