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Double Your Money in Two Years with This "Hungry" Food Tech Stock

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My wife and I have taken on a new Friday night ritual.

And it just so happens to involve what promises to be a very lucrative trend for savvy tech investors.

Let me explain.

My wife and I have pretty demanding jobs, and we just doesn't have the energy to cook on Friday nights. So, for years, we'd usually order pizza to be delivered, occasionally switching things up with Chinese.

But a few months back, our mobile-centric daughters started talking up the joys of online ordering for food delivery. We decided to give it a try, and now we're hooked. One of the things we like most about this type of service is it gives us the ability to order from dozens of local restaurants.

And that's playing out in homes all over America as online and mobile orders shake up the U.S. restaurant industry – one currently valued at roughly $800 billion.

So, even a small portion of that massive market spells big profits for a firm that has the right kind of tech to hook hungry buyers as repeat clients.

With that in mind, today I'm going to show you a firm that is doing just that.

And I'll show you why its stock is set to double in less than two and a half years...

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This Tech Stock Will Double Again on a New Catalyst

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I just won a $10.5 billion bet.

Here's why. I first began telling my readers about a certain great company back in May 2013.

At the time, it seemed like no one on Wall Street liked this firm.

The reason: While it was a pioneer in desktop publishing, many analysts still thought of the firm as rooted in that seemingly archaic sector.

But I pounded the table and said the Silicon Valley leader's then-young move into cloud computing would richly reward investors.

That's why I was so glad to see that on May 21, nearly five years later, this company said it intends to buy back up to $8 billion of its own stock through 2021. And that's on top of the current $2.5 billion plan that ends later this year.

That's the $10.5 billion bet I won.

But really, it's you folks who are the true winners here.

If you took my recommendation back in May 2013, congratulations – you're up nearly 390%.

But this company isn't done.

Far from it.

In fact, another new catalyst for the stock just got put in place.

And that trigger sets this company up to double again in as little as 30 months...

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Not Even This One-Two Punch Can Knock Out Our Top Military Tech Play

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I've flown all over the world in all kinds of jetliners, and usually when the plane gets going, I tune out the safety presentation.

Been there, done that.

But on a recent Southwest Airlines flight from Money Map Press headquarters in Baltimore to Oakland International Airport, I listened carefully as the flight attendant described the plane's safety features.

And when I looked around, I noticed a lot more passengers than usual doing the exact same thing.

Just two days before, a woman died on a Dallas-bound Southwest flight after an engine failed and she was nearly sucked out of the cabin.

At a time like this, many investors might shy away from The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), which made the ill-fated 737 aircraft in question.

But today, I'm going to show you why that would be a big mistake...

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This Tech Stock Could Double Your Money in 11 Months

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We're coming up on the six-month anniversary of a chat we had about how a tiny number can yield big profits.

Back on Oct. 27, I noted that the roughly $3 trillion global information technology sector grew just 3.3% in last year's third quarter.

But I went on to say that if you find the right tech leader, then that aggressive company could grow earnings – and your stock profits – by a big multiple over that number.

I recommended to you a specific aggressive IT services company. In fact, I said that this profit powerhouse could double in price in as little as two years.

And already, it looks like my thesis was almost right on the nose.

This company has actually exceeded my forecast. Since that last report, the stock is already up 43%, beating the S&P 500's 5% return by eight-fold during the period.

So, I'm doubling down on that profit prediction.

To show you why, let's go through the five reasons this tech stock will double from here in less than a year...

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This Pool of Fresh Cash Will Send Tech Stocks Soaring (This Year)

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We're coming up on the fourth anniversary of a very important conversation we had regarding the direction of the markets.

Back in late June 2014, I wrote to tell you not to cash out of the market just because it had hit new highs. I quite clearly said I thought we were in the midst of a generational bull market – and the last thing you'd want to do is sit on the sidelines.

Well, what was true then is even truer now.

See, while the mainstream media has been blasting you with negative headlines about scandals and wars, I've been drilling down – looking into the details about what's really going on. And here's something very important I found.

Despite a 10% drop in the markets (a correction), all the volatility we've seen since then, rising interest rates, scandals surrounding Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., and worries about a possible trade war with China, first-quarter initial public offerings (IPOs) had their best performance since 2015.

That's just not something you hear much about amid the general doom and gloom. But it's crucial.

See, nothing keeps a bull market on a long-term uptrend better than fresh cash flowing in. And IPOs are Wall Street's best lure for attracting new money from investors.

With that in mind, let's look at why we need to look at these setbacks not as roadblocks - but as great buying opportunities...

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The "Tech Wreck" Could Mean Big Gains if You Use This Tool

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I've recently been thinking a lot about the day the stock market crashed in October 1987.

You know why…

On Oct. 19, 1987 – Black Monday – the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 22.6% of its value in a single day.

And ever since Jan. 26, we've seen the Dow drop 10%, regain half of that, and then drop and bounce back some again and again.

Back in 1987, I was a banking and technology analyst working in San Francisco's financial district. My boss called me from New York after the market closed on Black Monday to talk it over.

"This is huge," he told me. "It's ka-boom!"

I disagreed…

"Hey, this is great news," I said. "They're having a sale on Wall Street."

And that's how I am looking at the recent "tech wreck."

You should be, too.

No, this is not 1987. Far from it.

But the fact remains that big tech stocks – all the so-called FANGs – have dropped hard lately. They're down even further than the overall market.

I made a bundle on cheap stocks back in 1987 – and I want you to do the same with these priced-to-move stocks today.

However, you can't just head to your broker and put down some "Buy" orders.

You need a strategy – a plan of attack.

So I'm going to show you how to use my unique system to make your own bundle...

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This Isn't the End for the Tech Titans

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Tech stocks have led the market higher for years, and now they're dragging it down. But we are far from the end of tech's era.

What we've seen in the markets recently is an expected, albeit abrupt, interruption in a mega-trend that's going to continue for decades – maybe even forever.

We only have to look at the two hardest-hitting tech darlings to see what's happening right now.

Here's how far this will all go, and how to play this situation for all it's worth...

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How to Play 2018's First Big Tech IPO

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Dropbox will "price" its Initial Public Offering – IPO for short – on Thursday and begin trading Friday if all goes according to plan. Reports are that the offering is "oversubscribed" – a Wall Street-speak term meaning that they're hard to get – and that there's a lot of "demand" for shares.

So why is it you shouldn't touch 'em with a ten-foot pole?

Because Dropbox is going to be another company in a long line of "oversubscribed," "in-demand" public offerings that isn't worth the paper its stock certificates are printed on.

Yet.

Newly minted tech companies are a dime a dozen.

And they have no place in an investor's portfolio until after they've proven themselves with a quarter or two of numbers as a public company - here's why...

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This Tech Play Is Behind the Rebirth of American Steel (with or Without Trump's Tariffs)

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President Donald Trump just imposed 25% tariffs on steel imports and 10% import taxes on aluminum.

Those tariffs aren't ideal – and they could lead to a trade war if Trump's team isn't careful.

But the desperate hand-wringing we're seeing from the Washington and Wall Street crowds is, frankly, unseemly.

The Associated Press says that U.S. steel production is doing just fine, because the economy is now growing at roughly 3% a year.

Trade Partnership, a pro-trade business group, predicts that the tariffs will lead to 146,000 American job losses.

And Ira Shapiro, one of the architects of the North American Free Trade Agreement, told CNBC that President Trump "has done incredible damage to our relationship with Mexico, some to Canada and a lot to the European Union, all of which was not necessary and not desirable."

There's a problem here. All this nay-saying presents a simplistic – and I would say false – narrative.

According to MarketLine, steel will be an $865 billion global industry by 2020. And we here in the United States are missing out… almost entirely. Of the world's top 12 steel producers, only one is U.S.-based.

So if we do this the right way – if Trump's seemingly reckless plan gets everyone rushing to the negotiating table – domestic firms will clearly benefit.

That said, Trump's tariffs are far from a panacea.

The steel industry is a laggard in part because it hasn't kept up with the times. And so steelmakers and other metal firms must invest in the innovative digital tech that is transforming so many other industries.

I'm talking about a technology that unites hardware, software, sensors, robotic systems, and more so that steel factories can operate far more profitably.

Today, factory-floor automation technology is worth roughly $109 billion. MarketsandMarkets says that spending in the sector will swell to $153 billion by 2022.

The firm I want to show you today is transforming steel companies – and firms in other hidebound industries – into advanced tech players.

And it's minting cash for its shareholders along the way...

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The Skeptic's Guide to Tech Investing

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I believe in learning about investing early – really early.

When my daughter Jordan was in the sixth grade, I had her start trading paper shares and building an investment portfolio.

And for a few years, we talked just about every night around the dinner table about her stocks' performance – and the "whys" behind that performance… their financials and growth rates. We even pored over their charts.

We eventually fell out of that practice as Jordan pursued sports, music, and friends (and her smartphone).

But now, as she's pursued a degree in finance from the University of Portland, we've started our chats again. Not every night – but pretty often.

I couldn't be happier – or prouder.

Recently, in fact, I helped Jordan with her senior project – investing "$100,000" in a virtual portfolio.

Working together, we came up with a plan to turn that virtual portfolio into at least $1.6 million by the time she turns 61.

It was a good exercise for Jordan… and for me. I had to confront a skeptical audience – all daughters are skeptical of their fathers – and prove my thesis.

With that in mind, I'm going to do that again today – prove to you how and why the road to wealth is paved by tech.

And I'm going to show you a great way to get started on that road...