Hi SF
1) Assuming you are retired, do you want to own stocks to replace the income from a job so you can play golf (or any other interest) or do you want to be involved in the stock market to replace your job and spend 8 hours a day watching it.
2)My thoughts below will be based on you not wanting to replace your job with sitting at a computer 8 hrs per day.
3) Decide what you want to OWN, not what you think is going to go up or down. most investing systems TRY to predict what is going to happen. AIM does not care, it REACTS to what has happened instead. Instead of having a 50-50 chance of being right, it is always right. You will NEVER have a realized loss (or at least it is very difficult )
The one risk with AIM is that a security goes to zero ..... so don't buy individual stocks ! use ETFs
4) if you were not using AIM you would not care how often you trade them, or the volatility, and you shouldn't care with AIM either. You want to own certain segments of the market or ultimately the whole market just broken up in to little pieces.
5) So decide how you want to diversify.... by style or industry....and buy those segments of the market that you think are the most promising first.
Toofuzzy
Take the road less traveled. It will make all the difference.
