>>>>. .If you just let an AIM do its thing without changing the settings you would NOT prevent being caught with your pants down in a "sharp curve". <<<
I let AIM react to the curves. It does a VERY good job.
If I change my settings because the market is flat for 6 months or a year that is the wrong thing for ME to do. The market is always changing and by the time I realize it has changed it will be too late. My new settings will be wrong. I would have been better off with the old settings.
The traditional AIM settings will easily handle a 50% drop in price, never sell out completely, trade on 5% changes in the same direction, and change focus with a 30% reversal in price movement. That handles most average trading conditions. Almost anything else is data mining.
I have no problem with someone using slightly different settings or rules (VORTEX etc), just that whatever settings they start with, they should stay with. While changing it due to a change in investment style might be appropriate, changing it due to market conditions negates the reason for using AIM in the first place. TO TAKE THE EMOTION OUT OF INVESTING.
If you keep changing the rules ,,,, well then .... you have no rules!
The only thing I seriously considered is combining AIM with a moving average cross-over (13 DMA vs 30 DMA) I suspect I would miss the smaller intermediate trades though.
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