"Automatic Investment Management" (AIM)
Lichello's book introduces "Automatic Investment Management (AIM)." AIM is the CPT archetype.
Core Position Trading™ (CPT)
To facilitate calculating the quantities of your next AIM Buys and Sells at different prices, an easy-to-use program is available.
AIM/CPT Stock/ETF Next Buy/Sell Transaction Calculator Program
Contact me (David A. Bean) for consulting about CPT refinements, and possible extension to commodities and options.
The AIM methodology has been adapted to precious metals (PMs) trading with e-gold® e-metals®. Now the small investor can take advantage of PM relative price movements.
AIM e-gold® e-metal® Transaction Calculator Program
Financial Information
Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Definitions Commonly Found on Precious Metals and Financial Discussion Forums. Do you know what is meant when someone accuses the PPT arm of the PTB of manipulating the POO, POG, and Duck?
David A. Bean's Precious Metals and Financial Discussion Forum Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Definitions.
Precious Metals Weight Equivalents. Metric, Troy, and Avoirdupois Weight Equivalents -- grains, grams, ounces (troy and avoirdupois), metric tonnes, and more. E.g., how many ounces (troy) in a metric tonne?
Precious Metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium) Weight Equivalents.
The Rule of 72. How long to double your principal at various interest rates? How long to double your money at various rates of return? How long for the government to cut your purchasing power in half at various rates of inflation?
Rule of 72 for Interest Rate, Rate of Return, and Purchasing Power Calculations.
Investing and Speculating
Risk/Reward Ratio Evaluation for Stocks, ETFs, and Futures Investing and Trading. Most advisory service results and risk/reward ratio indications are misleading.
Risk/Reward Ratio Evaluation
Candlestick Psychology
Top 5 Books by the Masters of Trading The top 5 timeless stock and commodities (futures) trading books recommended in a Futures Magazine Article (Fall 2003).
Top 5 Books by the Masters of Trading.
Technical Analysis (TA) and Risk & Money Management Bibliography. A more comprehensive list of recommended stock and commodities (futures) trading books that various people swear by.
Technical Analysis and Risk & Money Mangement Bibliography.
Many people swear by TA. I haven't had good results with it. Are they smarter than I? More diligent? Have they sorted out what actually works from all the b.s. and hype? I, personally, have had better results (profits) with AIM (modified).
Core Position Trading™ (CPT)
Hard-to-Find
How to Survive a Spastic Economy;
A Guide to Successful Investment & Management in Tomorrow's
Economy
David E. Rhoads
Forty Centuries of Wage & Price Controls; How Not to Fight Inflation Robert Schuettinger & Eamonn Butler
Important
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Harry Browne