Hey, What the Heck is Going On? - Part II

So, I was going to move on to something else for a few days, but then I read fellow-blogger, Steve Edwards' 2/20/06 post and I had to say a few words about the continuing revolution on Nanotechnology.com and our coming INDEX (oi vey, not another index!! but don't stop reading . . . there can be a few good indices - but ONLY ONE "bogey" or standard against which money managers are judged and performance is gauged, and ours is IT) AND the small tech stock forums and discussion groups that are arriving any day now.

First issue of my stock e-ALERT, The Small Tech Prospector??? Got your trading fingers ready? - it will come out next week. About 775 of you have signed up for it and I'll decide at a later date when to cut off new subscribers. I won't let too many subs get in the way of performance in these relatively illiquid stocks.

Stock discussion forums will start really soon at Nanotechnology.com and will be free access for a couple months. NO ONE will want to discuss the markets in our 81 publicly small tech stocks ANYWHERE else, once they visit our boards. I will have 4 nanoscientists of from a variety of scientific disciplines roaming the forums to correct and answer science and technical questions. Within 3 months, the forums will be limited to Silver and Gold Members and the scientists; that's it. I'm tired of seeing the know-nothings and promoters on the other sites pushing their idiocy. We'll do our best to call "b_" when we see it . . . in a kinder gentler way . . perhaps . . . not!

Talking about our 81 stocks . . . Have you noticed the change of the stocks on the home page of our site? Many are gone; new ones have arrived. Gold Members will soon have access to scientific, technical and competitive landscape commentary on most of them, AND on the 30 in our new index our scientists will be updating their comments EVERY 4 MONTHS!

Look for the Index in a week or so - The Nanotechnology.com Small Technology Index - Seven nanoscientists and I ruminated, argued (collegially, of course) and fine-tuned this list over the last 30 months. We have the stocks. We the allocation model. We have the calculation. WE HAVE THE RATIONAL REASONS WHY this will be the smartest, most useful, scariest (yes, scary . . . hedgefund managers and professional traders DON'T LIKE TO HAVE TO BEAT "SMART" INDICES . . .AND OURS IS VERY SMART) index out there.

In addition, ours is the FIRST "small tech" - NOT limited, tiny niche (pun intended) nanotech index . . They (even Steve will admit this I think, as his Index, while the best, is more an exercise in the arena, not a serious index - - he knows his 14 are most of what's out there . . . why call it an INDEX?) are an index of nothing because there are barely 20 publicly-traded, truly nanotech companies in the world! We include MEMs, microfluidics, and the cutting edge of microelectronics as well as nanotechnology. But more on this later . . .