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With airline and cruise bookings eclipsing pre-pandemic levels, it appears that vacationers’ pent-up travel demands are finally being unleashed in this “revenge travel” summer. Here’s how you can save money as you tick a few items off your own travel bucket list and profit from the most in-demand travel companies.

Last week, I wrote here about coiled spring stocks, i.e., those equities with buying power that buoys them during downturns and propels them rapidly upward once those downturns end. The most recent Investment Digest contains yet another great crop of these standouts, two of which I want to discuss here--Sapient...

Today is the expiration of our first positions.

The market is indicated to open slightly higher this morning as stocks continue to work to officially come out of their correction. Our Cabot Trend Lines remains positive and the Real Money Index tells us many weak hands have already bailed out, both good signs. But we’re waiting on the Cabot Tides to give a green light before doing any major new buying from here.

Our Cabot Tides turned positive today, and while the market is still very volatile and divergent, there’s no question the evidence is improving.

The Long Iron Condor position is the combination of a short call spread and a short put spread in the same underlying.

Cava Grill (CAVA) Reports. FTAI Aviation (FTAI) Update

The fourth quarter earnings season is well under way and the results have been somewhat spectacular so far, and much better than expected.

Things have been rough in the MedTech world lately.

The new class of weight loss drugs (GLP-1s) is shaking things up way more than expected. And rather than think things through it appears that larger investors have decided to take down their exposure to MedTech now and ask questions later.

Just take a look at the iShares Medical Device ETF (IHI). It has fallen from 58 in late July to under 46 today, a greater than 20% decline.

The market was in a normal, shake-the-tree correction for most of November, but the past two weeks have seen a massive wave of selling that’s cracked our Cabot Tides and scores of individual stocks. Yes, there’s a chance this could be a big news-driven shakeout (virus and Fed tapering worries, etc.), so we’re not sticking our head in the sand, but there’s no question the sellers are in control and many stocks are going to need a ton of repair work.

We’ve sold a bunch of names from the Model Portfolio in the past two weeks, and while we’re not opposed to adding a half position or two if the market finds its footing, we’re sitting tight with a large cash position tonight.

Stocks may be trading at all-time highs, but economists and analysts are looking for even more gains going into 2025. So, with meaningful catalysts still on the horizon, here are the strategies you can use and the steps you can take right now to take advantage of the continuing bull market.

It’s been a wild market so far this year. The S&P 500 has gone from the cusp of a bear market to within 5% of the all-time high in just seven weeks.

Uncertainty remains. A negative development could still roil the market on any day. Negotiations will likely take more twists and turns in the weeks and months ahead. But investors appear, at this point, to believe that the tariff situation won’t blow up. The fear of Armageddon is being removed.

But there’s still the economy. It could gain steam or slow toward recession. We are in a place, at least for a while, where anything can happen. It’s tough to pick a horse amid such varying possibilities. Fortunately, there is a trend to bank on that will thrive regardless of the near-term gyrations of the market or economy.

Artificial intelligence is a massive growth catalyst that will endure and thrive in any environment. Investors temporarily forgot all about it. It’s a generational phenomenon that hasn’t gone away. It just took a break. Now, those stocks are soaring back.

In this issue, I highlight a stock that is likely to benefit in the months and years ahead. It is still well off the high with good momentum and has a huge catalyst for growth in the months and years ahead.

There’s a lot of mystery and misinformation out there about options trading. Here are five common misconceptions - and what the real truth is.

The good news today is that the bottom seems to have passed, for both the broad market and stocks in the cannabis sector. The S&P 500 was down 25% at the bottom, while the cannabis index was down 84% at the bottom—and for both, that seems enough.

The fifth stock in my series on forever stocks to buy for 2018 is SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE) - the Home Depot of the landscape supply industry.