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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (7812)	6/28/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Dataminer1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Tom, Thanks for writing. Hope to see Mr. Ansay again at next years conference. It was quite a good time. We have been very busy at the website. We're upgrading everything in anticipation of the new version of the software. We're even adding a new user's group at stocksystem.net....shh...don't tell yet, it's not quite finished. With all the e-mails we receive privately from our users, we're hoping to start a community forum for those who may not be members of SI. We got a new user in Moscow, Russia yesterday, and one in Athens, Greece the other day. I'm sure they could use some pointers on implementing AIM and using the PCA system. To answer your question, the new PCA system is under current development in C++, and will be a self-installing Windows program. We are leaving the limitations of Excel and spreadsheets behind! We anticipate release between Labor Day and Columbus Day, maybe sooner if everything falls into place just right with our programmer. Every PCA user (and you of course)will get a free copy. You can get a sneak-peek at some of the preliminary screenshots at the site. I hope everything is going well in your recovery, and I know you can't wait for that first "fast lap" around the track. Did ya catch that "Who's this Tom Veale anyway..?" line in the Mailbag? I almost fell off my chair laughing ;) your Uncle is such a hoot! Glad to see that your and other's here AIM stocks are doing quite well. I still have a 12% profit in CHRZ while the B/H is a bit underwater. Still in the top of the first inning though.... I notice Confirmatory Analysis contains many of it's peers. My SUNW, which I have held free shares in now for a few years thanks to my learning experience in implementing AIM in real-life, had turned into a hold-till-retirement deal. Another split though, and I may go back to AIMing it. In my ongoing search for bean-stalk seeds, I came across a cutting edge sector that has some real gems in it. Fibre Channel. If you want to pan around for gold there, this site is a great start. fibrechannel.com Thanks for your great insights here, you really keep things going. Remember, I still have a day job! May your stocks plummet, and then go up 500% :) Best Wishes, D1

To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (7812)	6/28/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Dave Johnson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 18928

I have to say a few things about the selection of AIM stocks. I believe if you are going to invest and AVERAGE DOWN as AIM does, you better be DARN sure you are throwing money into a company that will be around for a long time. You better be very familiar with that company and not just follow it through some newsletter or somebody's hot tip. I tried doing some of this years ago and made the mistake of averaging down. The stocks I bot - Some small caps are now worthless- They never went back up. I think volatile Blue chips with products that you understand and use should be AIM good investments. When the company you buy goes down 60% you have the confidence that it will survive or else you will just panic out-likely at the bottom. AIM investors would have bot IBM at presplit $42 and now see it at $300+. The company had problems but had critical mass to re-invent itself. I think companies like ASANTI are not going to be around for long. I worked with them as a reseller of their products. This is absolutely a company I would not buy on the way down because they would likely not come back. I think AOL IS a blue chip company and will be around- I HOPE that it goes to $50 so I can really buy a lot because I am positive at some point they will do whatever it takes to whip Microsoft. and whoever else. And they are not going out of business. That just wouldn't happen. You could use Microsoft for AIM or Cisco or Sun. These companies have panic selloff s at times but will always be around! On the other hand I believe AIM should only be used for stocks and not Mutual funds. If funds go down you buy more and if they go up great- they should be buy and hold over the very long term. The portfolio manager is doing his darnedest to stop any downturns by using puts, hedging or selling the dogs. He is working against AIM in that sense and preventing any volatility from occuring. They are not volatile enough to really get much of an AIM return. Volatility + Blue (at least a Jr Blue) chip = AIM. My 2cents