Hi Tom, Yeah, Ford, and a lot of others as well, don't have all that much volatility to make them good positions for AIM.
What I have noticed, overall, that lower price positions tend to have better volatility, but, as always, there are ones like Ford that are cheap but you don't get much trading with them.
Currently I'm playing with doubling the actual share trade size compared to the 5% in the spreadsheet. This seems to create more trades but since you have to fake out the spreadsheet buy/sell prices I'm not sure as I've only tried a couple of positions so far.
Then there are the 2x ETFs such as MVV and 3x ETFs such as TQQQ which seem to be better overall. Personally the 3xs frighten me in this market as it seems to waffle up and down in a fairly narrow range. IJR has been doing quite well for me with a 42% annual rate. I know that won't keep up but it has been a nice ride since I started it a couple of months back. It is also one of the very few SPDRs that has returns since its inception that is better than the index it follows. 1 Year 3 year 5 year 10 year Since Inception
iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF IJR 22.42% 9.28% 15.44% 8.38% 10.10% 5/22/2000
S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index 21.79% 8.37% 15.44% 7.59% 9.92% 9/25/2000
The next one I'm checking out is: 1 Year 3 year 5 year 10 year Since Inception
SPDR® S&P® 600 Small Cap Value ETF SLYV 21.76% 8.21% 15.23% 8.01% 11.55% 9/25/2000
S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index 21.79% 8.37% 15.44% 7.59% 9.92% 9/25/2000
Anyway, I keep digging.
Best,
Allen
