I. Conservative Recommendation

MasterCard Inc. (MA) is a familiar name to all U.S. consumers through its brands that include MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus. A holding in Alpha Algorithm, Mastercard is also favored by 11 top investment strategies.

Mastercard is steadily investing in technology to expand its market share all around the world. The electronic payments trend has it positioned for decades of market-beating growth to come. The company recently recorded 18% revenue growth and 24% earnings per share (EPS) growth. That’s a remarkable rate of growth for a company with a market cap of $163 billion.

Mastercard stock also has the wind at its back and scores 100% on all technical indicators I follow.

II. Aggressive Recommendation

Amazon.com (AMZN) is currently a holding in Alpha Algorithm.

This is the time of the year when Amazon traditionally gets more love from investors. The online retail giant is expected to account for a whopping 25% of all online sales in the U.S. during the holiday season. Throw in Amazon’s fast-growing cloud services business, and you have a company that has generated much larger profit margins than its retail side ever did.

Amazon scores 100% on all my short-, medium- and long-term technical indicators I follow.

Sincerely,

Nicholas A. Vardy

Nicholas Vardy

Nicholas Vardy has a unique background that has proven his knack for making money in different markets around the world. He was the Editor of The Global Guru, a free weekly e-newsletter, and also edited the trading services Momentum Trader Alert, which focused on making short-term profits in the hottest markets in the world, and The Alpha Algorithm, which was designed specifically to deliver big, fast triple-digit winners, month after month. He was also the editor of Smart Money Masters, a monthly service focused on longer term investments recommended by the brightest minds in the business. Mr. Vardy has been a regular commentator on CNN International and the Fox Business Network. He has also published articles in The New Republic, The World and I, and The Baker & McKenzie Legal Review. The Global Guru/Nicholas Vardy has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Fox Business News, CBS MarketWatch, Yahoo! Finance, and MSN Money Central. Mr. Vardy graduated from Stanford with a B.A. — with honors and distinction — in both Economics and History, and he also earned an M.A in Modern European Intellectual History. After winning a Fulbright Scholarship, he earned a J.D. degree at Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. When not uncovering investment opportunities for his subscribers and investors, Mr. Vardy is a keep-fit enthusiast and an avid student of classical music.  

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