Peter Lynch once said that sometimes the best stock to buy is the one you already have. That’s certainly what it looks like for me. Over the last few months, my portfolio along with the entire sectors I’ve been investing in have taken a beating. Nearly everything in it is really undervalued [...]

I’ve been interested in the Vancouver-based startup D-Wave for over a year now. They make quantum computers. And, unlike any other company in the world, they’ve actually made working ones. This week they’re demoing a pattern recognition test that’s very difficult for traditional computers– scanning pictures and quickly identifying which ones are [...]

It hasn’t even been that long since the last time the sky fell, and once again the market is taking some dips. Over the past five days, with the S&P 500 down by 3.4%, the Nasdaq down by 6.2% and the Xinhua China 25 Index down by 11.4%, several of my holdings have taken [...]

Harris & Harris (Nasdaq: TINY) is a publicly traded venture capital firm. Normally, I would prefer to invest directly in individual companies, rather than a venture capital firm, but this case is special. From everything I’ve been reading, I’m convinced that nano-technology is on the verge of profitability on many fronts. There [...]

I’m still waiting on a bonus I expected at work, so I haven’t been able to do as much investing as I had planned. I have been able to set aside enough to make a purchase, though. I picked up 130 more shares of Shanda (盛大).
Earlier I said I’d had my eye on [...]