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Our plant-touching Cabot Cannabis Investor portfolio is up 29.2% since June 25. It is still down for the year. But it is performing better than the sector.

I believe it continues to make sense to stay long cannabis stocks, despite the big gains in the past month. Now, with the appointment of Terrance Cole to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), cannabis investors are one step closer to learning how serious the Trump administration is about rescheduling cannabis.

To identify great companies, there are a number of key factors you need to look for as an investor. Here are five that always catch my eye.

The newly named Nikola stock is gaining momentum from its new electric-charged Nikola Badger truck. Can it challenge Tesla?

Occasionally, we bring you articles from outside sources that we think you will be interested in and benefit from. Today, we have an article from StreetAuthority’s Stock of the Month editor Amy Calistri.

The end of a year is a great opportunity to make a New Year’s Resolution to be a better investor. The question is: what should you resolve? The experience of people who vow to lose weight or stop smoking or learn Chinese should give you a little guidance here. Huge resolutions often lead to huge failures.

There are a lot of “can’t miss” investments out there that miss. So let me keep things simple for you: try this China ETF.

The market has acted well since its Monday morning shakeout—that dip pushed the S&P 500 and other indexes below their 50-day lines, and even had the S&P 600 SmallCap kissing 16 week lows, but buyers stepped in and have generally driven prices higher since.

We remain mostly bullish—our Market Monitor is currently at a level 7 (out of 10), and we could push it a notch higher depending on how things go today and Monday. Thus, you should be heavily invested. But we’ll wait for some decisive strength to floor the accelerator.

With the election nearly on top of us, ideas for investing based on the outcome are everywhere. Many anticipate that a Romney presidency would mean a stronger dollar, falling bond prices, lower commodity prices, higher defense spending and either weakness in financial stocks (because of higher interest rates) or strength in...

China and the U.S. are going toe to toe at the Winter Olympics. It’s a microcosm for their global tilt, with high stakes for your portfolio.

Cryptocurrencies have lost two-thirds of their value in the last year; it’s not the first time that has happened and may not be the last. If you’re looking for a long-term play, consider this LEAPS options trade.

When Warren Buffett talks, it’s time to listen. So with Berkshire investing in solar companies, it’s time to look at these clean energy ETFs.

While the big-cap indexes were acting fine, we had been writing about an increasing number of yellow flags out there—it started with secondary measures like sentiment (which got buoyant in the weeks after the election), and early last week, we saw the first signs that some key leading stocks were coming under pressure. Indeed, we came into this week with our Market Monitor down to a level 6.

2024 has been a banner year for the market, especially when it comes to tech stocks, and these are the best-performing large-cap stocks this year.

The “Great Consolidation,” a multi-industry, multi-decade trend of mergers and acquisitions, is poised to continue fueling inflation. Here’s how to play it.

Last week, I wrote about the problems facing the newspaper industry and some possible solutions. I asked for your feedback and I got a huge (and insightful) response. So today I’m going to feature many of the best letters submitted via email and on our blog, The Iconoclast Investor. If you haven’t shared your view on this yet, either send me an email or post it on the blog, where it’ll get shared with your fellow readers as well. Thanks for writing in!

Nio (NIO) was up 22% this week though markets face headwinds of inflation and increasingly loose talk of recession by many including Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. With regret, we let go of Sea (SE) but add another favorite selling at a sharp discount to its high—and in the middle of the unstoppable trend of cybersecurity.

This was a tough week for all of us as growth stocks, particularly tech stocks, were impacted by concerns over higher interest rates and slower economic growth. Events in China with its economic slowdown and European conflict are not helping matters either. This week we head to Chile for a double commodity play on food and electric vehicles.

Aside from Sea (SE), which zoomed from 80 to 88 this past week, Explorer stocks were largely flat, which to some these days is a good week. This week we look at the history of market pullbacks and some encouraging analysis on bounce-backs and trade before getting to a new recommendation from Shanghai.