Hi Conrad
While I see some issues with Ocroft's method they are not as bad as you suggest.
1) He identifies a stock he wants
2) He pretends he buys it and pretends he buys more on each AIM directed buy
3) When it moves up in to the hold zone (after a directed buy) or the actual first sell (I forget which) he then institutes an AIM directed buy
So it would be like a stock dropping from 100 to 50 in one month and doing the buy instead of having a lot of little buys along the way.
Of course you might miss some AIM sells along the way, but I think if you would have gotten a sell that would have been a buy point for him.
4) If a stock reverses and goes back down, you wait again to purchase more till it goes up.
5) You wait to sell anything till it goes down from a high instead of selling along the way.
Like I said, it might not be perfect, and I may not like it, but it is not as bad as you think.
Toofuzzy
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