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Conrad

11/18/10 1:06 PM

#32934 RE: The Grabber #32931

Sorry for becoming a nit-picker :-)

The Topic if FIFO and FILO (or LiFO etc.)has come up various times here. I have also discussed it, and it in those discussions is became clear that for an particular equity the concept of FIFO and FILO simply can not apply. Any AIM Warehouse is like a swimming pool. . (as long as you do not buy shares and get the paper certificates!). The equity units are dumped in a pool and each lot becomes unidentifiable. All units are the same price. . .just like a bucket of water dumped in the ocean: molecules are not individually identifiable(unless future discoveries in quantum processes show that water molecules carry ID-tags).

All one can do is to look the first Trade size at portfolio set-up-time and consequently trade an identical number of units to sell off first or last, and then the SISO and SLISLO---->etc. will apply. . .unless of course you realise that the In-Out Schemes are Contrarien AIM Methods. The mains idea in AIM is to let the algorithm advise the trade size, and to deviate from it is CON-AIM.

Now, everybody here knows I am a proponent of deviating from the prime algorithm when ever I see fit to do that (and my advise to others is to do that too), so I am not all against SISO and SLISLO---->etc. in principle, if it is a profitable scheme.
My question is:

Is FIFO, SISO, TITO. . . . . or FILO, SISLO, TITLO. . .NINLO . .etc. actually advantageous?
What is the possible benefit of matching the quantity of a Sell to a quantity that was bought in a particular order?

That way the Sell Advice would simply be related to a Buy-Counter and the Buy-Quantity and the a price driven AIM Sell Advice would be superfluous.
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ocroft

11/18/10 1:31 PM

#32937 RE: The Grabber #32931

HI Grabber

"Can you clarify the 10.00 Sell Price and the term 'Stock's Virtual High"?
Because I only buy discounted quality stocks; I would do a virtual BTB 50-50 monthly plot from the stock highest price that i am interested in buying.
I will liquidate my position at or around that virtual price. Same as if I had bought at the 10.00 dollars chart price.I would have liquidated my positions at the 10.00 price.

Another line:
"The "upside" of Low-Down AIM is greater trading and diversification. The downside is that one can sell out of a holding that has begun a very long and profitable price appreciation".

I don't think that selling out(taking profits) is much of a downside on the hope of a very long and profitable price appreciation.
LD -AIM from what i see uses the compound effect. 20% compounded 4 times is a 100 % increase. 15% compounded 5 times is a 100 % . Profit extraction plus compound effect is just as powerful.

Just a Thought
ocroft