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Cabot Weekly Review: The Market’s Correction

February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cabot, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, Video

Today I have Cabot Market Letter and Cabot Top Ten Report Editor Michael Cintolo’s Cabot Weekly Review video. We’ve gotten a huge positive response from you and we appreciate all of your feedback!
Here’s this week’s video, featuring a discussion of the poor price and volume action of the market this week, including the performance of [...]

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Baidu now all alone????
FSA warning: thousands of names on share fraudster ‘master list’
Read more on Baidu.com, Financial Services at Wikinvest

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How to Handle the Stock Market’s Correction

February 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cabot, Economy, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stock Market

The biggest thing in the investment universe the past couple of weeks is that the U.S. markets (and most of the world markets) have fallen into a correction.  And I know the common question right now is:  What should I do?  Obviously, I can’t give personalized advice when writing this to so many of you, [...]

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The Next Big Thing

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stock Market

Back in 1965, Gordon Moore (then working at Fairchild Semiconductor, but soon to help found Intel) published an article called “Cramming More Components Into Integrated Circuits” in Electronics magazine.
Moore predicted that the number of transistors on computer chips would double about every 18 months.  Although he later amended the time scale for what would become [...]

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Sold Intel (INTC) Naked Puts
BULLS ON PARADE IN INTEL OPTIONS AHEAD OF REPORT
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Patriotism and Investing

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, China, Economy, Education, Emerging Markets, Exchange-traded funds, Growth Investing, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks

Like most citizens of the United States, I had always thought of the U.S. stock market as “The Market.” And I can remember the efforts we made at the big Boston investment house where I used to work to get people to allocate a small amount of money to non-U.S. equities, which mostly meant Europe [...]

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You Can Win by Not Losing (i.e., the Loss Curve)

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Market Timing, Stock Market

All of this brings me back to market timing, something every investor was focused on a year ago.  Good market timing helped Cabot Market Letter avoid most of the bear market.  But now, after the market has motored higher for months, few are concerned with market timing, and as I mentioned yesterday, that’s a mistake.
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