VORTEX AIMing

[Conrad]

Hi Toofuzzy,

<In 2003 and 2009 my account was cut in half even though I was diversified>

What a Bummer! This can indeed go wrong for the best ones!. . .Crashes are by nature unmanagealble. We see that during earth quakes and tsunamies. . . people expect te be helped but many fall between wall and ship and suffer.

In that sense a Crash of market prices of a stock going to zero is different than simply experiencing a Dip. I am very conservative with my own money now. . I can not affort to losse big amounts so I simply Play with small amounts now and then. . . small enough that I can affort to loose it.
For example I Aimed Antonov Transmissions. . . A Penny Stock and it recently was taken off the exchange. . .the value stood as € 130 (sic) . . The stock will remain hanging around and it might betaken back or it might vanish. . . Generally with my Vortex Investing in the past I did quite well. The thing that killed me fianacially was thrusting "friend". . In the end I was chaeate out of % 50000. .you mat have read my story on that. . I am reluctant to trust people again.

On the Penny Stocks I am AIMing a Demo Port Folio with 8 stocks left in it on the Dutch Local Exchabes. . .Antonov was in it but I have removed it from the Portfolio. Each stocj is AIMed seprately but they are lumped in "Mutual Fund" portfolio. The Aiming is done more or less as I would normally do except that I use the Turbo Method. . .put in extra cash when it is needed. Of course I know this is not typicalfor most AImers but I do it to score a point on a Mutial Fund Portfolio about which I know nothing about the details of the stocks other than that they are penny Stocks and can go Bust, like Antonov did.

The "Fund" has been running since Feb-16-2012 till now. I strated with Antonov and added 8 stocks over a short time and recently removes Antonov The Dmo Antonov was much bigger that the Real one I had The paremeters have been mostly constant at the firts choices:
Fund Yield ROTAC (bases on time average capital inlay)= 314 % yr.
Fund Yield ROTAI (base on time averaged equity Buys)= **** % Off the Chart . Perhaps I can find the % in the Fund Report:
From extracted data in the Reportthe ROTAI = 1373,15 % yr for the 20 month period.
Three Stocks have negative yiels of - 0,07/-14,4/-22,7 % Thr est hight positive Yields the rest 30,6/78,5/****/**** %. There were not enough digits allocated for these **** percentages.
Trading cost = € 7875
Interest earned = € 32406


Of course this is not realistic. . I use it as a tool to get a feel of the mechanisms but it shows also what we know generally already. . .a Mutual Fund with a wide base will not likely disappear. . unless you let a guy like Bernie Madoff run the show .

Anyhow: What is TLT ?

It is clear, you have had enough exprience to form a valid opinion on the ups and downd on AIM Investing, so have I. I have lost very few accounts and have spend enough time looking at the traps that there are but also at the methods that give good results. . it takes time to do what I do, and I am fundamentally a more agressive investor as you appear to be. . when I have money to play with that is.

The most important thing is Risk Avoidance and that does not mean avoiding high Yield Stocks. . .it means understanding the dangers and to avoid them.

Thanks for the feed back.