Have you ever heard the term “buy and hodl”? No, that’s not a typo. “Hodl” is Bitcoin slang that means “hold through thick and thin” — from the early days when it was trading for a fraction of...

The flu virus sure is nasty this year. Many of us have friends, co-workers, family members, or acquaintances who have been laid up in recent days and weeks. But even as it seemed like everyone...

Yesterday, the Dow Industrials blew through 26,000. If it seems like it happened in a heartbeat, that’s because it nearly did! It took 109 days for the Dow to climb from 21,000 to 22,000 ... but...

Heading into the 2017 holiday shopping season, you couldn’t give retail stocks away. Investors were worried about weak same-store sales, underinvestment in e-commerce operations, and the loss of...

The breathtaking volatility in Bitcoin is garnering a lot of press these days, and for good reason. The headline-grabbing cryptocurrency is trading all over the map, and so are its lesser-known...

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is one of the American poet’s most well-known works, famous for its depiction of two roads diverging in a wood. What I’m most interested in today, though, is...

Maybe it’s just the time of year, what with holiday displays, music, and lights surrounding all of us. Or maybe Wall Street traders are dipping into the eggnog a little early. But whatever the...

My colleague Mike Larson just wrote about the Bitcoin Bonanza, and how the best-performing ETF in our database of more than 2,100 such products is a play on the cryptocurrency. But right below...

Too many investors beg and plead for a chance to get on board with winning stocks. Then when those stocks do take a breather, they get cold feet! Of course, soon afterwards, the stocks in question...

Two weeks ago, I wrote an issue whose thesis was simple: Big profit opportunities were there for the taking in retail stocks given better earnings reports and easy-to-beat, lowered expectations. ...