Replies to post #86 on Systematic Investing Group (SIG)

[labestul]

Hi Conrad,

I am originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and while I spent a good part of my early life there, I also spent many formative years in Geneva (Swiss), Chicago, and Tokyo. More recently I lived and worked in Osaka, Seoul. Sao Paulo, and New York. I recently moved back to Canada and am living in Toronto.

My basic thinking has been significantly influenced by The Money Spinner. By that I mean the following:

AIM (and any related systems such as The Money Spinner or Vortex AIM) could be described either as a "Risk Management System" or as a "Volatility Capture System". It is in fact both but I tend to think of it primarily as the latter because this is the aspect that was emphasized in the Money Spinner. It seems that those who first read Lichello think of the system primarily as the former. Both sides are equally correct. It is merely a matter personal style I think.

I originally used the Money Spinner but never really trusted it because I did not understand it. Oh, I understood the mechanics well enough but not the underlying system. For this reason among others I stopped investing for a while.

When I began again I started with the Money Spinner but in an attempt to understand it I "reverse engineered" it to produce an alternative formulation of the money spinner. I then followed this reformulated system. It was shortly after this that I discovered Lichello's AIM which turned out to be almost identical to my reformulation of the Money Spinner. For this reason I claim that the Money Spinner is basically 99% AIM. The main difference is the minimum buy and sell intervals.

Best Regards,

Barry