Larry, I'm sorry for being a smart aleck in my reply. I agree, whether one's retired or not, AIM'ing or not, timing is still what it boils down to.
As a side note, one thing that I've been thinking about very recently, are ways to combine seasonal stock trading and AIM. I have read Jay Kaeppel's work on seasonal stock trading, and there seems to be some quantifiable data regarding stock market seasonality.