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Stocks enjoyed a good rally today, with growth stocks in the lead—at day’s end, the Dow was up 271 points while the Nasdaq lifted 115 points. Not much has changed with the overall environment over the past week. From a top-down point of view, things remain mostly choppy and challenging, with our Cabot Tides remaining effectively neutral, relatively few stocks hitting new highs (though there has been a bit of improvement of late) and even growth-oriented indexes (IWO, IVOG, ARKK) mostly stuck in the mud.

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One major factor in investing, particularly in small stocks and young sectors where growing pains are still the norm, is sentiment. Good sentiment can take a sector to extreme highs—as it has done for the marijuana sector at every major legalization milepost.

Remain bullish, but keep your eyes open. Our indicators and most of our stocks are still trending up, though we’re seeing some funky action that’s worth monitoring.

The new all time high is a significant milestone. Although the S&P 500 hasn’t hit new highs quite yet it is only just about .01% from the mark. The new high is significant because it negates any possibility that we have been in a bear market since September, when the previous high was established.

The market is still serving up its fair share of surprises, both to the upside and to the downside. We’ve experienced a few of both in our portfolio, and over the last two weeks, we’ve stepped aside from three stocks (my rationale was detailed in the Special Bulletins). This week, two of our stocks reported, and I moved one to Sell.

The market’s attention has been squarely focused on jobs this week as updates on that front are likely to influence the Fed’s upcoming decision on interest rates next week. If it hikes (which is likely), it will mark just the third increase since the financial crisis.

It continues to be a sloppy market but we’re working through it and there will be big opportunities in small-cap stocks on the other side of this.

How high do gas prices have to get before you’d consider buying an electric car?

Acme Packet (APKT) and SanDisk (SNDK) were both recently featured in Cabot Top Ten Report.

It’s been another crazy week in pandemic-land. After an interruption last week, the market seems to have resumed its ascent.

A sure-fire method to find strong stocks is to ferret out high-quality stocks with low PEGnD ratio.

The major indexes got hit today, though damage among growth stocks wasn’t too bad. At day’s end, the Dow was off 260 points while the Nasdaq slid 105 points.

The market seems to want to move higher, albeit slowly and with rude interruptions from the headlines. The S&P 500 is within less than 1% off the all-time high set in July, although the index has been somewhat range-bound since June.

The iShares EM Fund (EEM) is holding above its moving averages, which keeps the Cabot Emerging Markets Timer a bright green. But the weakness in Chinese stocks is hitting the portfolio hard. In response, we have six moves today.

As more hedge funds gravitate to exchange traded funds over individual stocks, here are the six best ETFs today as measured by relative performance.

Consumer stocks were some of the best performers in 2014, with many retailers showing extraordinary strength toward the end of the year.

Want to protect gains in one of your better stocks? Use protective puts! Here’s how it works, using Twilio (TWLO) and Canopy Growth (CGC) as examples.

I think we’ve just passed an important market bottom and I believe the smartest thing you can do today is invest in great growth companies. More specifically, I believe the smartest thing you can do today—particularly given the uncertainty in Europe—is invest in great growth companies here in the good old U.S. of A.

This market looks like it wants to go higher. After selling off nearly 10% in September, the S&P 500 has resumed its uptrend and is not far from the all time high.