This month’s Trade by Numbers issue (from The Globe and Mail) features columns on investing in technology. Rob Carrick recommends ETFs like the QQQQ though he wonders if the sector is worth owning at all. Other columnists write about the train wreck that is World Heart, a cryptography software company called Certicom, a company that makes micro turbines and a technical analysis of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX).

Personally, I try to avoid technology as much as possible for two reasons:

  1. Technology is constantly changing and evolving at a furious pace. Ten years from now, I am fairly sure we will be drinking Budweisers, but I am not so sure we will still be using Google.
  2. I work in technology, so the vagaries of the sector already affect me. I don’t want compound the risk by investing in it.