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On June 18, I received an email from a subscriber to Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report, the investment advisory for which I’m Chief Analyst. Here’s what I wrote back to my subscriber, slightly edited.

Option liquidity is a major issue in a stock like INVN versus GE. On average, GE trades close to 100,000 options per day. INVN on the other hand, only trades a couple thousand contracts a day. The time until expiration is another key component to the option width.

Micron Technology (MU) is a stock that we have traded in the past, and it’s held by many top hedge funds. The company reported earnings last night, and option activity in the stock has been interesting lately.

from Capitalist Times In its fiscal third quarter ended March 31, 2015, Student Transportation (STB) grew its revenue by 13% and its cash flow by 20%. Operating margins also widened to 20.6% from 19.3% a year ago, thanks to lower fuel costs and efficiency gains. In recent years, the company has sought...

MarketWatch reports that Cabot Market Letter owes its strong performance in 2007 to market timing and stock selection.

The stock market is always looking ahead, and though earnings are huge, it looks like the airline sector has topped out. Look at the Airline Index (XAL).

I often write that “XYZ stock is showing a good set-up” or “is set-up nicely.” What exactly do I mean? That’s a question I’ve gotten a few times during the past couple of weeks, so I thought I’d add some color to it here.

The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is well under way and will accelerate as automobiles using these new energy sources become more competitively priced and more convenient to use—which will bring some creative destruction to the energy industry. (Most people don’t see it coming yet, but that’s typical when it comes to long-entrenched technologies.)

Our Spotlight stock, Textura Corporation (TXTR)—a company that is using cloud-based technology to make project management more cost-effective and efficient—reminded me of my experiences in building a couple of homes over the years. While I ended up with some very nice homes, despite the best intentions—and a lot...

Today brings the third installment about my recent 17-day 4,218-mile road trip to and through the American Midwest and back—which I’m presenting not chronologically but thematically. Today’s theme is art, not least because my wife is an artist, and the one concrete reason for this trip was an opening reception at the “Minnesota Center for Book Arts” in which she had work.

That constant tug-of-war between the bulls and the bears has been a recurring theme of late. And the back-and-forth market direction has reached historic levels.

I’m a big fan of moderation. I drive fast during my commute to Cabot, but I never want to be the fastest car on the highway. I like to watch television, but my family makes do with a 32-inch screen. And while I certainly like to eat and drink, I avoid restaurants with unlimited buffets; I can’t eat all I can eat. But today, what I really want to write about is the path of moderation in growth investing.

Columnist Peter Brimelow comments on top-performing Cabot Market Letter’s bullish market view.

Cabot Market Letter was recognized as one of only nine investment newsletters in this year’s Hulbert Financial Digest Honor Roll.

Amid this relentlessly sideways market, fast food stocks have been a surprising outlier. Here’s why that outperformance shouldn’t be a surprise.

As of November last year, Agilent’s (A) Electronic Measurement business unit is now traded as a brand-new public company—Keysight Technologies (KEYS). Keysight’s three main business segments are Aerospace/Defense; Communications; and Industrial, Computer, Semiconductor. Keysight currently invests more than 12% of its revenues in R&D, which has led...

Yesterday the airline sector fell dramatically after American Airlines (AAL) CEO said that airlines are expanding capacity too quickly. Get the options perspective from Jacob Mintz.

This week, I’m jumping on the “one simple rule” bandwagon that seems to be sweeping the Internet to give you an investing idea that can save your portfolio when things get stormy.

Timer Digest named Cabot Market Letter a Top Ten Stock Market Timer for short, intermediate and long-term.

Last week, Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen caused a stir by suggesting that the stock market is overvalued, saying equity valuations are “quite high.”