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In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo discusses the ongoing intermediate-term downtrend and how he’s handling it—but also relaying many of the positives.

In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo is seeing lots of encouraging action out there, though he’s waiting for the intermediate-term trend to turn up.

In this week’s video, Paul Goodwin takes a look at the market and discusses a few stocks that he keeps on his watch list.

Whatever your investing goals, Personal Finance is an essential guide for successful investing. It provides expert guidance on how to profit from stocks, bonds, ETFs and other investments. The goal of Personal Finance is to boil down the often conflicting, sometimes overwhelming amount of information on the economy and the...

With Early Advantage, the editor Nick Hodge reaches beyond energy to disruptive technologies, agriculture, electronics and more. And the early advantage doesn’t only apply to stocks. You’ll get Nick’s musings on productivity, taxes, food, leisure, and more. From chatting with startup CEOs in Silicon Valley... to meeting and working with...

Chloe Lutts Jensen, chief analyst of Cabot Dividend Investor was featured in Forbes’ Top Women Advisors, along with her top pick for 2018.

Booking partial profits on stocks that are on their way up is a sound investing strategy. But there’s an art to it. Here are my three rules.

The major indexes have traded lower this week—in fact, the S&P 500 is threatening to close lower all five days this week, which would be the first time it’s done that since before the November 2016 Presidential election. Even so, the losses have been modest, in the range of 1% or a bit more.

The market in general and growth stocks in particular hit a pothole during the past two days. That said, while it was a disappointing end to the week, the indexes haven’t done poorly—as we write this (late morning Friday), the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up 0.5% to 1.0% for the week.

There is no sugarcoating it: We are in the midst of a pretty nasty bear market, which unfortunately means we are going to be stopped out of our Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) position today.

Sellers have come out of the woodwork during the past couple of days, especially when it comes to the Nasdaq and leading growth stocks. The action isn’t overly concerning when you look at the general market, but when you look at individual stocks, the situation is a bit trickier.

This week was a constructive one, with the major indexes gaining and many leading stocks acting well. Coming after plenty of weak, sloppy action over the past month (including four down weeks in a row for the Nasdaq), it’s a positive sign.

It’s often hard for investors to rationalize, but bad economic news is sometimes “just what the doctor ordered” for the market. And that was the case last week as housing numbers again disappointed, consumer sentiment hit a record low, and perhaps for the first time in months, an inflation-related data point may have cooled off. What this means is it appears the economy is slowing down, which could allow the Federal Reserve to slow down the speed at which it raises interest rates.

Want to protect your profits in this unpredictable bear market? Try a collar option strategy. Here’s how it works.

The 80–20 rule tells me that picking growth stocks is not really that complicated, although you can make it complicated if you want to.

Insider selling has become an epidemic of late. Does that mean that market is about to implode? Not necessarily. There are many kinds of insider selling.

Even though investing is not a game or sport, there are several analogies that can be applied.

My own “Keep Calm” poster is intended to reassure you that the stock market’s world is not coming to an end.

One index that represents what’s happening with the market is the S&P 500.

In the long-lasting wake of 2008-2007’s credit crisis, financial collapse and resulting recession, risk aversion has become practically the national sport of U.S. investors. It’s no surprise; and investors can’t be blamed for being gun-shy. At an investing conference I attended last week, one speaker actually likened investors’ lingering post-crash...