Commentary & Insights
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Read Jeff’s guest article in San Antonio’s INFLUENCE Magazine
As Jeff Weber travels around San Antonio, Texas, educating more people about the benefits and mechanisms of the Automated Investing Method (AIM), he often meets people with people who wonder how they can help their children have a more secure and prosperous future. This is a very real and valid concern in our world today. […]
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3 Common Investor Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
There are 3 common mistakes I see investors make: First, they invest emotionally, not logically. Example: American Express went down to $9 a share in 2009. It was the Financial Meltdown because everyone was SELLING!!! I was BUYING at $9. Now it is 9 years later in 2018. That share of AXP sells today for $99!!!!! Buying […]
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7 big reasons not to use AIM for investing
My business partner Brett and I put together a survey to ask people why they aren’t using the AIM investing method yet. For those who have started, we asked what their biggest challenge is with using AIM – the Automated Investing Method. We thank everyone for their replies. The answers fell into a few major […]
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Why I wrote my First AIM Book – Part 3
The Improvements to AIM Become a Book – Part 3 (conclusion) After becoming convinced that a new and better book on AIM investing was needed (see Part 2), I took two approaches to helping investors find the best investments for AIM. One, let the experts pick good companies & let the investor see if the […]
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Why I Wrote My First AIM Book – Part 2
The Improvements to AIM Become a Book – Part 2 (If you missed Part 1 of this story, please click here) Now I had 75 AIM spreadsheets in front of me and started trying to organize them. I put oil stocks together, casino stocks together, etc. As I looked at these sheets, ideas for chapters […]
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Why Did I Write My First AIM Investing Book – Part 1
I’ve always loved books and bookstores – a great place to haunt, browse and survey. In my college days I had a roommate who shared my passion. And since we were poor, what better place for our indulgences than a used book store. We found just the place – Kurber’s Used Books on Prince Street […]
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7 Reasons Why You Should Read “Here Are the Customers’ Yachts”
I first read Robert Lichello’s incredible book How to Make $1,000,000 in the Stock Market Automatically over 30 years ago and it still is the most important financial advice book I ever read. Here I am holding a drawing of me from one of those younger years… Mr. Lichello invented an incredible contrary algorithm that […]
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AIM loves when the stock market goes down
Nothing can go up forever. Even the stock market. When the stock market goes down, most people get very stressed and upset. But you don’t have to worry if you have a contrary investing method like I use. It’s the same method that I have taught to many others. I have owned a portfolio of […]
4 Activities You Shouldn’t Treat Like Investing
By Ben Stamp, guest contributor The idea of “alternative investment” can be very appealing to a lot of people. The stock market is complex and demanding, and while it still offers lucrative opportunity it can also be thoroughly intimidating. Particularly among younger people, there is often some distrust in the stock market. (Remember, many young […]