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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Can We Balance the Budget?

November 16, 2010
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Can We Balance the Budget?

First the Greeks rioted after their government imposed austerity measures designed to help the country climb out of its deep financial hole. Then the French rioted over President Sarkozy’s plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. (He succeeded last week.) Then the English rioted over their government’s plan to triple college tuitions as part of a multi-faceted effort to stop the country’s financial hemorrhaging. But here in the U.S. … we haven’t had any serious unrest yet, and the reason is not because Americans are better behaved. It’s because our government hasn’t really done anything to...

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Cabots Favorite Investing Books

November 15, 2010
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Cabot’s founder, Carlton Lutts, was known to say about reading books,  “All I’m looking for is one good idea.” We get a lot of requests asking about which investing books are best, so today I’m going to share the Cabot editors’ favorites. Recommended by Michael Cintolo, editor of Cabot Market Letter and Cabot Top Ten Weekly: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre If you consider yourself a student of the market, there is no better book than Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.  This conversational biography of the exploits of Jesse Livermore contains more market lessons than any...

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Cabot Chart School: The Basics

November 12, 2010
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This week we’re bringing you a special video from Cabot Market Letter Editor Michael Cintolo called Cabot Chart School. In the video, Mike explains basic chart reading techniques and clues to watch for. He explains the significance of the 50-day moving average, volatility and volume. We’ll be back next week with the Cabot Weekly Review. Click here to watch the video!

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Cloud Computing Again?

November 12, 2010
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For my stock pick today, I’m going with an old favorite that looked like it was toast a few weeks ago … but now shares have begun to round out nicely and could (emphasis on could) be near the start of a new upleg. I’m talking about Salesforce.com (CRM), which is a blue-chip play in the cloud computing space. Actually, the company is more “the next Oracle” in that it continues to deliver innovative software products to its thousands of corporate customers. And, of course, all of its products are delivered on-demand, so there’s no need to install or...

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What Not to Worry About

November 11, 2010
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What Not to Worry About

I want to spend some time today writing about four things that don’t matter when deciding which stocks to buy, which ones to sell and when to sell them.  I’ve touched on some of these topics before, but have gotten a flood of questions recently and figured now’s a good time to clear some things up.  Here we go … INSIDER SELLING: When most people hear about insider selling, they immediately think the worst.  Specifically, most young growth stocks have oodles of insider selling, and so the question arises, “If the top brass is selling X million shares, why...

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