How to use the tax-loss selling occurring now to pick up quality stocks on the cheap

It’s that time of year again: the annual tax-loss harvest. It’s happening across the brokerage firms right now, and it’s happening in size. Advisors are locking in losses to offset the big realized gains from earlier in the year, especially back in April when clients trimmed their winners and booked profits. We know from trading […]
Health care is trading at a big discount to the broader market. How to play it using options

The health care sector, as represented by the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) , has significantly underperformed the S & P 500 over the past several years, trailing by 58% from the pre-pandemic February 2020 highs through the beginning of this week. It has also underperformed by 23.7% since the recent “liberation day” […]