I have been testing Automatic Investor and it looks good to me. Is this the most used software for A.I.M. investors. I know their are others that work but it looks like this was developed just for the A.I.M. crowd.
Hi, Jim,
I've found AI to have a very robust feature set and Mark Hing as the author has certainly put a lot of time into it. He's also been responsive to bugs as well as adding new features or improvements as time's gone on. I suppose the graphics could be improved, everyone seems to have a fondness for the Newport graphs, but Mark's got to work with what's available to him in the development environment. The graphics supplied are functional and do give the relevant data. There's just a crispness that the Newport graphs have that make them visually efficient. Then again, Newport may not have the pie-chart breakdowns and other graphs that AI does.
As for the most widely used, AI is likely so amongst current software offerings. Newport, despite the antiquity does seem to have some holdouts. (Note Newport isn't available right now, so I'll spare you from asking where you can get it <grin>).
For working with AIM as an investment paradigm, Automatic Investor software does fill the bill admirably. Optimization, historical testing, wide variety of configurability allow you to "tune" your AIM programs just about any way you'd like to. From strictly by-the-book, to a model with all the latest variants turned on and running. Like the man says, "it's your investment, take control of it!"
I give it a thumbs up!
Best,
AIMster
