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Strategies & Market Trends : A.I.M Users Group Bulletin Board
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To: mark collins who wrote (6890)2/23/1999 7:01:00 AM
From: Bernie Goldberg   of 18928
 
Hi,
You want to pick a fund that has a high beta. You should also set your buy safe at zero and your sell safe at ten.
If you are dealing with a discount broker, which you should be, they will have a list of funds that they offer which are no transaction fee and no load funds.
If you are not dealing with a discount broker make sure you buy a fund that is no load. Get a prospectus and check the annual expenses. The average expenses for a mutual fund are about 1.5%. Don't go with a fund whose expenses are much higher than that (preferrably lower).
Most financial magazines, Smart Money, Kiplinger's, Money, Forbes etc have annual lists of funds that will give you all the data you need.

Tom has some research that he has done from Forbes which has one of the best lists. It rates funds on
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