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1608, 2023

When to Sell Stocks to Capture Profits and Avoid Losses: Introducing Stop Prices

By |August 16th, 2023|Categories: Market Timing|Tags: , , , |

When to sell stocks: a decision laden with complexity, suspense, and often, a hefty dose of emotion. Knowing when to bid farewell to a part of your portfolio can feel like navigating a maze without a map, filled with questions of timing, profit, loss, and market shifts.  The decision to let go is the crossroads where hope, fear, and pragmatism [...]

1508, 2023

The Metals Company Stock Pops After News of a $27m Capital Raise: Does it Justify Buying the Stock?

By |August 15th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

Word broke on Monday morning that the Metals Company (TMC) has been approved to raise gross proceeds of as little as $27 million or up to $38 million through a registered direct offering. The company specializes in deep-sea floor mining, pulling low-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules. And after struggling to retain its footing in the stock market [...]

1408, 2023

Can Stealthgas Inc. Continue Higher From Here?

By |August 14th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Stealthgas Inc. (GASS), is a Nasdaq-listed firm incorporated in 2004 with headquarters in Athens, Greece.  The company provides global seaborne transportation services to LPG producers and users, as well as ships natural gas and crude oil.  The company maintains a fleet of 36 LPG ships with a capacity of nearly 300,000 cubic meters. Revenues [...]

1408, 2023

U.S. Steel Gains 30% After Declining $7.3b Offer – Should You Buy X as Other Offers Are Considered?

By |August 14th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , |

Shares of U.S. Steel (X) have skyrocketed more than 30% so far in Monday morning’s trading session. The company just turned down a whopping $7.3 billion offer to acquire the company from Cleveland-Cliffs.  This deal would have had incredible implications for the steel industry as a whole - but for now, it’s business as usual for the country’s largest [...]

1308, 2023

Key Criteria to Consider Before Purchasing An ETF

By |August 13th, 2023|Categories: ETF, Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, VectorVest|Tags: |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Purchasing ETFs is more complex than purchasing mutual funds and individual stocks when you take into account their key attributes and the dizzying number of choices available.  With a universe of 3,159 ETFs, investors and traders struggling to select a few ETFs for their regular and retirement portfolios may be overwhelming as to determine [...]

1208, 2023

ETF Risks—The Basics

By |August 12th, 2023|Categories: ETF, Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, VectorVest|Tags: |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Risk is the name of the game in life as well as investing. No matter what you do there is an element of risk that things may not turn out the way you want. In the investment arena the common belief is that the riskier an investment the higher its reward. That is true [...]

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