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jag

By the way, didn't Conrad mention that this 'New AIM' is very similar to Vortex?

Yes he did. If you ask me to explain Vortex though I would be hard pressed. Conrad should explain Vortex in layman terms! Then at least someone like me could understand it. #:>
He did run a test to compare the two and said they were quite similar. He also said we were both (as well as others) on the same track.

>I take it that the spreadsheet could be used for back testing various stocks.

Yes it can. Each time you want to test another issue copy the template to a new sheet. The best period to test is probably a years worth. set the buy and sell factors to the level that gives the best return for the whole period as well as the min % at cell C-1 . Experiment with these and this will give you a rough idea what the parameters should be set to. You could run the test for longer periods but the Factors might have to be set to some very low numbers to take in all the data.
The progressive method I spoke of has not been posted yet and might not be for a little while. Right now its the "DDCA PPTM " method without the progressive feature recomended at 20%.


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