A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board

[Toofuzzy]

Hi Tim:RE:403b

I get the impression that you can trade each stock (fund) at most 12 times a year. That is fine for AIMing. You would check each stock once a month to see what AIM signals. Depending on the volitility of the stock you will trade a lot less often than that (which is fine).

Trading only once a month on a set date gives AIM time to get you a BETTER price than at your min buy or sell signal.

You need to pick a starting PORTFOLIO CONTROL value:
1)current value
2)your cost (ave cost * #shares)
3)other????

I get the impression you have very little cash in the account.
If that is the case I would put all future contributions in to a MM fund till it is the size of the total CASH reserve required for all your stocks. Once it is that big the value can float up and down as your stocks require funds. If you have a large account this may take awhile. AS we are hopefully at the bottom of the market hopfully AIM will not require you to invest gobs of new funds (which you do not have) right off and you will have sales instead that will build up your cash reserve innitially.

Once your cash reserves gets to be where they are supposed to be (30-50%??)the new money you put in to the retirement account can then be used to start new AIM programs. TWINVEST and SYNCROVEST are good for an account where new money is added regularly.

Toofuzzy

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