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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4073)	2/7/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: OldAIMGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Linda, On PIXR: This type of stock isn't a steady grower like a company with product and inventory. It's more classic boom-bust. Great for AIM, but only if you have a FAT cash reserve. I'd advise not to tinker with the Sell Resistance. AIM's plenty greedy enough without our added enthusiasm!! Remember, a fat cash reserve earning 5% during the "Bust" phase of their cycle will make for smiles, too. Best regards, Tom

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4073)	2/7/1998 9:57:00 PM
From: Steve Nelson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Linda, I got a fill of BOBJY at 13.25. I placed a limit order 12/7 to sell at 12.50 ob. On Friday BOBJY opened at 13.00. It must have taken a while to fill all the accumulated orders so mine didn't get filled until the price hit 13.25, lucky me. I use Schwab Web Trading. SteveN

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4073)	2/9/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Bruce A. Bowman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Th BOBJY trade was with Schwab. I've gotten some good fills there, but this was exceptional. It filled at 9:33 ET. Sounds like a little more patience with PIXR will be well rewarded. Also, I spent an hour today downloading weekly data for about 25 symbols using the MS site that Bernie mentioned. Worked very well. I don't know what I'd done to screw up the settings when I tried it a few days ago, but I was able to get as much as 5 years of weekly data today without a problem. So now I'm flogging the data with Bill's spreadsheet to see how trading these now-bargains (well... sorta bargains) would have done over the last couple years. It's very quick to do now that everything is in a compatible data format. I had wanted to show a friend how well he'd have done with AIM vs. b/h on Intel. Oops! b/h did better on INTC over the last year! :-) Of course, you had to deal with some pretty big drawdowns which were significantly less with AIM. I've now got Bill's s/s modified to account for interest on cash and for commissions, plus I added a comparison for b/h. I might take a shot at automating the standard trades (buy/sell SAFEs) so that you can just drop in the data and see how plain vanilla AIM would have traded. These are all the easy ones, though. The challenge will be to incorporate Idiot Wave info and see what can be done to adjust cash reserve. All in all it was a fun Sunday. Better go set the new limit orders before tomorrow. Bruce