The Iconoclast Investor

You can say all you want that we’ve been in a secular bear market since 2000 … and you may be right.  But secular bear or not, that didn’t stop many big winners from lifting off from 2003-2007, including Apple, Google, First Solar, Crocs, Research in Motion, Coach, XM Satellite Radio, Intuitive Surgical, Potash, Mosaic, [...]

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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 [...]

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I bank at one of the larger banking institutions in this country and have kept my account there for a number of years. My loyalty has been tested lately, though, on more than one occasion. I won’t go into all the details, except to say that my latest encounter was the doubling of the interest [...]

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In 2002, the Investment Company Institute, the industry group for mutual fund companies, found that just about half (52.7 million or 49.5%) of all U.S. households owned stock in some way.  But just 21 million households (fewer than 20%) owned individual stocks outside their 401(k) plans and other mutual funds.
I know that much has changed [...]

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The steep market correction of the past week or so has dropped lots of stocks back to their 25-day moving averages and more than a few back to their 50-day moving averages and below.  So, since Cabot’s market timing indicators are still positive, this must be a great chance to pick up some real bargains [...]

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