And the best time to invest is usually when people have abandoned all hope. The bad news is that we're in the grip of a nasty recession, at least in the tech world. In January, corporate executives virtually turned off the spigot on tech purchases. For a lot of companies, that's amounted to a forced march through the Mojave without water. I'm not trying to pick the market's bottom.
Few people can.
The stocks I'm suggesting aren't likely to zoom out of sight in the next few weeks. They may still drop in value. Most analysts I know expect an ugly March. With all those provisos, all the hemming and hawing that a columnist can muster, here are five local stocks that are worth thinking about as times improve. Don't rush out to buy without doing your own research.