Jack!, nice to hear from you!
It seems that we are in the middle of a summer rally right now. We'll see how long it will last. Hopefully, it will run for another few weeks.
This rally might be part of the "Go away in May & come back in September" phenomena. Sometimes September comes a bit early!
I expect all AIMers will have invested heavily in May when others went away. . .I wonder if that actually happened.
I feel a little said that I have not been investing since 2000 . . .it was such a Beautiful Dip the last couple of years. . . for good reasons though. . .I mean good reasons for not being in the market. . .not enough dough!
The Big Dip due to the recession has been an excellently opportunity to acquire lots of good shares at basement prices. . .I bet Donald Trump and Warren Buffet and many investors with lots of money have invested extra during this recession and after the prices have returned to triple their Dip Level the professionals will start unloading more and more stock at the prices rise more so that the public at large can start snapping up the high priced equities that are dumped. Then the stock market will be ready to dive again. . .the only uncertainty is the amplitude and the frequency of the Up/Down Moves. Good to hear that lots of AIMers keep earning money like water like you did. I wonder if there are any AIMers like me that have lost it all. . . their savings, their house, and more!
Due to having received some money in December from the motorcycle accident in 2007 I have now just more than € 5000 to spare, above starvation level but I have always advised people that one should have about €10000 so that he could afford to lose, in order to invest effectively. I would be a bad advisor to risk the little money I have now. Besides that, I have for about 8 years lived in the Valley of Poverty . . .unlike Martin Luther King I have not been on the top of the mountain, neither have I seen any glory. . . and the little extra now feels like as if I am rich. . .that’s worth something, I am not sure how much. . .but I want to keep feeling rich for a while longer. The meager pension I get. . .at welfare level . . .allows me to cover the basics comfortably, so this let me stretch out my Reserve for the opportunities that every now and then come along. . .it’s just like AIMing.
The sales of the Vortex software and booklet are at pocket money level. .every time I get an sale of say € 15 from the book it feels like finding a little gold nugget of about 1/2 a millimeter diameter. . it takes an hour to extract it from the creek and I spend € 3 for gasoline to drive it laughing all the way to the bank. . .where the "nugget" is duly weighted and tested, I then collect € 1,33 for the find and then the bank-people to start laughing me all the way out of the bank. . . Once in blue moon, a week ago it happened, a few "vortex nuggets" could actually be seen from 4 feet distance, but only if the sun shined on it, and I collect € 35. . and my 50% partner also collects € 35 and PayPal gets € 6. Then I got all exited and felt that "Rush Feeling" coming up and I went to load up my wagon with shovels and wood and a water pump and wanted to head for the hills out there, but then I realize that my wagon has no wheels. . . .darn!
Maybe I will go into AIMing Dollars using my Forex Turbovest Plan... the greenback must some day become worth something again. . .right?
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