Hi TF, Please remember that in my own case, the items that I've developed for Bull markets were used during the Bull market. My portfolio would have significantly UNDER-PERFORMED what I actually accomplished from Jan. 1988 through March of 2000. Don't be too quick to judge.
That under-performance might never be compensated by the purchasing done during the BEAR market. That's a bit hard to guess. Much depends upon the next bull market.
Please remember that AIM is the Strategy and these other things are Tactics. One has to apply the Strategy and use it consistently. Making tactical decisions as to various adjustments, what types of equities to own and other things have more to do with Stage of Life than with AIM.
AIM all by itself is a plan which will work to some degree with essentially any form of equity. If we load up with the latest BUZZ from the gurus of Wall Street AIM will do its best. If we load up on Electric Utilities, AIM will still do its best. If we shrink AIM's minimum order to peanuts, AIM will react exactly to this change. If we shrink, expand, skew SAFE, AIM will react exactly to this change, too. AIM's ready to do exactly what we ask of it. It's our employee and works both in the Sales and Purchasing Dept. We set the rules, with our eyes wide open.
Please understand that if my account had doubled every 7.5 years instead of every 5 years, I probably wouldn't have had as much total cash on hand as I did when the bubble started to deflate. My guess is that if I'd used AIM strictly in accordance to the book's original rules and traded only once per month the growth would have slowed by at least that much. I had my reasons for extending my risk, and I was rewarded handsomely for it. I expect to be again handsomely rewarded for my patience.
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