These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich

Welcome to week 10 of my stock-picking throwdown with Mr. Market. Let's get right to the numbers:

Company	Starting Price	Recent Price	Total Return
Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM  )	$22.23	$14.71	(33.8%)
Harris & Harris	$6.22	$4.74	(23.8%)
IBM (NYSE: IBM  )	$129.05	$90.78	(29.7%)
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL  )	$22.75	$17.02	(25.2%)
Taiwan Semiconductor	$10.34	$7.74	(25.1%)
AVERAGE RETURN	--	--	(27.52%)
S&P 500 SPDR (AMEX: SPY  )	$126.73	$93.21	(26.45%)
DIFFERENCE	--	--	(1.07%)

Source: Yahoo! Finance as of Oct. 17.

Mr. Market still has me down like everyone else but, lately, I've been making up ground. And I continue to be optimistic; 15 years of Foolishness through good and bad markets will do that.

Good results will, too. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG  ) beat estimates in the most recent quarter, and Big Blue's results show that it's a stock market superhero. I've been a recent buyer of Big G and other tech issues because, like Foolish colleague Buck Hartzell, I believe now can be my finest hour as an investor.

That's how top investors generate superior returns -- like when David Gardner produced a decade of 20% returns by buying and holding the likes of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN  ) and eBay in the real-money Rule Breaker portfolio, or when Tom Gardner selected a "simpleton portfolio" to hold for a decade, with market-crushing results. I think these five tech stocks will produce plenty of durable gains.

This week's checkup
Now, let's move on to the rest of this week's update:

• Taiwan Semiconductor is low-priced and getting All-Star support in Motley Fool CAPS.
• Both Akamai and Taiwan Semi will report earnings on next week.

There's your checkup. See you back here on Friday for more tech stock talk.

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