This morning of course, our last trading day of the year. Speaking of 2017, it has been a blowout year for technology. The nasdaq gaining roughly 30 the index on pace for its sixth straight positive year in a row, the fifth time since 1980. Bertha coombs is at the nasdaq and she has more for us. Bertha david, as mark twain put it, history doesnt repeat, but it often rhymes, and thats certainly true with the nasdaq 100. The big caps up for the ninth Straight Year in a row, the longest annual streak for the index since the big tech breakout of the 1990s. These four mega caps, you know them, apple, microsoft, amazon, theyve made the biggest impact in terms of the upside gains for the s p 500, overall market, and when you add in alphabet, they actually account for twothirds of the nasdaq 100s 15point gain this year microsoft benefiting from its shift to Cloud Technologies is up for the sixth Straight Year, thats its best straight winning streak since the launch of windows in the mid 90s, a