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[OldAIMGuy]

Hi Allen, Re: Trades with TLT over time............

Here's the trade history:

Date               Trade                    Order Size 
 10/11/2008       Initial buy at $94.73       ------ 
 11/25/2008             Sell at $103.91         7% 
 12/03/2008             Sell at $110.33         6% 
 12/14/2008             Sell at $115.93         5% 
 07/22/2009               Bot at $92.95        10% 
 09/19/2011             Sell at $114.75         5% 
 09/22/2011             Sell at $121.79         5% 
 05/31/2012             Sell at $128.42         5% 
 01/12/2015             Sell at $133.72         5% 
 06/28/2016             Sell at $138.98         5% 
 12/12/2016              Bot at $117.58         5%

The current cash level is showing 25% which is max'd out. I've fiddled between 5% min dollar trades and 10%. If it's been a really long time since the latest trade, I tend to shrink the minimum order to 5% just to get something proactive going as that brings the potential trade closer.

I believe in 2012 TLT was in tease mode relative to AIM's next buy signal. If I remember correctly I had a target price of just around $100. The price/share came very close but then would drift higher. Remember this is a history of my actual trades, not a simulation. So prices at the time of the trades were what the market offered, not what a spreadsheet requested.

Note that the trade size in percentage is pretty close, except for rounding. Hope this helps.

I have used Newport continuously since around 1993. I still have it running on an older XP laptop. That is the only thing for which I use that machine any more.