Stocks to Buy: I Found a Billion-Dollar Market in My Backyard

Michael A. Robinson

The end-of-year holiday season is a time for memories and reflection, and I found myself engaging in a little of both the other day.

I was alone at the house and was stringing up some Christmas lights and found myself drifting back in time… to middle school and high school.

In seventh grade, I got my first part-time job – changing lightbulbs at an apartment complex. I also began designing and building custom light boxes using colored bulbs controlled with staggered timing switches.

In my freshman year in high school – for my electronics class – I put together a pretty sophisticated strobe light from a nice kit. That was my introduction to capacitors, diodes, and wiring diagrams.

There was a reason for this mental road trip.

You see, the lights that I was stringing up around the perimeter of my house the other day happen to use a very specialized technology.

And this specialized technology is something that I knew you'd want to hear about because it represents a massive profit opportunity.

Today I'm going to tell you all about the technology. And I'm going to show you one of the best stocks to buy to make money from it.

Home Improvement

Of course, I'm talking about LEDs, which stands for "light-emitting diodes."

As a veteran analyst out here in Silicon Valley, I know that this technology is state of the art. And as a consumer and lifelong electronics nut, I can honestly say this lighting is the most beautiful I've ever used. At our house this holiday season, LED lighting graces the family Christmas tree inside the house – and our Japanese maple tree out in the yard.

As I stood in our backyard, admiring my handiwork on a moonless night, I finally realized that this lighting technology is every bit as beautiful as it is efficient.

This is truly one of those rare instances where aesthetics and investing go hand in hand…

See, the low-heat glow given off by LED lighting will serve as the catalyst that helps this technology sweep the nation and become a billion-dollar-plus business by the end of this decade.

And it all started with the simple lightbulb…

Michael A. Robinson

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Michael A. Robinson is a 35-year Silicon Valley veteran and one of the top technology financial analysts working today. He regularly delivers winning trade recommendations to the Members of his monthly tech investing newsletter, Nova-X Report, and small-cap tech service, Radical Technology Profits. In the past two years alone, his subscribers have seen over 100 double- and triple-digit gains from his recommendations.

As a consultant, senior adviser, and board member for Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Michael enjoys privileged access to pioneering CEOs and high-profile industry insiders. In fact, he was one of five people involved in early meetings for the $160 billion "cloud" computing phenomenon. And he was there as Lee Iacocca and Roger Smith, the CEOs of Chrysler and GM, led the robotics revolution that saved the U.S. automotive industry.

In addition to being a regular guest and panelist on CNBC and Fox Business Network, Michael is also a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and reporter. His first book, "Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings" warned people about the coming financial collapse - years before "bailout" became a household word.

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