Hi Ray, I suddenly recall that, I believe, Syncrovest was an early version of Value Averaging. (See Michael Edleson's 1991 book for a more recent version of VA). I think Lichello got the idea for automatic trading in a way similar to Value Averaging and also making the trades a minimum size by requiring a minimum percentage change in value to make a trade and this is what Syncrovest was designed to do. He jazzed it up with Portfolio Control and Safe to make the modern version, AIM. And that has been improved by splitting Safe into buy and sell safe as well as Clive's LD-AIM and other variations out there.
However, neither Syncrovest nor AIM solved one problem, the starting trader with little cash on hand. He looked at dollar cost averaging and then double dollar cost averaging and then came up with Twinvest, which he called "The World's Method for the Small Investor," as a way to start out.
Of course my memory of all this could very well be very faulty.
Best,
Allen
