It’s been three months since we first published our recommended portfolios in the inaugural issue of Smart Tech Investor, dated December 16, 2013. Below is a summary of those initial recommendations including our original advice and the difference in price between then and now: Investments Portfolio                  … Read More

It may be St. Patrick's Day, but you don't need the luck of the Irish to make money in the stock market; just a clear head and keen eye for which companies are moving towards that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - or in the case with tech stocks - inside the cloud.  Read More

Many people are talking about the “Cloud” – the ecosystem of servers and related technology that enables remote data processing and storage. What I don’t hear is why this represents such a significant shift in how tech companies are valued and how the economy will change as a result. I… Read More

Late last year a Silicon Valley newspaper did a piece on the resurgence of Symantec (NSDQ: SYMC). At that time its stock had been on a tear; since bottoming out below $14 in the summer of 2012 the stock climbed up the charts, peaking above $26 only one year later. … Read More

While Russia tries to bluff its way out of a bad hand, the rest of the world is watching which way the chips fall in China. Sooner or later everyone has to show their cards, and already we are beginning to see who is going to cash in and who will be pushed out of the game. Read More

Russia is back in the news this week, but for all the wrong reasons.  The rest of the world should not catch a cold when Russia sneezes, so this week's market weakness may provide an opportunity to pick up some of our current portfolio recommendations at good prices. Read More

A couple of major tech acquisitions this month made headlines; in our opinion, the market got them both wrong.  One will turn out to be the building blocks of a very successful business, while the other will become an anchor around the neck of its floundering founder.  That means there is opportunity to profit from both, and we'll tell you how to do that. Read More

The past month has witnessed several major price movements in our Equity Trades Portfolio, which is not entirely surprising since this portfolio contains those stocks that we believe are due for a quick and severe change in value.  To make it easier for you to follow, we have divided them… Read More

A fast four weeks has passed since the prior issue of Smart Tech Investor, which has included quarterly earnings reports from most of the major tech companies we follow.  And just as we thought, many of these reports have caught the market by surprise.  While most Wall Street pundits shrug… Read More

The period between the current long macroeconomic wave’s first and second halves has radically changed retail, and Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has leveraged the rise of the Internet very similarly to the way Dell did during the first half of the wave to dominate the retail space. When the major PC… Read More