You know, the more I read up on this sh*t the more it seems there's a different strategy for each day of the year. Nonetheless, as they say, knowledge is power, right?
Yes, true enough, but there is a difference between knowledge that you can actually act on then there is being overloaded with so much info you end up frozen, like a deer-in-the-headlights afraid to do anything at all. You can always find as many opinions as there are people to conceive them. You will find technicians and fundamentalists, and those who will simply pick a stock at random. In the end they all might do just as well - or not. The difference being that the first two of the three will likely charge you beaucoup bucks for the wisdom of their divinations.
It's all a crapshoot, really. The biggest decision is finding a plan and then sticking to it. AIM offers that plan. If you don't have the intestinal fortitude for AIM, particularly when it asks for more investment in what seems to be a losing position, it may not work for you. There are plenty of people who follow momentum based investing, using things like CAN-SLIM or Yahoo screeners or services like VectorVest to help ferret out potential winners, letting the profits run and cutting the losses short.
As long as you're willing to work with a system be it AIM or something else, give it some time and see how it plays out. Paper trade the system for a few months, if you'd like, before committing real dollars to see if it does work as advertised. If it does in paper it should be fairly close to the real world. Slippage, commissions, dividends, earned cash interest, etc. likely changing the results to some usually small extent.
Experience, I think will prove the far better teacher in the long run than reading endless tomes of 101 market theories and strategies.
Best,
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