Technology Stock: December 2011

Stock to Watch for 2012: Elephant Talk Communications (AMEX: ETAK)

POINT ROBERTS, December 27, 2011 - InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, issues an investor alert on tech stock Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (AMEX: ETAK). The stock is trading at $2.96, up 0.24 (8.82%) 12:40PM EST on over 500,000 shares.
Josh Levine of the MicroCap Newsletter (www.levinesmicrocapinvestor.com) says this is a stock to watch in 2012; poised to be a microcap stock of the decade.
"ETAK and its 100%-owned ValidSoft subsidiary are aligned with pivotal trends of the emerging transaction-based mobile cloud with market-ready solutions. Together, they are capable of scaling revenues to a billion dollars and more within four years" says Josh Levine.
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About Elephant Talk Communications

About ValidSoft
ValidSoft is a subsidiary of Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (AMEX: ETAK), (www.elephanttalk.com) and is a market leader in providing solutions to counter electronic fraud relating to card, the internet, and telephone channels. ValidSoft's solutions are at the cutting edge of the market and are used to verify the authenticity of both parties to a transaction (Mutual Authentication), and the integrity of the transaction itself (Transaction Verification) for the mass market, in a highly cost effective and secure manner, yet easy to use and intuitive. For more information, please visit (www.validsoft.com).
About Elephant Talk Communications
Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (AMEX: ETAK) is an international provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industry. The company enables both mobile carriers and virtual operators to offer a full suite of products, delivery platforms, support services, superior industry expertise and high quality customer service without substantial upfront investments from clients. Elephant Talk provides global telecommunication companies, mobile network operators, banks, supermarkets, consumer product companies, media firms, and other businesses a full suite of products and services that enables them to fully provide telecom services as part of their business offerings. The company offers various dynamic products that include remote health care, credit card fraud prevention, mobile internet ID security, multi-country discounted phone services, loyalty management services, and a whole range of other emerging customized mobile services. For more information, visit (www.elephanttalk.com).

Elephant Talk Communications "The MicroCap of the Decade" - Josh Levine

That's what analyst and editor Josh Levine of the MicroCap Investor (www.levinesmicrocapinvestor.com) called Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (ETAK.OB) in a recent update.
"When I go down my checklist of requirements for microcaps, Elephant Talk rates an "A" for each important item. But for all of the impressiveness of its technical capabilities, one characteristic that I find especially appealing is the sheer determination of its management to take on the very complex challenges of making it all work."
Josh explains that ETAK's technologies address a $150 billion global problem: It has the only real-time solution for the global credit and debit card fraud epidemic.
At the time of a transaction, whether it's in a store or at an ATM, its solution enables banks and credit card companies to make a decision about the transaction's legitimacy in less than a second. Amazingly, it's proved it makes the correct decision every single time!
The pivotal moment comes when the first global bank goes 'live' with a significant number, maybe 100,000 customers, and is prepared to continue scaling from there.

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How to Pick a Share to Trade > Buy & Sell Stocks - Learn to Trade

The stock market should present us with a wide variety of NEW hot stocks into 2011. Many of them are going to be new technology stocks that come from the nanotech, biotech, financial, energy, healthcare & communications sectors.

Most of them might seem promising, but the truth is that a good number of these trading & investing opportunities could be extremely risky, while others are simply not as good as they look. That's why it's very important to know how to choose among the best especially if you want to day trade them.

When you know how to pick and approach the best hot stock trading opportunities, you are able to generate a consistent and respectable amount of money in a very short period of time.

Experienced day traders recognize that trading hot stocks on momentum can be the fastest way to make money in the stock market, especially on uncertain times like these.

You don't necessarily have to trade momentum hot stocks all the time. But you can learn how to take advantage of them when you encounter the best opportunities for going long or for shorting them to make money when they are poised to fall down.

If You decide to day trade stocks just keep always in mind that for a trader to survive and be consistently profitable, its necessary to keep things as simple as possible. To much confusion and technical indicators will most of the time make you slow in your decisions and froze you up when a good opportunity is right in front of your screen.

In the end, stock market day trading is all about picking the best daily stock opportunities and following your buy and sell signals with ease and simplicity. Once you learn to master your trading decisions, you can aspire to produce consistent profitable results.

Hot Stock Tips > Stock Market Trading Strategies 2011 - Stock Picking Techniques

First Stocks, Then Real Estate—What's the Winner Going to Be This Decade?

I think it's probable that the stock market will continue to convulse for the rest of the third quarter and into the fourth. The trend in economic news is down and so is investor sentiment. We still have a lot of problems with sovereign debt issues in Europe and this is an investment risk that isn't going away anytime soon.

Right now, investor expectations are being dramatically reduced. The marketplace now expects little to no growth in gross domestic product (GDP) and investors aren't expecting much, if anything, from the stock market. I still expect both the third and fourth quarters to be very good in terms of corporate earnings, so my view is that the stock market will undertake a prolonged period of consolidation around current levels, with chances of rallying in the fourth quarter.

The old adage that investors should "sell in May and go away" perfectly illustrates a fitting strategy this year. If you pull up a chart on the S&P 500 Index, you'll see the market's substantial price appreciation from last September. Then in May, the market began to consolidate; slowly deteriorating until its recent move, breaking both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages.

The S&P 500 Index has actually been in a period of consolidation for the last 11 years. Pull up a long-term chart on the Index and you can see it plainly. What you will also notice is the current price action, which looks like a right shoulder formation from the head set in 2007. It's an ominous-looking pattern and, when looking at it, you can't escape the feeling that the trend is going to complete itself. If it does, it means the stock market could be in for a lot more pain. Over the last decade, 800 on the S&P 500 stands out as the bottom support point. Regardless, the buy-and-hold investment strategy has barely paid off over the last decade. Without dividends, investment returns would now be negative, as the S&P 500 is currently trading below its level in December of 2008.

Clearly, the best stock market advice would have been to buy technology stocks and Internet stocks in the 1990s. Then, the best subsequent investment strategy would have been to cash out of the stock market and buy real estate for most of the next decade. Now, it would seem, precious metals and agricultural commodities are experiencing the best price action from the global business cycle. First it was stocks, then it was real estate. Now the future belongs to commodities.

I think the commodity price cycle will keep running for a number of years and, in a period of slow economic growth, investors need to have significant exposure to this sector. The fundamentals haven't favored stocks for quite a long time. The real estate cycle was strong and highly profitable for those who got in and out at the right times. Now, all the debt in the world and money supply growth is creating a sustained period of higher inflation. Going forward, commodities and those assets that benefit from higher inflation will be the winners.

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Can a Technology Newsletter Guide You to Investment Profits?

Now that much of the world's financial structure and stock markets have pretty well imploded, many investors are looking for what sector to invest in for the highest potential reward and the least amount of risk.

For a number of reasons, I think that the technology sector will again rise to the top of the selection list for investment opportunity. Technology newsletters were pretty much thrown aside after the technology bubble burst almost a decade ago.

If you think about the current economic situation in the United States, what sector of the economy is more important and more interwoven into the fabric of almost everything else than technology?

Significant amounts of manufacturing have been moved to lower cost countries like China, financial services have shot themselves in the foot and will only re-emerge with even more complex regulations, and even agriculture is highly dependent on technology to maintain profitability.

So doesn't it make sense that people who specialize in investment newsletters and advisory services should seek to put together a team of specialists to offer a cutting edge offering for investors wanting to profit from the technology sector?

I have been highly involved in technology and information services for the past several decades and have always been either long or short certain stocks in the tech sector. But I have to rely on others to gather the necessary information before I decide to buy or sell a stock.

For instance, just because one software company makes the best tools in its field doesn't mean that management knows how to leverage that quality product into a profitable company. Likewise, just because a company has an inferior windows based operating system does not mean it will not become a fantastic investment.

Therefore, knowing that you want to invest in technology is not enough. You need specialized help to know which technology stock to buy and when to sell. In fact, knowing when to sell can be more important than knowing what to buy. It is this information that will make a technology stock newsletter worth the price you pay for it.

And nothing indicates that more than the previously mentioned bursting of the tech stock bubble at the beginning of the decade. Buying a stock at $10 per share and watching it go to $150 per share is fun, yes. But if you do not know when to sell and watch that stock plunge to $1 per share in short order, all the fun is gone; along with the profits.

The World of Stocks: Penny Stocks, Small Cap Stocks, Growth Stocks, Value Stocks and Technology Stocks

The stock market offers several kinds of stocks with one of the most popular being penny stocks. It is difficult to discuss all of the types of stocks in just one article, but we will address several including penny stocks and small caps as well as others.

The type of stock an investor invests in depends on their risk tolerance. Some investors prefer individual stocks, some prefer mutual funds. Some investors prefer Dow stocks. Penny stocks can be risky and each investor has to decide on their risk tolerance level.

Value stocks are a popular type of stock category for investors to screen. Value stocks are those stocks that trade at a low price relative to its fundamentals and considered undervalued by value investors. Some characteristics of a value stocks include a low price-to-book ratio, high dividend yield, and/or low price-to-earnings ratio. Fundamentals include dividends, earnings, revenue, balance sheet items and other. Benjamin Graham and David Dodd are credited with pioneering value investing. Value investing is one type of stock investing for those looking for bargain stocks and cheap stocks.

Penny stocks are common stocks that trade for less than $5.00 a share and are traded over the counter (OTC) through quotation services such as the OTCBB or the Pink Sheets. Penny stocks generally have market caps under $500M, trade under $5.00 per share and are considered speculative, particularly those that trade on low volumes over the counter. There are several stocks that trade on the NASDAQ and AMEX that trade under the $5 level as well. Other terms to describe a penny stock include nano caps, microcap stocks, and small caps. Investors considering penny stocks have to evaluate their risk tolerance. Many consider penny stocks risky and speculative.
Growth stocks are stocks that increase in value (earnings growth, market capitalization, price) and yield a high return on equity, known as ROE. To calculate ROE, divide the company’s net income by the company’s equity. During some years growth stocks do well, in other years value stocks perform better. Generally, for a stock to be in the growth stock category, analysts expect to see at least 15 percent return on equity.

Small cap stocks are known popularly as small caps. These stocks are a popular stock market segment for stock research by investors. Small cap stocks are stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Microcap stocks are stock of companies with a market capitalization of less than $250 million.
It is important to understand market capitalization. Most new investors look at the stock price, but the important number to look at is market cap. Market cap is a measurement of corporate or economic size. It is calculated by multiplying the number of shares outstanding times the share price of a public company.

Technology stocks are generally traded on the NASDAQ exchange, but can be traded on several other exchanges. There are several technology stock sectors including the Internet, Cable & Satellite, Computers & Chips and others.

How to Pick the Best Hot Stocks

The stock market should present you with a lot of hot stocks in 2007. Many of them are going to be new technology stocks that come from the nanotech, biotech, voip, healthcare, homeland defense or internet sectors.

Most of them will seem promising, but the truth is that a good number of these trading & investing opportunities could be extremely risky, while others are not as good as they seem. That's why it's very important to know how to choose among the best especially if you want to swing or day trade them.

When you know how to pick and approach the best hot stock trading opportuntites, you are able to generate a consistent and respectable amount of money in a very short period of time.

Experienced day traders recognize that trading hot stocks on momentum can be the fastest way to make money in the stock market.

You don't necessarily have to trade momentum hot stocks all the time. But you can learn how to take advantage of them when you encounter the best opportunities for going long or for shorting them to make money when they are poised to fall down.

Fortunatly some sites on the web can show you how to take advantage of hot stocks in a practical way every week by minimizing risks. One of those sites is MomentumStockPick.com

They focus on picking certain stocks with momentum that can generate excellent gains on the same day.

All in all, stock market trading is all about picking the best stock opportunities and following your buy and sell signals with ease and simplicity. Once you learn to master your trading decisions, you can aspire to produce consistent profitable results.

OTC Tech Stock Alert: (OTC:UYMG) Achieves year-end goal of $600,000 in Orders

East Hanover, N.J. - December 16, 2011 (Investorideas.com Newswire) - Unity Management Group, Inc. (OTC: UYMG) “UNITY” (or the “Company”), and its subsidiary, Metropolitan Computing Corporation (MCC) are pleased to announce finalizing the installations of all their major contracts by the year end. With the closing of these major installations UYMG is pleased to announce that it has met its goal of finalizing 600k in pending orders. These onsite installations include our AIM system, maintenance contracts, calibration, and system upgrades for Tablet presses, roller compacters and encapsulators. The addition of new sales reps will also allow UYMG to complete remaining pending orders in conjunction with additional sales of the P Z Uno Tablet Press.

MCC is also completing projects at Amgen, Novartis, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Pfizer, and Advanced Engineering.
Michael Oliver VP UYMG states, "We are very proud of our accomplishments in finalizing our pending orders. The expansion of the sales force helped us tremendously in obtaining our stated goals. We look forward to much improved revenues for 2012 particularly with additional sales of the P Z Uno Tablet press ". Unity now lists a virtual who's who in the Pharmaceutical Industry, and plans on adding new clients in the generic drug, and nutraceutical industry. Michael Oliver further states" There are a plethora of companies that have a need for our products and services therefore we plan on aggressively pursuing these companies with our expanded sales force in 2012 ".
About Unity Management Group, Inc. Unity Management Group, a health resource company, will continue to provide innovative physician practice management services that offer high value and significant return on investment for physicians practices and hospitals through its three subsidiary companies: United Healthcare Solutions Inc., Unity Technologies Inc., and United Business Services Inc.
The first subsidiary, Unity Business Services, is a full service management company offering solutions in practice management, billing, staffing, contracting, licensing, credentialing, and accounting. Unity Business Services also offers assistance in HIPAA compliance, marketing, and unique solutions for practice start-ups and new practices.
Unity Technologies Inc. is a complete software solutions company offering billing, electronic medical records, and electronic health records for physicians' offices and hospitals.
United Healthcare Solutions, a national company based in Nevada, is a healthcare company will be providing medical, vision and dental plans, as well as PPO and HMO networks.
For more information please go to our website which can be found at www.unitymanagementgroup.com www.mcc-online.com Text stock to: 313131 for our weekly newsletter
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Trading Alert For ETAK.OB, “The MicroCap of the Decade”, Following News of NYSE Amex Listing

POINT ROBERTS, December 1, 2011 - InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, issues an investor alert on Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (ETAK.OB) following news of the Company’s approval for trading on the NYSE Amex. The stock price immediately climbed on higher than normal trading volume.
Elephant Talk announced yesterday that it anticipates its common stock will begin trading on the exchange on December 5, 2011, under the symbol ETAK. After commencement of trading on NYSE Amex, the Company's common stock will no longer be traded on the OTC Bulletin Board.

About Elephant Talk Communications

Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (OTC.BB: ETAK) is an international provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industry. The company enables both mobile carriers and virtual operators to offer a full suite of products, delivery platforms, support services, superior industry expertise and high quality customer service without substantial upfront investments from clients. Elephant Talk provides global telecommunication companies, mobile network operators, banks, supermarkets, consumer product companies, media firms, and other businesses a full suite of products and services that enables them to fully provide telecom services as part of their business offerings. The company offers various dynamic products that include remote health care, credit card fraud prevention, mobile internet ID security, multi-country discounted phone services, loyalty management services, and a whole range of other emerging customized mobile services. For more information, visit (www.elephanttalk.com).

“The MicroCap of the Decade”

That’s what analyst and editor Josh Levine of the MicroCap Investor (www.levinesmicrocapinvestor.com) called Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (ETAK.OB) in a recent update. This stock is up more than 100% since his initial recommendation, but Josh is confident we’ve seen nothing yet.
Josh explains that ETAK’s technologies address a $150 billion global problem: It has the only real-time solution for the global credit and debit card fraud epidemic.
At the time of a transaction, whether it's in a store or at an ATM, its solution enables banks and credit card companies to make a decision about the transaction's legitimacy in less than a second. Amazingly, it’s proved it makes the correct decision every single time!
The pivotal moment comes when the first global bank goes ‘live’ with a significant number, maybe 100,000 customers, and is prepared to continue scaling from there.
Josh anticipates the transformational moment will occur in the current quarter -- and when it does, the fireworks will only just begin.

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Date: December 1, 2011
Securities Owned By Josh Levine:
Elephant Talk Communications (ETAK)
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