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Every week there’s bad new and good news. This week there is bad news about tensions with the Chinese and good news regarding a European Union stimulus and energy demand. Every week there’s bad news and good news about the virus. The spread of the virus is increasing but the market always seems to rally on some promising new treatment or vaccine that offsets the worry.

Cannabis stocks continue to get weighed down by the SAFE banking debacle. As you recall, late last year legislators failed to approve cannabis sector banking reform called the SAFE Banking Act that would have made it easier for banks to serve cannabis companies.

Tech has started off 2023 hotter than any year in the past 20, and this bear call spread is a play on that rally losing steam.

Nuance Communications (NUAN) has a healthy chart and great numbers.

The current bull market has lasted either 18 months (since Nov 2012) or 64 months (since March 2009).

The current bull market has lasted either 18 months (since November 2012) or 64 months (since March 2009), depending on how and what you measure. Either way, it’s getting long in the tooth—which means that somewhere ahead lies a correction or bear market.

Our readers are in our thoughts every day as we work to make our advisories readable and useful.

While every investor knows the terms bull market and bear market, every investor seems to have a different definition of each. Some people consider any period of rising prices a bull market. Others require that prices generally rise for a certain time--maybe six months--to be called a bull market. And of course there’s the popular (though highly flawed) view that any 20% move up in an index represents a new bull market, while a 20% decline constitutes a bear market. Adding complexity to these simple phrases is the cyclical versus secular debate. Simply put, a secular bull market is one that supposedly lasts many years or even decades.

Cloud software stocks have been among this year’s most profitable small and mid caps. Now that the sector has hit a snag, these three stocks are on sale.

A market correction is the perfect time to review some tried and true investing rules.

If you take time now and then to think about the long-term changes going on around you, you can put yourself in position to benefit from them financially, by making the right investments. The most successful investors are not only far-sighted; they are also courageous enough to buy and hold these stocks when they were flying high and more cautious investors warned, “That P/E ratio of 100 means the risk is way too high.” So today I’m going to mention 10 big trends I see developing, and suggest 10 investments that might benefit from these trends ... starting with global trends and narrowing focus from there.

Last Friday, I went to the grocery store around noon to buy something for lunch and ingredients for dinner. It was an utter madhouse: shopping carts and stacks of food blocked the aisles, and people were everywhere. It wasn’t until I got home that I realized why: the hurricane heading toward...

Stocks take the stairs on the way up and the elevator on the way down.

The importance of having a contigency plan for your stocks.

Has the market exhausted itself, or does this bull have further to run? That’s what I asked here last week, and I offered arguments for more upside from two of our contributors. If you missed the issue, you can read the whole article here. Many of our readers wrote back...

Today, I want to speak to a very specific group: those who have 10 years to go before you retire.

The big problem is that the market has been going up for so long that people forget that it can go down.

Two quotes that pertain to investing the most are: “It’s Hardest to Keep Things Simplest” and “Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication.”

Now is the time to remember to think and aim big. Truly big things are possible in the stock market. Remember that.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. That applies to the stories of companies as much as to tales of people. My advice? Know your sources, do your due diligence and don’t send either flames or glurge to your email contacts without confirming things for yourself, no matter how satisfying they are.