Advanced Automatic Investor

[jackpark]

Conrad!
If you're still around here, sorry for the nearly one year delay in responding. Talk about lagging the market!

My optimization technique is one from the class of software patterns called evolutionary programming. That's where you mimic what we think we know about how biological evolution works, by tricks like splicing genes and performing random mutations at various points along the gene. In my case, the gene is a list of "coefficients" used as multipliers in small routines which do things to AIM parameters. The idea is to "breed" a population of AIM parameters and run them in simulation, taking the winners and "breeding" them (combining their genes).

It has been several years since I did that work and all I really remember from watching it run was the giggles as the overall performance of the winning individuals in the population actually began to rise.

More later if there remains interest. My thinking is to make the Java project an open source one, meaning others can join in on coding, testing, owning, whatever.

Cheers
Jack