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After two standout years for stocks, can 2025 bring more of the same? We’ll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, staying in the market is the smart move for most investors.

The strong economy and stock market of the last two years is approaching a possible inflection point. It’s a good time to pay attention but never a good time to overreact.

Current Market Outlook


The market had put together a few small positive steps heading into last week, but after a solid G20-induced rally on Monday, it’s been all selling, all the time—the intermediate-term trend has rejoined the longer-term trend in bearish territory, with some indexes (including the S&P 500 today) hitting new correction lows. Because of that, we’re moving our Market Monitor back down a notch to a level 4 and advise remaining in a defensive stance. That said, it’s not all bad news; we’re seeing more stocks that are resisting the market’s pull (forming significantly higher lows), and many indexes are still being defended at their October/November lows. Bottom line, it’s best to take things day-by-day and go with the evidence—which, today, means holding plenty of cash.

This week’s list, though, is a good place to start building a watch list if you’ve yet to do so, as many of these stocks look like they want to move higher if the market gets going. Our Top Pick is MongoDB (MDB), a stock that actually nosed to new highs after earnings before pulling back in.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
Guardant Health (GH)	88.34	42-44.5	36.5-38
Kirkland Lake Gold (KL)	51.30	22-23.5	20-21
LHC Group (LHCG)	103.10	97.5-100	89-91
MongoDB (MDB)	156.56	80-84	70-72.5
Okta, Inc. (OKTA)	148.41	61-64.5	54-56
RH Inc. (RH)	252.93	132-138	119-123
Shopify (SHOP)	585.00	143-150	130-134
Spirit Airlines (SAVE)	57.03	57.5-60.5	52-53.5
Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA)	31.04	26-28	22.5-23.5
Zscaler (ZS)	126.22	38.5-41	33.5-35.5

Leading stocks have been breaking out to new highs and recently begun uptrends are looking more and more sustainable, indicating that the worst is most likely behind us.

Mike Cintolo discusses two simple portfolio management techniques investors can use during a market decline.

In 2011, I see an oil Goldilocks rally—not too soft, not too firm, just right.

How to determine which publication is best suited for your investing style.

It’s not 1999 out there, but the market and individual stocks continue to repair the damage from the past few months. Today, we’re going to add a half-sized stake in Enphase Energy (ENPH), leaving us with around 70% in cash.

Treace Medical (TMCI) delivered a Q3 beat after the bell yesterday with revenue of $33.1 million (+53%) beating estimates by $3.03 million and EPS of -$0.22 beating by $0.07.

The market is pulling in today, though given the rally last week, the action among the indexes is still normal. On the market timing front, the Cabot Tides green light is still in effect, though our Cabot Trend Lines remain bearish, as does our Aggression Index. The Two-Second Indicator did record “only” 35 new lows on Friday, so we’ll see if that continues.

As good as markets are at rational discounting in the face of a crisis, they are definitely not good at handling two crises at once. So on top of the Greek debt crisis, when the Chinese stock market began to implode last week the result was extreme.

The best value stocks can be easy to find if you follow this simple strategy. Here are 10 undervalued gems that satisfy my criteria.

Investing in Small-Cap Stocks is one of the best ways to make huge returns-- if you can handle the risk.

The expiration of our December covered calls is today, and I’m happy to report that four positions (GM, PINS, YETI, CGC) are closing for max profits

The market was hit hard again today as investors continued to discount a protracted trade war between China and the U.S., with fears of slowing growth bringing out the sellers.

Stocks opened higher today on the backs of some good earnings reports, but the sellers have again come out of the woodwork and driven growth stocks lower. Looking at the primary evidence, our Cabot Tides remain negative, our Cabot Trend Lines could turn negative tonight depending on how the market closes and most important, stocks and the major indexes have been unable to mount much of a bounce in recent days. It’s best to stay defensive and we are sell the rest of one of our positions.

This is an unscheduled interim update to give you some guidelines to deal with the current strength of marijuana stocks.