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There are a lot of things that are improved with a little pumpkin. Freshly baked pumpkin and apple muffins and of course, pumpkin pie, are on the top of the list. Companies that make flavorings are as varied as the industry itself. Here is the list of 3 flavorful stocks to spice up your portfolio.

Apple may be the most respected consumer electronics brand in the world. Its users are loyal. Its premium pricing means it’s a very profitable company, with after-tax profit margins of 21.6% in the latest quarter. But there are a couple of reasons why I think AAPL might not be the best investment.

Perhaps the only consistency in the oil market is a lack thereof. The repeating pattern of boom and bust has played out over and over again, regardless of time and place. Oil stocks from the U.S. to Africa to the Middle East to the South Pacific do the same thing. Predicting when and how long each cycle lasts is impossible. But that doesn’t stop investors from trying! The potential gains from the booms are just too juicy.

While the vast majority of my research involves growth stocks, I do keep an eye out for potential turnaround situations. Why? Because historically, about one out of every five or six big winners will be a turnaround situation—especially in so-so economic times. (In the late 1990s, by contrast, almost all the big winners were growth stocks.) So, even though I never, ever (ever!) buy stocks and sectors that are in longer-term downtrends, I do keep an eye on them for signs that they’re turning higher. That leads me to energy and gold stocks.

Tomorrow the Fed is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in many years. What the market will do in reaction is literally anyone’s guess. That said, I can use the options market to price-in expected moves and risks.

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!

The market finished with a bang at the end of last week, spurred by excellent earnings news from technology leaders Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT). If you own the leaders, this is a rewarding market. But beneath the surface, all is not well.

There was a lot of anxiety in August and September. And the market uncertainty manifested into a pretty steep decline across global markets. My favorite asset class, small caps, was far from immune to the weakness. But like waves on the ocean, the market moves in cycles over time, and long-term performance is improved by buying in troughs, not at crests. That’s why I recently increased the size of a few long-term positions in my personal small-cap portfolio, and advised Cabot Small-Cap Confidential subscribers to do the same.

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.

This strategy involves the selling of a call at a lower strike price, while simultaneously buying a call at a higher strike price. The maximum profit on this strategy is the premium you collect. The maximum loss is the difference between the strikes, minus the premium you collect.

When a testimonial comes from a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at investment giant Raymond James & Associates, we’re quite pleased about it. After all, a company that has over $500 billion in total client assets probably got big by being smart.

Weight Watchers International (WTW 15.75) received a huge boost on the news that Oprah Winfrey had invested $43 million in the stock and will take a seat on the company’s board of directors and become a spokesperson. The news sent Weight Watchers’ stock price soaring 132% last week to 15.75. Here are my thoughts on the stock.

Many of us are holding personal stock positions that have taken a beating this year. If you are long too many stocks in the wrong sector, the pain has been extreme. So how can you start to “dig out” of these holes? You can sell calls, using a “laddered” call selling strategy against these stock positions to lower our cost basis.