A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board

[OldAIMGuy]

Hi Keith, The cash changes will work with the maintenance, but I think you'll have to use the ADD STOCK part of the TRADE window for the shares. In this case, you'll want to add X number of shares at the current NAV price rather than contaminate it with the actual 1500 shares of LEXR. Let's say LEXR was purchased for $10/share. That's $15,000 worth of new stock. Let's assume your current NAV is $20/share. So, you'd tell AIM through the ADD window that you bought 750 NAV shares at $20.

That will increase the PC value by the right amount for the additional shares.

Later when AIM says to sell something, say $1000 of NAV value, you can rebalance and sell $1000 of whatever has become too rich in the portfolio. That might be done at an NAV of $25, let's say. That trade of 40 NAV shares at $25 you would report using the regular TRADE window for an AIM Sell.

So, the second action was an AIM related one, the first one was a non-AIM addition to the account.

A third case would be like Mark H. suggested. Let's say your LEXR soars to 2 times your purchase price. However, it only represented 5% of your account to start. So it now represents 10%. You decide to rebalance. There's another stock in the account that had fallen from 5% of your portfolio to just 2.5%. Internally you can sell half of your LEXR and use the proceeds to add to your fallen angel position. Here you don't need to tell AIM anything about the transaction since it's internal. PC doesn't change and if you're lucky and can do both transactions for the same value, your cash doesn't change either.

See if that works,
Tom