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The Model Portfolio is holding its own in this storm thus far, but we continue to pare back as needed given the selling wave.

Represented by the symbol “Li,” lithium is the lightest and least dense of the solid elements. Lithium production has been growing for decades thanks to its use in small batteries. Powering a car with electricity takes more than a few AAA cells, but it can be done. The idea is...

Jacob explains how insurance stocks’ behavior when a hurricane is approaching and after it has past is similar to how earnings or drug announcements can cause big moves in other stocks.

WHAT TO DO NOW: The story remains the same, with the primary evidence in good shape, though many leaders are extended and more are starting to wobble. Last Friday, we sold half of Elastic (ESTC), which got walloped on earnings, and today we’ll sell the rest, as the stock has continued to show weakness. That will leave us with 37% in cash, which is more than we’d prefer—we’ll hold on to it for the moment but could re-deploy some in the very near future.

WHAT TO DO NOW: The market has been doing fairly well of late, so much so that our Cabot Tides are on the verge of a green light. That said, individual stocks remain hit or miss at best; we had one gap up strongly yesterday, but today, Wolfspeed (WOLF) is disintegrating after earnings—we’re forced to sell our half-sized position today. Details below—and we’ll have far more in tonight’s regular update.

In this week’s video, Mike goes through an extensive list of leaders pushing to new highs and other stocks setting up to run.

Cabot received Best Financial-Advisory Newsletter Award for second consecutive year.

While there isn’t any substitute for the diet and exercise you promised yourself you’d do six weeks ago, there’s a stock diet that will allow you to make huge progress in your equity portfolio. It’s called the SNaC Diet, and it’s the best way to get your portfolio in shape, even if you can’t seem to make progress in the campaign against your love handles. SNaC stands for Story, Numbers and Chart, and it’s the method I use to pick growth stocks for the Cabot Emerging Markets Investor.

People and politicians are finally beginning to accept that the federal deficit has become an albatross around our neck.

I make my living writing advice about aggressive growth stocks in emerging markets, which is a fairly risky business. I don’t just mean that emerging market stocks are risky, although that’s true, too. No, even the writing part is risky. It’s not as risky as writing about penny stocks, bulletin board stocks and pink sheet stocks, but there’s enough risk to make things exciting. It’s entirely understandable that people who read my recommendations can get a little peeved when the stocks I write about go down. But one unexpected result of airing my opinions about growth stocks is that I sometimes get complaints from people even when stocks go up!

Chevron Chairman and CEO David O’Reilly spoke about the need for energy security and alternative energy at the recent Chief Executives’ Club of Boston meeting. So clearly, with even Big Oil conceding the pressing need for alternative energies to be in the mix, the future market for Green technologies is huge. How much does Chevron believe this? It’s now the largest non-public utility producer of geothermal energy in the world and is one of the largest installers of solar panels in the United States. Even Big Oil is going Green.

Even the best money managers suffer from the demon of poor performance, but that doesn’t mean they’re washed up. If you’re in a rut, take a step back and re-evaluate--but by no means should you lose your confidence. My sense is that too many investors are throwing in the towel here, so my advice is to keep your powder dry here and don’t focus on everything that’s going wrong. That way, when the time comes, you’ll be ready to buy, just when most investors have sworn off stocks for good.

It’s not often I get a question that actually leads me into two good lessons, but I got one last week that did just that. The specific answer to the question isn’t the major takeaway--but I want to use it as an example of why, in the stock market, you should go with evidence, instead of so-called “logic.”

Small caps have hit a valuation metric they haven’t touched since 2012. And that bodes well for a nice bounceback in 2019.

Two companies that fit Warren Buffett’s and Ben Graham’s stock selection criteria are American Express and UnitedHealth Group.

When it Comes to Investing, What is Market Timing? It’s More Important Short-Term Investors than Long-Term Investors, and Here’s Why.