01/01/16

Good Evening, The market managed to hang onto most of it’s gains from Friday today. Although, the major indices did finish slightly in the red. Given that oil dropped today, that is very good. So what gives? Are stocks finally uncoupled from crude? That would be nice. I guess we’ll see.

Today’s trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment remained steady in the G Fund. For comparison, the Dow was off slightly at -0.10%, the Nasdaq was in the green at +0.14%, and the S&P 500 slipped -0.04%. Once again, given that oil dropped, that was very good!

 

Wall Street cuts losses to close flat; Alphabet jumps after hours

 

The days action let us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Buy. We remain invested at 100/G. Our allocation is now +0.19% for the year not including today’s results. Here are the latest posted results:

01/29/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 14.9439 17.2071 26.1963 32.1616 22.7409
$ Change 0.0028 0.0562 0.6337 0.9467 0.4710
% Change day +0.02% +0.33% +2.48% +3.03% +2.11%
% Change week +0.06% +0.59% +1.77% +1.29% +2.55%
% Change month +0.19% +1.49% -4.96% -8.72% -5.62%
% Change year +0.19% +1.49% -4.96% -8.72% -5.62%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 17.6116 22.6159 24.1674 25.4524 14.2957
$ Change 0.0917 0.2635 0.3811 0.4635 0.2937
% Change day +0.52% +1.18% +1.60% +1.85% +2.10%
% Change week +0.46% +0.96% +1.28% +1.47% +1.65%
% Change month -0.91% -2.55% -3.58% -4.21% -4.86%
% Change year -0.91% -2.55% -3.58% -4.21% -4.86%

 

Lets take a look at the charts: (All signals annotated with Green Circles) If you click on the charts they will become larger!

 

C Fund: All of our equity based funds are exhibiting similar patterns at this time. We must see at a minimum, the 5 EMA pass up through the 200 EMA before we can consider getting back into stocks. One encouraging sign on all our carts is the Accum/Dist line. On all of our charts, the C,S, and I, it shows that money is flowing back into the market. If that continues it should fuel some more upside!

C Fund

 

S Fund:

S Fund

 

I Fund:

I Fund

 

F Fund:

F Fund

 

That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening!

 God bless, Scott 8-)
 
 ***Just a reminder that you can review the performance of our allocation at the Web Site TSPTALK.com in the autotracker section under the screen name KyFan1.
 
 
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Scott Grimes

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