This Week's Barron's Roundup

Editor's note: Welcome to Stockpickr's "Barron's Roundup." Each weekend, James Altucher presents Stockpickr portfolios related to articles in the latest issue of Barron's.

Cheap Tech for the Summer: Barron's homes in on the tech stocks with heavy cash flows that might foil any summer doldrums. They include Intel(INTC Quote) and eBay(EBAY Quote).

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Bridgewater Capital: Barron's interviews Ray Dalio, manager of one of the most successful hedge funds ever, on his outlook for the markets.

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Best Ideas from the Best Hedge Funds: The top hedge fund managers gathered at the Ira Sohn conference and gave their wackiest ideas, including Johnson & Johnson(JNJ Quote) and EMC(EMC Quote).

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Tech Oil: Whoever has the best technology for finding oil is going to win the next 50 years of the oil race. The story mentions Apache(APA Quote), as well as several other innovative oil companies.

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Barron's Insider Purchases: Each week, Barron's provides a rundown of the stocks that company insiders have been purchasing. We tell you which other Stockpickr portfolios include these stocks. The latest list includes Johnson Controls(JCI Quote)

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Research Reports: In every issue, Barron's publishes research reports on various companies. We provide a portfolio of those stocks with synopses of the reports. This week's list includes buys on Microsoft and Buffalo Wild Wings.

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Bullish and Bearish: The stocks profiled in individual stories in this week's Barron's. optionsXpress(OXPS Quote) and IBM(IBM Quote) were among the companise that received bullish coverage. Barron's was bearish on Syntax-Brillian and others.

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Barron's Activist Situations: Each week, Barron's picks out the most interesting situations where activist investors are clamoring for change. This week's list includes Biosite.

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Steakhouses might not taste so good: With steak prices soaring, these publicly traded steakhouses might suffer. Scroll to the right to see the "Hate List" on this portfolio.

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Options Corner: Stocks to Collar: By selling calls and buying puts you can collar stocks to limit downside. Barron's identifies the stocks with the highest degree of upside and the smallest downside in a potential collar.