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To: budweeder who wrote (13857)	12/8/2000 1:25:40 PM
From: Bernie Goldberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Bud, It's not a variation at all. The answer to your question is in Chapter 13 starting on page 177. Mr. L specifically answers the question of what to do when you purchase a stock that drops like a stone. As a matter of fact if people would read Chapters 13 and 14 they would find the answers as to how handle most of the variations that are tried. If most guys are like me, they can read faster than they can type. It doesn't take very long to read f47 pages. Hope this helps. Bernie %8^D

To: budweeder who wrote (13857)	12/8/2000 4:26:28 PM
From: OldAIMGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Bud, We talked about this a bit at the AIM meeting last spring. I think you have to decide if the money invested has fallen into a category of "deteriorating", "dead" or "dormant!" :-) As AIMers we can stand a dormant period if it's not ridiculously long because we know we'll get paid back. The other two portfolio illnesses require surgery - emergency or otherwise. No use owning horseshoe factories any more no matter what price we can buy the shares. This gets back to a "macro economics" discussion a while ago. At the same time, one has to design one's portfolio to suit their own lifestyle and time of life. AIM can be used with income stocks as easily as with growth stocks. But there will be a difference in activity level, most likely. I still believe that if one will devote 5 minutes per month per equity to their AIM portfolios they will garner 90+% of what AIM can do for them. Most newbies suffer because they try to out-smart AIM. "The stock's rising, so I'll hold off on selling even though AIM says I should." BOOM!!! "The stock's falling, so I'll hold off on buying even though AIM says I should." BANG!!! If we were that smart, we wouldn't need AIM!!! Best regards, Tom