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The major theme that I’m noticing during this earnings season is that Wall Street analysts were low-balling their earnings and revenue estimates as they cautiously assessed the potential impact of the COVID-19 virus on business activity.

There was a lot going on in the market this week but news flow from our portfolio holdings was relatively quiet.

The iShares EM Fund (EEM) has rebounded sharply and is well above both its 25- and 50-day moving average. That keeps the Buy signal in the Cabot Emerging Markets Timer shining brightly. We have one rating change tonight.

Ever since the story broke last week that Bernard Madoff had lost perhaps $50 billion of investments entrusted to him by friends, hedge funds, charities, etc., I’ve been looking for the answers to a few questions. When and how did it first go wrong? Was there one leveraged investment that went bad back before 1999, when the SEC first “investigated”? Did he dig himself out of that hole only to fall into another one or has he been producing bogus statements steadily since then? Who on the inside of the company was aware of the fraud? And what was the conversation like between father and sons before they turned him in? One thing is clear; the man will now find out who his true friends are.

Cabot’s market timing indicators show that the intermediate- and longer-term trends of the market are both up, so you can continue to put money to work judiciously. We have one ratings change today—PGX to Hold—but most of our holdings were very quiet over the past week.

Stock investing is just like golf in every way that matters. Markets are completely impartial and their rewards and punishments are meted out with an even hand. They cannot be mastered. You can make two investments that seem exactly the same to you and yet one will deliver a sack of cash and another will turn into a box of rocks. Just as in golf, the most important question in investing is “What are you going to do next?” In both golf and investing, sometimes you go for the big shot and sometimes you play it safe. But whining about conditions won’t help you a bit. And just like golf, investing requires you to know your own temperament and limitations and the current conditions on the course and play accordingly if you’re going to make money.

EV automakers Tesla and newly public Rivian and Lucid are getting lots of ink. But there are other ways to play the EV ecosystem stock boom.

Our FREE investing series reports will help you navigate changes headed your way at light speed.

An analyst at Morgan Stanley used numbers to argue last week that TSLA will go to 320!

Ahead of the “big” Federal Reserve announcement on Wednesday, the market surged higher last week.

A person stops being a chump by finding a successful investing system that makes sense to them and then following it!

What stocks do I like right now? One stock to keep you eye on is Alibaba.

While mega-cap tech stocks have seized all the headlines, these five stocks have quietly established themselves as the best-performing stocks so far this year.

The key to success isn’t in some exotic, proprietary system, but in sticking to basic principles.

The following four stocks have been down and out for quite some time. Which one is the most likely turnaround stock candidate?

There are suddenly a lot of electric vehicle stocks out there. Let’s examine each of them and see which are worth investing in.

The FAANGs are the biggest growth stocks on the market today. What are the companies most likely to be the next FAANG stocks?

The fact that P/E is popular does’t mean that it is always useful. Having more data is not always better.

Today, I tackle a few notable questions from readers that are probably indicative of wider sentiment.

Why this question doesn’t matter when investing in the stock market.