Nano Meets MLM and Discipline

Multi-level marketing schemes that invoke "nanotech" are surfacing and "forewarned is forearmed".

If a claim for a "new, nanotech" fuel additive, vitamin or shampoo seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Think of the dozens of large oil, cosmetic, health & auto companies that could profit from selling something like these companies are claiming they have in these HOT markets. How would they have missed such and "incredible opportunity"? They couldn't have.

We have nothing against MLM per se (multi-level marketing). It can be perfectly legitimate. However, the companies we've seen that are using "nano" in their product names or to describe features are doing so simply to market and sell their dubious products and are doing no one a favor. There is no "nano inside". No real nanotechnology. Stay away.

Now, "on Discipline"!

Look at how our discipline has paid off.

While others have been promoting nanotech stocks for years while the average small tech stock is DOWN DRAMATICALLY since early 2004 (use any Index you like . . . use Merrill Lynch's, use Punk Ziegle's or reconstruct a back-dated version of Newbridge's, Lux's or even The Nanotechnology.com Small Technology Index!), I have been steadfastly disciplined in my approach since 2001. I have been saying that mid-2006 would be the EARLIEST time to BEGIN investing in small tech stocks.

Yet, even today, people want continue to send "good money after bad" listening to and following poor investment advice.

Just being "disciplined" by a comment I made years ago doesn't count for anything. The true discipline is that which is created by my proprietary, technical, pattern-recognition methodology. That is what gave me the 2006 - 2009 dates and that is what allows me to remain disciplined. I know that it works and I know that I have a way to know when I'm wrong and FOR OTHERS TO KNOW AS WELL. All these are important for discipline.

What discipline do the other guys have?

We've (The Small Tech Prospector subscribers) made more money "short" stocks than "long" these last few months

I even wrote about this mid 2006 date (and what is coming next in the future), SPECIFICALLY, in my 2005 Nanotech Fortunes: Make Yours in the Boom! Winning Strategies.

The funny thing is . . . the people who are going to make the most money over the next 10 years in small and advanced technologies aren't the investors, aren't the traders, aren't the venture capitalists or angel investors . . . it's those accredited investors who team with professional investors coupled with scientific, technical and commercialization expertise to build winning investments for others.

My e-mail is darrell@nanotechnology.com if you would like to dialogue about that "alternative" idea.