The buy - Sell cycles of technological investment are nothing new.  Money have been made, money have been lost. 

 

There are no investor who has not lost money, bar one who does not invest.  The difference between a successful investor and unsuccessful investor has to do with being right more than being wrong. 

 

With Wall Street full of conflicts of interests and careers made out of PR (public relations) instead of track record, few analysts' investment recommendations are worth the paper they are written on.  It is little surprising that after reading many of the analyst reports, I am left with a sense that I get more substantive investment information about the industries from daily tabloids and cnn.com. 

There are a few bright spots.  In technology sector, Fred Hickey, the publisher of Fred Hickey's High Tech Strategist newsletter, a monthly investor newsletter available by subscription. 

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Below is a list of articles, interviews with Fred Hickey that give you an idea of how independent analysts' opinions differ from institutional analyst opinions.  This is not to say that every independent investment analyst is as competent in covering the relevant markets as Fred Hickey's coverage of the technology industry in his High Tech Strategist investment newsletter.  The point I want to get across is rather that you have to be very careful with institutional analysts' coverage.  They carry the prestige of being associated with powerful investment institutions however this does not translate into quality.

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