To: THE FOX who wrote (4626 ) 5/1/1998 7:53:00 AM From: OldAIMGuy Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18928
Hi GMB, There's plenty of palaver here on the AIM BB and I'm glad you are getting some value out of it!! I use it for "therapy" mostly!!! If nobody has insulted me recently, I can always count on SoCal to chime in! Bernie always keeps me on my toes when dancing the Lichello Ballet. Bruce is trying to turn the Ballet into a line dance. JF does his AIM thing quietly, but very effectively. Linda manages to make money on every stock except the ones that I've made money with! GW Riedeman, the creator of that Excel template for AIM, sits up there in the Pacific NW and counts his money bags when not out skiing or playing with his newest computers. Jim Battaglia has raised Mutual fund selection to a fine art and uses AIM as his guide for most of his taxable investing. Jeff Weber doesn't visit here very often, but his site keeps him pretty busy sifting for things that sparkle and panning for gold in the river bottoms of Wall Street. All in all, we're a noisy and growing bunch that have a common business plan, and therefore lots to learn from each other. What's really interesting is that, like most threads, there's a large group who are in the "read only" mode. They correspond mostly by email. Judging by Bob Norman's inquiries at Newport Programs, there's plenty of readers. Jim H. just wrote to me and told me how he's using Bruce B's ideas of "nuggets" to screen for stocks. Paul M. from Germany has been writing to me about getting started with AIM. Ron E. in Florida is getting up to speed. Mak in Tokyo is working over his own spreadsheet while trying to make sense of the Nikkei and the NYSE. Steve G. (formerly a cheesehead) has been asking about how commission costs are handled inside and outside IRAs. Gary from Florida has also been looking at AIM in relation to the DOW and NIKKEI and trying to put into place a disaster plan using AIM. Brad M. says he finds my name "all over the place" regarding AIM. He's just getting started as well. Bob M. has been tuning up with Newport for a while and was asking what to do with stock splits and reinvested distributions from funds. That's all correspondence since the first of April and that's only on my home computer! There's much more email down at my office!! I think I can safely say that this AIM thing is, after 20 years, finally starting to catch on!! It's all of us, yourself included that seem to be making it work. Congratulations to everyone! Best regards, Tom