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Monthly Archives: August 2010

How Many Shares Should I Buy?

August 12, 2010
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Recently I talked about the difference between value investing and growth investing, and why it’s important to invest in a way that’s consistent with your investing personality. So, let’s suppose that you have done your introspection and you’ve figured out that you’re a growth investor (a good choice, at least from my point of view!).  This means that you’re prepared to buy stocks that are in strong uptrends and sell them quickly when they show signs of deteriorating performance. The Internet will be happy to introduce you to any one of a half dozen online brokers, all of whom...

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Five Problems and Five Good Things

August 11, 2010
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On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the U.S., to be replaced by Gerald Ford, who had replaced Spiro Agnew as Vice President after Agnew resigned amid criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering. Thus Ford became the only U.S. President who was elected neither President nor Vice President, while Nixon, who was (and remains) the only person to be elected twice to both offices, became (and remains) the only President to resign! But at least one of Nixon’s greatest achievements has born wonderful fruit.  When Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate, Nixon saw the...

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What is the Cabot Philosophy?

August 10, 2010
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I’ve been answering reader questions from our survey for the last couple of weeks and today I have one more to share with you. Question: What is the Cabot philosophy? Answer: I really liked this question and have been toying with how to answer it for a few weeks. I think it could have several different answers, so I’m not sure if I’m picking the “right” one, but to me, the Cabot investment philosophy is our growth investing rules that we’ve fine-tuned over the last 40 years and that are employed by our flagship newsletter, Cabot Market Letter (and...

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Stock Market Analysis Video: An Indecisive Week

August 9, 2010
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In this week’s stock market analysis video, Cabot China & Emerging Markets Editor Paul Goodwin says that it’s hard to argue with a week that has produced advances in the market, but that it’s also been an indecisive week as well with both good and bad news coming out. Stocks discussed include Affymax (AFFY), Kraton Performance Polymers (KRA), NetApp (NTAP) and Citrix Systems (CTXS). Click here to watch the video!

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An ETF that’s Starting to Lift Off

August 6, 2010
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An ETF that’s Starting to Lift Off

At this point in the overall bull market that began in March 2009, many stocks have made huge moves and have become rather obvious to the crowd.  These obvious names can still work, and in fact, it’s usually true that the best part of the major uptrend occurs in the last 20% of the move—so names that have already had big runs and are still strong could have more in store should the market’s nascent rally continue. An example here is Baidu (BIDU), which remains one of the top institutional-quality growth stocks in the market.  Growth at the firm...

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