A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board

[Conrad]

Sorry for such a long reply, but I believe that all the calculations and manipulations you are thinking about "within" AIM are of no consequence or importance to his process -- he is only using it as a "Timing Device".

Thanks for the detailed outline of what Ocroft is actually doing for selection an optimum Investment candidate. Being sorry is not needed at all!

It certainly is interesting. . .It appears however a lot like TA to me . . .and one can set up various criteria to weed out the funds that do not meet his demands for performance. Without AIM one can spot a significant price reversal by any arbitrary means. . .and at the desirable recovery price Ocroft can invest the full $ 20000 he has allocated to his selected equity. I am puzzled why he needs AIM for this. . . .AIM would be one of several methods to do this. Is it clear why he uses AIM for this?

My remarks on the AIM internal mechanism(The Gear Box) . . .Post # 35670. . . were simple triggered by your discussion mentioning AIM's Residual Buys and that caused me to dive into “how these gears” worked to see the input-output relationship. . .I did not specifically think of Ocroft’s methodology. . . other than an obvious point in earlier posts was that somehow I understood from it that he decided to use AIM’s Zero Buy Point to invest his money. . .

I went beyond that and supposed that at the Price Dip the price would have been just short on triggering a Buy and at the reversal the price has to recover all the way from the Dip Price to a point so that a Min. Sell would be advised. In my minds eye I wondered if this would create enough profit. . .but I realise how that this is simply a Holding Zone issue and that the Sell Point would lie above the last buy price. The fact that a Buying opportunity at the Dip Prise was missed is a different issue, and can be dealt with by using other methods.