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We are the Silicon Valley Chapter for the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) and our mission is to educate and empower individual investors in their quest for achieving financial independence. To that end, we strive to bring compelling and accomplished speakers to present timely, relevant and actionable information on personal financial planning, wealth building, and investing.
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The AAII Silicon Valley Chapter holds several monthly events:
* Main Events features renowned speakers on a variety of topics! A nominal fee of $10 to attend covers the overhead of speaker costs, facility rental and event expenses.
* Free to attend: Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetups meet monthly on four topics: 1. Financial Planning SIG; 2. Investment Discussion SIG; 3. Computerized Investing SIG; and 4. FinTech SIG.
We are not here to sell anything - only to create an open and friendly environment for like-minded people to learn, share and explore investing. We are an all-volunteer organization and are always seeking additional members who can help with various planning and administrative issues.
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The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 for the purpose of assisting individuals in becoming effective managers of their own assets through programs of education, information and research. National membership is $29 per year, but you do NOT need to be a member to attend our local Silicon Valley Chapter meetings and events.
Now for the legal stuff.... (sorry, it's required)
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- 7/3/2025 Silicon Valley Computerized Investing MeetingNeeds location
Our Silicon Valley Computerized Investing meeting is on Thursday, 7/3/2025 on ZOOM.
The ZOOM link is – https://zoom.us/j/83834590663 - same as last month. You can also start zoom and then enter the meeting ID = 83834590663. Ignore any messages about meeting being over.
Agenda for the meeting
· (6:30 – 6:35) Administrative Items (Don Maurer)
· (6:35 – 7:15) Timers/Strategies Status (Don Maurer)
· (7:15 – 7:45) Current Market Conditions (Gilbert Ho)
· (7:45 – 8:15) Regime Identification - Two Ways (Don Maurer)
· (8:15 – 8:45) CI Survey Results (Don Maurer)I will show the status of our 11 best market timers and our 282 best strategies – NEW Strats10 (=131*2 + 20 WF Strategies) with new K-ratio and Slope ranking algorithm results.
Gilbert will show the current market conditions charts.
Note that FNGB 3x Fang like stocks is now FNGU. This may have made some changes to my extensions of it back in time. We've made the entire transition from FNGU to FNGA to FNGB and back to FNGU. I believe it was only so they could raise their fees for the ETN...
I will present the results of some work on Regime Identification - two ways. One is based on a research paper by Harvey, etal. which is on our OneDrive in the Investment Articles/2025 folder - Regimes-Campbell Harvey etal - ssrn-5164863.pdf.
The second way uses K-Means clustering. Ren Curry is also doing some work using K nearest neighbors based on a Medium article he read and he mentioned it to me. Using the state variables from the Harvey paper, I tried some independent ideas using K-Means clustering vs. K nearest neighbors.
At some time in the future, I hope Ren will show us his work on this subject.
Re: Survey. Today I see we have 31 responses. Some said Zoom had limits on the number of characters in an answer. I'll check to see if there is anyway to increase that. Next time, I can add more blank lines that may allow enough input.
If you haven't answered the survey, please do it by today 7/2/2025. I'll go over the responses at our meeting on Thursday.
https://s.zoom.us/m/bPlWdp7gFThanks,
Don MaurerAll presentations and data are stored on our OneDrive - including zoom recordings of the past year’s meetings:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArVYry6KpqBthckzBCrT3KTt8xgovQ?e=Qb9vymOur new Google Group can be joined at the following link:
https://groups.google.com/g/aaii-silicon-valley-computerized-investing/More information about AAII-Silicon Valley can be found at the AAII-SV webpage (http://www.siliconvalleyaaii.org/ ) and at our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sv.aaii/ )
AAII-SV can be contacted at: mailto: aaiichapter_siliconvalley@yahoo.com
General information about AAII can be found at the AAII-HQ webpage (http://www.aaii.com/ )
AAII Silicon Valley is affiliated with the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), a nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 for the purpose of assisting individuals in becoming effective managers of their own assets through programs of education, information, and research.
