I've been intrigued with AIM for sometime, but the reality seems to fall short of Lichello's prose. I've been using the evaluation version of AI recently and find it very difficult to select stocks and parameters that beat B&H. If it's hard in hindsight it seems impossible to do looking forward.
I'm also curious as to why the subject of risk is never addressed. Conventionally risk is measured by the standard deviation - thus not hard to do with a spreadsheet.
It seems to me that AIM requires risky stocks, then tempers the risk by being partly in cash - but the final risk is never evaluated. I could accept a return approximating that of B&H if the risk was less than the B&H risk.
I also agree with Nitelord that this is an uncommonly friendly and intelligent board, I just wish I had more confidence in AIM. I really feel that there is value in using different investment methods as a form of diversification. X_Dev has caught my attention, especially since it relies more on visual input when optimizing parameters.