{"id":41851,"date":"2018-02-20T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=41851"},"modified":"2018-02-20T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:23:47","slug":"technology-stocks-go-crazy-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=41851","title":{"rendered":"Technology stocks go crazy, as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today I&#8217;m sitting in our regular local investment meeting. It&#8217;s exciting to hear how technology is creating opportunities in retail,\u00a0real estate, art (as in collecting paintings) and car parking, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To highlight, try this. I&#8217;m eyeing the market today. Dow is down half a per cent. But Nasdaq is up 0.35%. Hot today are our favorites:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SQ, AMZN, NFLX, BABA, GOOGL, AAPL, CRM, and of course, NVDA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The most wonderful presentation, ever.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TonySeba-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TonySeba-2.jpg\" alt=\"TonySeba\" width=\"522\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TonySeba-2.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TonySeba-2-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a>This presentation will improve your investing more than any other presentation you&#8217;ve ever seen. Trust me on this one. Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2b3ttqYDwF0\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TonySeba-2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Buy more Nvidia (NVDA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>99% of us are clueless making a presentation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We drone on and on. Our PowerPoint slides are boring. Worse, they confuse the audience. Should they pay attention to you or your slides? Your audience is confused, and bored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When did you last take a course on public speaking? When did you last go to Toastmasters?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How to give a killer presentation. From the <em>Harvard Business Review.<\/em> Click <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/06\/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>One good idea. Yuch.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If I can&#8217;t sell Staples short, how about Office Depot? Sadly, someone had the same idea &#8212; long before me. It&#8217;s hard to sell short. It&#8217;s all a matter of timing. Too dangerous for me, at present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OfficeDepot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OfficeDepot.jpg\" alt=\"OfficeDepot\" width=\"549\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OfficeDepot.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/OfficeDepot-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>It&#8217;s been snowing all night.<\/strong><\/span> So my morning goes like this;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:00 I made a snowman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:10 A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn&#8217;t make a snow woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:15 So, I made a snow woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:17 The nanny of the neighbors complained about the snow woman&#8217;s voluptuous chest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:20 The gay couple living nearby grumbled that it could have been two snowmen instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:25 The vegans at No. 12 complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:28 I am being called a racist because the snow couple is white.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:31 The Muslim gent across the road wants the snow woman to wear a headscarf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:40 Someone calls the cops who show up to see what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:42 I am told that the broomstick of the snowman needs to be removed because it could be used as a deadly weapon. Things get worse after I mutter : &#8220;Yeah, if it&#8217;s up yours&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:45 Local TV news crew shows up after I&#8217;m arrested for &#8220;threatening&#8221; the police. Reporter asks if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I reply, &#8220;Snowballs&#8221; and am thereafter referred to a sexist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">8:52 My phone is seized and thoroughly checked while I am being blindfolded and flown to the police station in a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">9:00 I&#8217;m on the news as a suspected terrorist bent on stirring up trouble during this difficult weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">9:10 I am asked if I have any accomplices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">9:29 A Jihadist group claimed it was their plot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Moral to the Story: There is no moral to this story. It&#8217;s just the America we live in today!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Favorite recent New Yorker cartoons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SecurityConcerns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SecurityConcerns.jpg\" alt=\"SecurityConcerns\" width=\"522\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SecurityConcerns.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SecurityConcerns-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RobinHood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RobinHood.jpg\" alt=\"RobinHood\" width=\"522\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RobinHood.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RobinHood-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NoQuestionsAsked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NoQuestionsAsked.jpg\" alt=\"NoQuestionsAsked\" width=\"522\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NoQuestionsAsked.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NoQuestionsAsked-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\" alt=\"HarryNewton\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarry Newton, who is in New York City for a week. Right now it&#8217;s 68 degrees. In California&#8217;s Coachella Valley desert, where I came from last Saturday, it&#8217;s 37. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n  ga('create', 'UA-45200733-1', 'technologyinvestor.com');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m sitting in our regular local investment meeting. It&#8217;s exciting to hear how technology is creating opportunities in retail,\u00a0real estate, art (as in collecting paintings) and car parking, among others. To highlight, try this. I&#8217;m eyeing the market today. Dow is down half a per cent. But Nasdaq is up 0.35%. 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