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One of the most interesting parts of my job is answering questions from subscribers, mostly about growth investing. The questions I get tell me an enormous amount about how investors are thinking, what they’re worrying about and how they’re handling market conditions. Here is a question I got last week, and the answer I sent back.

Priceline.com (PCLN) has been doing well and has the potential to go higher.

Legalizing marijuana would not only create a great new source of revenue, it would also bring quality control to the industry, create thousands of new legal jobs, and - best of all - stop the practice of imprisoning people who were only working to make a buck by filling the market’s demand ... which could save us many billions of dollars a year, reduce ancillary violent crime, return people to the labor force and make families whole again.

In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo discusses the market’s worsening action, but he is still seeing plenty of growth stocks holding up well.

In this week’s video, Paul looks at the market and sees it’s a good situation, but not ideal.

In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the major indexes building on their gains and some stocks poking into new high ground.

Finding out-of-favor stocks that are primed to right the ship is difficult business. These four turnaround stock traits have served me well.

Apple may not have the typical valuation multiples of a value stock, but does its market dominance, fiercely loyal followers and cash flow story outweigh the elevated share price?

Bargain stocks are hard to come by in today’s market. One useful tool in finding them is the EV/sales ratio. Here’s what to look for.

The Reddit crowd took a lot of heat for pumping up stocks that immediately crashed. But some Reddit stocks actually have staying power.

I avoid watching TV news, especially during election season. I prefer to read the newspaper, where sensationalism and entertainment still take a backseat to information most of the time--and I can always skip some parts. But I do love TV for entertainment, and one of my favorite shows is Jon...

“Investors remain on hair-trigger alert for any sign of weakness, anywhere. Fear is the dominant emotion, which makes trading in relatively volatile metals and other resources stocks a dicey business. But if you’re looking to establish a long-term position in a high-quality company with solid prospects for dividend growth, you...

From StreetAuthority Market Advisor: “Precious metals investors have had plenty to cheer about lately. Gold climbed 30% last year, yet it placed third among metal returns. It was easily bested by silver, which just hit a 31-year high....

“Fertilizer maker Agrium, Inc. (AGU) has dropped from its peak of $98 in February 2011. That’s mainly due to fears that the global economy is entering another recession. Still, Agrium’s long-term outlook remains strong. That’s largely because rising prosperity in developing regions, such as Asia and Latin America,...

After a big start to the year, gold prices are plummeting, signified by the steep drop in the GLD ETF. But there’s one way to play the volatility in metals.

Time stock’s rare bounce in response to the Time-Meredith deal is an example of why it pays to own takeover targets - at least until they’re taken over.

One of my favorite stocks for this year is Cree Inc. (CREE), which is in the business of making light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

After a brutal couple of weeks for growth (especially) and the broad market (a bit near the end), this week finally saw a bit of encouraging action. No, the major indexes haven’t lit up the sky (the S&P 500 is flat and the Nasdaq is up around 1% on the week), but we have seen some support appear—the market fell Monday and Tuesday and gapped down sharply on Wednesday, but most stuff has bounced nicely since then.

The first three sessions of this holiday-shortened week have been down across the board for the major indexes, but as has been the case, the damage has been tame in some places and harsh in others. Big-cap indexes are down less than 1% (and should be flat-ish after this morning’s open), while broad market indexes (NYSE Composite, small- and mid-caps) are down 2% to 3%, mostly due to weakness in financials, energy and transports.

This week’s rally was enough to turn the intermediate-term trend up—small caps are still lagging a bit, which isn’t ideal, but every major index is back above its 50-day line, and a couple (S&P 500, NYSE Composite) have nosed out to new highs.