A major benefit of AIM is it allows one to tune out all the "investment pornography" that filters in with the spam. Got two emails this morning, case in point:
One warned of "Dow 2,000?"
The other confidently said "Dow 10,000 in 2009!"
With AIM it doesn't matter. We just go with the flow, doing the contrarian backstroke, watching all the lemmings go by...