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Much of the advice and so-called facts that you hear on TV and read about in financial magazines is basically nonsense. I found that out the hard way. By losing money! So, here are some things to keep in mind as you enter the market’s battles of 2010.

I encourage you to develop a checklist to use before you decide to buy stocks. It should be strict enough to keep you out of trouble.

Investors hate stock market volatility. Watching your holdings fly up and down—especially when they’re losing value—is unsettling, and makes it very difficult to make rational investment decisions. That’s why I frequently remind readers to take a step back from the market and try to ignore the day-to-day action of their...

Cabot’s growth editors recently came up with a new list of our best stocks.

The earlier people retire, the sooner their cognitive functions begin to decline.

Everyone knows Warren Buffett. As the dean of value investing in the U.S, the Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) draws thousands of people to his annual meetings in Omaha. As the world’s greatest investor, Warren Buffett seemingly has it all. But there’s one major advantage you have over the Oracle of Omaha.

This week’s update includes our comments on earnings from Baker Hughes (BKR) and Mattel (MAT) as well as commentary on several stocks.

As of 10 a.m. ET this morning, the market is solidly green, with a broad advance taking both the Dow (up 386 points) and Nasdaq (up 192 points) nicely higher.

The action in the second half of August was encouraging, but as has been the story of 2021, a lot of that move has been erased so far in September—and that goes for just about everything.

Growth stocks remain very strong, and our market timing indicators remain positive, so you should remain mostly bullish. Of course, you should also keep your feet on the ground, as there’s little doubt things are fairly frothy here so some potholes could occur at any time.

The indexes are having another good day today, led by growth stocks this time—as of 3:30pm, the Dow is up 253 points and the Nasdaq is up a big 322 points.

Remain bullish, but continue to keep your antennae up. The Nasdaq has pushed to new highs, our trend-following indicators are positive and most leading stocks remain in uptrends, so we’re still in a bullish frame of mind.

Complacency is never a good sign in the stock market. The market climbs a wall of worry, for which fear is needed. So it’s reasonable that, after eight weeks of persistent upward movement, many investors and advisors are saying, “too good to be true.” And yet... the market keeps rising. Recently,...

First and foremost, I just want to say Happy Holidays to you and yours! Today I’ll go over a few of the things I’ve learned this year.

The Aggressive Aggressive approach can yield outstanding longer-term returns ... possibly the best of all trading systems.

Small caps have pulled back ever so slightly from the all-time highs of last week. But that’s not the big news of the week. The larger event was yesterday’s Fed meeting, during which Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that a start to tapering of asset purchases was still a “ways off” but that this was a “talking about talking about meeting.”

Small caps and growth stocks continue to look better for the third consecutive week. This is a welcome trend given that the beginning of May was pretty tough.

The market continues to grind higher and the small cap index, which we haven’t talked about in forever, is finally opening up some white space above its pre-pandemic high. In fact, the S&P 600 Small Cap Index is, at this very moment, trading at an all-time high.

Most growth stocks are still on their launching pads, which I think is a good thing, at least for now—if the market strengthens from here, my guess is we’ll see some rotation into exciting new growth ideas. That said, I’m also seeing many “follow-on” opportunities in growth stocks—names that soared to new price highs in recent weeks (often following a great earnings report) and have since traded very tightly on light volume … a constructive sign that higher prices are ahead.

Explorer positions had an up week as the S&P 500 has begun a turnaround from bear market territory and is now down “only” about 13% for the year. This means it is up around 6% since hitting its recent low on May 19 as the Fed has softened its tone and China tries to get growth going.

Electric vehicle sales are set to more than triple to just over 20 million in 2025, according to BloombergNEF. This is up from a previous estimate of 15 million.