Stephen Leeb has devised a simple, yet enormously profitable, stock-picking formula." - DAILY NEWS Stephen Leeb is a top performing money manager. - THE NEW YORK POST. For almost two decades technology has been the greatest wealthbuilder in history, with high-tech stocks like Microsoft creating millionaires seemingly overnight. But technological progress is slowing. This slowdown will intersect with other key worldwide trends to create new boom markets in nontech areas like energy services, food, and real estate—and only investors who know where to look will continue their bull market gains into 2000 and beyond! DEFYING THE MARKET provides research-driven techniques for uncovering the new winning stocks, along with strategies to hedge your portfolio against the uncertain new economy. Award-winning stock timer and financial writer Stephen Leeb and financial journalist Donna Leeb reveal 21st-century investment realities that all investors should heed, including: Companies positioned to soar in the next market wave; High-flying technology stocks whose best days are behind them; Specific stocks and stock groups to buy NOW—and those to avoid; 6 sample portfolios that will benefit any investor regardless of goals, risk tolerance, or available assets. Great investors are not, and have never been, crowd followers. Even as they build substantial portfolios in healthy markets, intuitive investors constantly watch for signs of change that are overlooked or ignored by mainstream investors. Discover for yourself how you can uncover and interpret these signs with uncanny accuracy! DEFYING THE MARKET will outline what today's slowing rate of technological advance means to you and—from high-flying stocks on the brink of meltdown to unassuming companies that are ready to take charge in a post-tech, inflationary world—show you where to put your money for continued growth and protection from risk.