Position Cost Averaging

Hi PCA Fans,

Well, I missed the bottom…

The market tanked into the abyss on Friday and I missed my chance to get the PCA software updated at those prices… and even after the Biggest One Day Gain in Wall Street History… The market is still low enough for the software to kick out a fresh round of buy orders.

Here they are…

3 straight trades in SPY…wow!

Then we get a double in IWM…

Another Double order on DIA…

Getting a double energy buy in XLE…

We get a single buy order in XLF…

Finally we got a single buy order in QLD.

We may have gotten another round with this but we ran this holding down to just $80.00 in cash! Because PCA is a "fixed cost" portfolio process, the system will not issue buy orders when the cash reserve is dry. This is one difference between PCA and Lichello’s AIM. Since no system is "all knowing" it’s time for a human to look and see if we might deploy more cash into this equity. I will wait and see. We got hold orders in many of of positions and we are awaiting further instructions from the software. It is important to note that I am purposefully managing this portfolio in a less than optimum way. I am doing this so that people do not think I am cherry picking.. or that I am a "power user" or anything. I want to show that anyone can do this style of investing and that even if you don’t catch the "tops" or "bottoms" and even if you paid too many commissions by not "bundling" the trades, this system will still be good for you. In fact, the PCA system is one of the most "forgiving" trading models that I know of.

Hi PCA Fans,

Today we set up a GLD holding in our model portfolio and we are going to do something a little different this time.

With PCA starting out with a 50-50 split cash and shares you could "buy in" to a 60% decline or more with all that available cash.

I don’t think we have to worry about Gold falling 60% from here. Since Gold has fallen so far from the highs already we are starting out with only 100 shares of GLD and a 30% cash reserve.

Here are the details…

Here is the trade advice…

Here are the settings for this holding

And now we wait for the market to do something.

Hi PCA fans,

Today we set up QLD in our model portfolio under the Leveraged ETF portfolio. The Starting price roughly 80 bucks and we are starting with 100  shares and an equal cash reserve.

We are using 300 dollars as the minimum market order to buy or sell, this represents about 2% of the overall portfolio value for the shares and the cash reserve.

Here is the trade advice that we get.

I expect this holding to generate more trades than the holdings in the indices portfolio.

Please understand that this is not investment advice. The Position Cost Averaging system will give custom advice for each user based on the AIM methodology.

This is what is going to happen to our model portfolio as we move forward we’ll update the holdings.

If you would like to watch the video… please do!

AIM High!