Replies to post #46142 on A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board (AIMUSERS)

[old_john]

Greetings karw. Thanks for taking the time to tell us how you manage your cash with AIM. I'm interested in your approach using AIM-zero with individual stocks. May I ask how you set up your virtual machine? Size, safe settings, min. buy/sell etc.

I have set up a couple of (virtual) engines using actual AIM price targets. But I have substituted the following cash amounts for the first 5 real purchases: 1500, 1750, 2000, 2250, 2500. Total planned purchases = 10,000 (50% of 20,000).

After (hopefully) 5 buys, I plan to switch to standard AIM and use V-wave as a guide from then on. Some might say that I am being overly cautious. At the end of day, we all have to be able to sleep at night with our decisions.

As Mr. Lichello put it so eloquently, so many years ago: "May you have all that you need, And all that you desire, And the wisdom to know the difference."

Old John

[Toofuzzy]

Karw

" Also the environment of individual shares is more dynamic, you sell a stock completely or buy a new stock. It is now maybe a good time to start an AIM-zero machine (a virtual machine with no stock, and the buys are real buys). Having cash at zero level in the machine makes management a bit easier for me. So that is why I calculate cost (what did I pay for the shares) and market(what can I get for the shares)."

If you have zero cash how do you buy anything ? If you start with zero shares how do you handle sales ?

Toofuzzy