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 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Wordy but worth the effort., August 30, 1999
Reviewer: A reader

I will forgive the author for making a salable book out of a relatively simple concept. While the concept may be simple it seems to be missed by most. Twenty years with the some of biggest and best known brokerage houses, with their MBA's and research departments, failed to come close to the returns achieved in one year with AIM. Bull market aside, fifty percent returns on a stock which has yet to get back to the original purchase price is a result I can live with. Thirty to forty percent returns with nearly half the value of the portfolios in cash (and not at risk). The concept works. Try it. You'll like it.

 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
AIM and the fortune teller, October 7, 2005
Reviewer: Archer15 (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

Ever read a disclaimer "past performance is not indicative of future results"?? duhuhh! Obviously!! Don't find many fortune tellers on Wall Street!
Read Mr. Lichello's book 6 years ago, and YES it was wordy and it was a laborious, arduous and painstaking process going through it.. But I'm glad I did coz if my past performance is any indication of the future than I know two fellas up in the sky smiling down at me as I laugh my way to the bank...every month! AIM works! In fact it works brilliantly (I didn't make a million bucks.. I made TWO! and that too in less than 6 years!) THANK YOU MR. LICHELLO may you rest in peace and may God give you special privileges!
The only reason I've given it a 4 ½ stars is coz it doesn't come with software to handle the complex portfolios. Converting the AIM algorithm to spread sheets with all the bells and whistles that I need was even more of a laborious job than reading the book and as some Spread sheet gurus pointed out "couldn't be done coz of Excel's limitations" Well they were right.. some things cant be done in Excel !
Anyway, here's the secret: go for stocks or funds with crazy beta's (that's the key) difficult to find but then you have to work for the million...but not too hard as AIM will do the rest.!

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