View Our Purpose

View our Unifying Purpose Statement:

We expect people to control, save, and invest their own money.
We work to learn how to effectively use tools, techniques, & training.

We search to find the best tools via websites, Email, & spreadsheets.

We access informed people to clarify and solve mutual problems

We use business cycles & strong ETF sectors to invest our own assets.

Our group does not require people to join AAII.
But, information is available at a low cost from their sources:

See the details on how we move toward our unifying purpose:

Consider this website as a ‘Decision Support System’.
As we learn, we adapt & re-allocate our investments.

Our mutual challenge is to understand the demand vs. supply relationships.

Thus, we use indicators and adapt to our indicators.

Our three key indicators tell us the levels of activity -- relative to the past.

1. We can capture indications of activity and adapt/invest -- based on our own analysis.

2. Or, we can let others tell us how to adapt/invest -- based on their own motives.

Under either choice, we hope to sense future prices -- relative to current prices.

Choice #1 tells us where we are now. We are in the drivers seat.

Choice #2 is like driving without indicators. We depend on others to tells us when to turn.

See the details on how we use small group dynamics:

When small groups of people cooperate with un-tethered computers

then the nature of cooperation changes and we engage people in parallel processing.

We use problem statements as indicators of the supply vs. demands within our group.
As we un-bundle problem statements, we gain access to new views. As we inform ourselves with new information, we find new people and new parts of the network. And, as we collect our thoughts into a statement of ‘collective thoughts’, we revisit our old views. Judgments of good, bad, right and wrong in this context do not help. Rather, judgments slow down the problem solving process. Thus, by deferring judgment, we can re-bundle our problem statements into SOLUTION STATMENTS to access our collective genius.

Our mutual interests do not propose to limit the individual interests of people. Rather, the statement of mutual problems can help us network with others who share our interests.

Sometimes, a strong individual's interest may coalesce to slice up our mutual purpose statement. One possible result of a strong interest is to re-define our purpose statement. The re-definition of a purpose statement could get deeper based on the individual interests and plans to act. Or, the re-definition of a purpose statement may result in separate meetings to focus on separate purpose statements with little cross-pollination. And, that may help. We have only to look at the history of religions to understand that their differences were more important than their similarities.

If, however, the incentive exists to cross-pollinate then using the 'cooperative problem solving' process may help.

Our process states a purpose, problems, and solutions. By virtue of these statements, we act to re-integrate our 'master list of statements' -- with less effort.

In summary, we help minimize the effort required to support our mutual interests. Thus, each of us decides if our similarities are more important than our differences. But, if we focus on our differences than we may never get to discuss our similarities.