Saturday, February 8, 2025
New Dividend Hunter subscribers often ask about my criteria for selling a stock. Most are looking for some percentage loss or gain on a stock as a trigger to sell. I stay away from any rules not based on the underlying fundamentals of each recommended investment. Here’s what I do instead… Over the years, I […]
The global energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward low carbon sources is well underway. In fact, investment in this transition is accelerating. In 2022, a little more than $1 trillion was plowed into new technologies such as renewable energy, energy storage, carbon capture and storage, electric vehicles, and more. Not only is this […]
Natural gas has been on the decline for several weeks and it has taken natural gas producers down with it. One producer, Antero Resources (AR), may be set for a rebound, according to the options market. A trader purchased 6,000 of what appear to be bullish call spreads in AR that expire in March. It […]
There’s a lot more chatter online about trading… Chatter I heard back in early 2021 when markets were going crazy with junk companies like Gamestop going parabolic. It’s easy to get sucked into this narrative again looking for “quick wins.” But I have a lesson to share with you today if you do plan to […]
I am not much for market watching. Over the years, I have learned that watching the minute-to-minute and day-to-day gyrations of the stock market is a colossal waste of my time. Attempting to execute short-term trades to squeeze profits from the psychological soup in the intraday stock market is usually a fool’s errand. I know […]
The global electric vehicle market is projected to grow from just $287 billion in 2021 to a massive $1.31 trillion in 2028, forecasts Sustainalytics, a leading independent ESG and corporate governance research and analytics firm. That nearly one-and-a-third trillion-dollar market is an opportunity few investors will want to miss. However, many investors looking to hitch […]
The 2022 bear market hit high-yield stocks (except for energy stocks) hard, and my subscribers sent me many questions about the status of their investments. One stock, in particular, moved relentlessly down, making investors wonder if the company’s big dividend was safe. Last week, the patience paid off, and investors who averaged down are back […]
Oil giant BP (BP) posted strong earnings last week, accompanied by a dividend hike and share buyback. The stock price jumped from $34 to over $38 in just two days. Judging by a block trade in BP options, the stock could remain elevated into March. A trader purchased 10,000 covered calls which collect about 1% […]
The markets are showing some signs of rolling over into a big move downward, but not soon. The tug-of-war between what the Federal Reserve says and what the market hopes the Fed will do continues to be front and center for equity prices. In other words, nothing much has changed since we last spoke. But […]
A lot of investors avoid Schedule K-1 reporting investments. These tax reporting documents can add significant extra work at tax filing time. On the flip side, K-1 investments typically pay tax-advantaged distributions. There exist a matched pair of stocks that lets us see how much the investing public values the simplicity of Forms 1099 over […]
