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Two portfolio stocks reported earnings, and ratings remain the same.

These blue-chip Japanese stocks have seemingly been left in the dust by competitors, but they’re recently announced EV partnership could be a game changer.

As stocks have stumbled in recent months, these exchange stocks have picked up steam - emerging as a smart hedge against further market volatility.

Xometry (XMTR) has just announced that preliminary Q4 revenue will be $65.5 - $67.5 million. This is in the range of what we expected when factoring in the $3.5 to $4.5 million of acquired revenue from the Thomas Publishing business. And it’s above management’s prior Q4 guidance of $60 - $62 million. Excluding the acquired revenue, growth was roughly 64.5%.

GameStop (GME) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 results after the market closed yesterday.

Trading volume is notoriously low in July and August, and stocks rarely budge much as a result. Here’s how to navigate the summer months.

In the last few years, year-end planning has been difficult because so many provisions of the law were set to expire at the end of each year, and Congress worked on the law through the holiday seasons. But with most provisions of the tax law settled in the early 2013...

With June expiration coming next Friday, June 18, the Cabot Profit Booster portfolio is in great shape as all four of our existing positions are either at the strike price that we sold (RRC) or well above it (FNKO, IGT, PGNY).

This week my attention turns to selling a July call against an emerging oil and natural gas star that just broke out to new highs last week.

The action of the past few days has been very encouraging, raising the possibility that last week’s fearful dip (driven by eye-grabbing headlines concerning North Korea) was a shakeout. That dip produced some elevated short-term sentiment readings (including the highest put-call ratio since the election and a spike in the VIX volatility index) that are often seen near market lows.

We’re encouraged by what we’ve seen so far in the New Year. Granted, it’s been just three-plus days, but of the stocks that had been setting up into year-end (either as pullbacks or as bases), we’ve seen a few emerge on good volume and hold their gains. That can always reverse, of course, but going with the evidence thus far, it’s bullish.

Playing a competitive tennis match or tournament is a great deal like trading and investing these days. Going into a match, I rarely know the player, his style of play, or how I will approach the match. Similarly, these days in the market, every day is totally new, filled with unexpected swings. But as in tennis, in trading/investing you hit your best shots and put on your highest conviction trades—and over time, you will win out.

We initially executed a bullish trade in WWAV after traders began building long-term bullish positions. I mentioned in my initial trade alert that there has long been speculation that WWAV is a takeover target of Coca Cola (KO), Pepsi (PEP) and other food and beverage companies.

In this topsy-turvy market, it helps to know how the big hedge funds and institutions are spending their money. This Options Barometer gives you the answer.

We’re likely to bump our Market Monitor up a notch this week to level 8 to reflect the strong intermediate- and longer-term trends we’re seeing in the market. We continue to advise buying stocks as opportunities arise (either on solid breakouts or during pauses within uptrends) and to hold onto most of your strong, profitable stocks.

The major indexes continue to show impressive strength and resilience, with any pullbacks limited to just a couple of days before buyers show up again.

Today, I want to describe a simple but powerful chart pattern that can help you identify low-risk entry points, or at the very least, inform you that the stock is acting properly. I’m talking about tightness in a stock price’s movement, and I’m seeing a lot of it these days.

The tech industry isn’t usually the first place investors look when seeking income-generating investments. But as the industry grows up, a growing number of tech companies are finding themselves with cash to spare--and choosing to distribute it to their shareholders. Apple (AAPL) is, of course, the latest and most famous...

Given the straight-up run for six weeks and a few short-term signs of complacency, a bit more uncomfortableness is certainly possible; we’re open to the chance of a passing shower of sorts. And that’s probably a good reason to favor buying on weakness (instead of strength) and to be a bit choosy on the buy side.

We remain bullish overall, and you shouldn’t overreact to an overdue pullback; the major indexes are still in uptrends, and many stocks look fine. That said, given the action, you shouldn’t be complacent, either. Dump anything that cracks, tighten some stops and look for lower-risk entry points.