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To: Jack Jagernauth who wrote (13329)	10/24/2000 3:22:31 PM
From: OldAIMGuy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Jack and Barry, I dropped Jack a note about an old DOS program called MyWay that was around back some time ago. It's a derivation of AIM that is set up so you can actually sell out of a position completely. I believe the company doesn't exist any more. The method involved having the Portfolio Control decrease with Sells. I know I'm opening a huge can of worms here, but well, you guys asked for it!! :-) Since I don't adhere to selling all the way out of a position unless I think the company is no longer the quality I want in my portfolio, I never did a lot of investigating of the MyWay program. Best regards, Tom

To: Jack Jagernauth who wrote (13329)	10/26/2000 7:57:53 PM
From: Jack Park	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hello Jack, I have often thought about this very problem. One idea that crops up occasionally is to tie the buy and sell safe values to something along the lines of a so-called 'stochastic' indicator in which you have a trading rule something like: if the stock gets way up into the overbought region, lower your sell-safe to delay buying back on the hunch that the stock will do a lot of selling soon. This implies something along the lines of a dynamic buy-sell bandwidth, something that we tend to leave 'by the book' or just tweak a little. My experiments with evolutionary tuning showed that those values can get tweaked quite a bit. Cheers, Jack