Replies to post #9143 on A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board (AIMUSERS)

[lostcowboy]

Hi Jibes, I think you have been reading my mind. I think I will just sit back and let you make the spreadsheet too. LOL

But seriously I have been thinking along similar lines, I just have not gotten the coding bug yet. What do you base your progressive factor on?

[Toofuzzy]

Hi Jibes: Very interesting

Am I correct that you would be buying an increasing amount (more than AIM BTB) as the stock went down? If that is the case you would run out of cash even faster than AIM BTB. Are you buying less than AIM BTB with the first buy to conserve cash? And of course the reverse selling more as it moves up. Is it possible to run out of shares to sell?

Did you make at least one typo ("Sell" instead of "Buy" or "Buy" instead of "Sell")?

Toofuzzy

[lifo]

Hello Jibes,

You seem to have some very interesting ideas. I downloaded the DDCA spreadsheet...I take it that the spreadsheet could be used for backtesting various stocks. By the way, didn't Conrad mention that this 'New AIM' is very similar to Vortex?

Thanks,
Jack

[Conrad]

Jibes,

I have trouble understanding the essence of this Progressive factor. Can you put it in more precise mathematical form(the objective) and give an example of it with a portfolio?

Strangely enough when I explain things with mathematics hordes of people have no idea what I am doing. An equation appears to scare the hell out of them.

I seem the have this sort of problem if a mathematical idea is explained non mathematically.

If you give the math you have so far maybe I can make something out of it in the way you like it. . .relating a factor to the portfolio values, as I understand it.

I like the challenge of solving such problems. Maybe your AIM to keep the cash as long as possible. With the Vortex program I to want to get rid of the cash in a delayed manner but then quickly exhaust the cash to zero at the limit of the trading range(Like X-DEV I think). For this I invented an Exponential Disbursement Factor...None, slow, . . .KABOOM. All the cash gone in two steps.