New Stocks on the Block

Four years ago the hot stocks were in social, mobile, and cloud. [bold added]

Cramer's first theme is 'embrace the holy trinity,' meaning companies which are involved in social, mobile and the cloud. Cramer says Google (GOOG) and Salesforce.com (CRM) are two great stocks to own. For investors who follow revenue growth, Cramer says Workday (WDAY) and Cornerstone (CSOD) are also great names to own.

In 2018 the high-growth opportunities are in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cybersecurity.

Together's got to be better, right?

Artificial intelligence has benefited from advances in processing power and analysis that are opening myriad new ways to create products. Meanwhile, growing attention to cryptocurrencies has helped persuade a crop of highly skilled entrepreneurs to work on putting the underlying blockchain technology to various uses.

As for the third: “Cybersecurity should be a perennial anchor on the list,” [Venture capitalist Charles] Moldow says. “So long as there are black hats, there will need to be white hats.”

Cybersecurity being the exception, the average investor is probably not a direct consumer of artificial intelligence or blockchain. In all cases he or she almost certainly has no idea how the technology works.

Go ahead and take a flyer, but do it with your Las Vegas money, i.e., funds that you can afford to lose.