Six Month Report
  Here's the Six Month Report on how the PIC list is doing. I've presented the data for both Buy&Hold and AIM.
  Symbol   Price    Shares     Total      Buy&Hold     A.I.M.                               Cost      Gain/Loss  Gain/Loss ADCT      7.95   1,545.894   10,000      +22.9%      +14% ADPT      8.89     975.61    10,000      -13.3%      + 1% APCC     16.77     597.015   10,000      + 0.1%      + 6%   CCU      62.68     209.974   10,000      +31.6%      +18%   CGNX     29.82     522.876   10,000      +55.9%      +34%   CSC      43.50     307.22    10,000      +33.6%      +18% CSCO     19.47     535.117   10,000      + 4.2%      +12% ERICY     6.26    1111.111   10,000      -30.4%      - 6% INTC     28.50     290.909   10,000      -17.1%      -12% LEG      21.54     565.371   10,000      +21.8%      +13% MCRS     20.78     555.556   10,000      +15.4%      +16% SCH      18.32     662.252   10,000      +21.3%      +13% SUNW     16.36     650.618   10,000      + 6.4%      +13% TROW     36.32     275.103   10,000      - 0.1%      + 1% VOD      24.30     349.773   10,000      -15.0%      - 4% VOL      18.75     484.848   10,000      - 9.1%      - 5% ___________________________________________________________                    Totals: $160,000      + 8.0%      + 8.6%
  As you can see, neither AIM nor Buy & Hold have a clear  advantage in such a short time, overall. However AIM's Cash  Reserves helped it with the poor performers and held it  back a bit with the good performers. All in all 8% gain for  the Year To Date isn't too bad considering the year.
  The AIM account is currently showing a 35% Cash Reserve  with only 65% of the portfolio at risk. Simply put, it's  return on the amount of dollars at risk is quite a bit  higher than Buy & Hold (about 13% vs 8%). 
  Not added in is any interest on the cash or dividends on  the stocks (if any). This is a simple comparison and shows  how using the PIC list's "timing" of only buying when a  stock drops to a Timeliness of #5 can keep us from  suffering some severe downside while buying stocks of great  companies. It will also show over time that AIM can further  enhance gains while limiting risks.
  Please let me know if there's any questions. I'll be linking graphs to this site soon so you can see how AIM has managed  these stocks since coming to the PIC list.
  Best regards, Tom |