I am a GARP or "Growth At a Reasonable Price" investor "who made a fortune in the market" and is now teaching others my techniques via my newsletter. Any changes to my portfolio or my thinking goes out to subscribers between issues via email so they are kept up to date. I ...more

I am a GARP or "Growth At a Reasonable Price" investor "who made a fortune in the market" and is now teaching others my techniques via my newsletter. Any changes to my portfolio or my thinking goes out to subscribers between issues via email so they are kept up to date. I currently write about investing on my blog 'Kirk's Market Thoughts", at facebook's Investing for the Long Term, Seeking Alpha and various other web sites and blogs on a less regular basis I wrote for 10 years at "Investing - Personal Finance" at Suite101.com. I Graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and computer science in 1979. I went straight to Hewlett Packard to work in the R&D lab of the Optical Communication Division (Now a division of Agilent) and and spent 20 years designing Optical Transceivers and leading design teams. I like both so I did both. I was not pleased with market timers and mutual funds that I owned that sold out at the bottom after the 1987 correction so I taught myself how to invest. I did well and made roughly 30% compounded between 1992 and 1998 in my personal account. After 20 years, I semi retired from HP and now work for myself while helping and teaching others. Even after the great Bear markets of 2000/2002 and 2007/2009, my personal portfolio is beating the S&P500 by a wide margin and ended 2010 at an all time high. This is a portfolio that funded my lifestyle for a decade while I built my online writing business. (It is very hard to give accurate return numbers since I now spend some of the gains my portfolio generates.) I am even prouder of my newsletter portfolio.less