Hi Allen, Re: Portfolio design and AIM......................
Those three things are what we think about when building the Equity Warehouse.
Time and time again I have to remind myself to pick the right things for the Warehouse. It's like a dating service. AIM has its own personality and it pays to find good partners for it.
As you've figured out, there are far more aggressive volatility capture methods than AIM. Mr. Lichello's model is much closer to Buy and Hold than Day Trading.
My stock selecting ideas in that one AIM-Users.com page are okay for one method of portfolio building. I also managed to build a portfolio of stocks that had good, slow growth and healthy dividends once upon a time. Using AIM to manage that one worked, too. However, the number of transactions was less.
As a general rule, AIM-High works pretty well with higher dividend payers that have low volatility. High growth stocks with little or no dividend are better managed with earlier versions of AIM with deeper pockets of cash for downturns.
It's interesting to watch your AIM mining operation as you go through these old posts!
