01/09/17

Good Evening, Stocks remained flat today as they consolidate before earnings reports that begin later this week. The financial sector led the way for gainers buoyed by rising treasury yields. The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped back -0.03%. For comparison, the Dow gained +0.41%, the Nasdaq +0.09% and the S&P 500 +013%.The Dow again misrepresented what was really going on as a few pf it’s weighted components made sizable gains. Boeing (BA) comes to mind with a gain of +2.76%. That’s nice for the Dow but the rest of the market was pretty flat…… As usual the S&P 500 was the best indicator of market climate….

 

Wall Street climbs with boost from healthcare, banks

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +2.01% for the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

01/08/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.5486 18.0595 38.6626 49.4383 31.581
$ Change 0.0030 -0.0004 0.0647 0.1451 -0.0278
% Change day +0.02% +0.00% +0.17% +0.29% -0.09%
% Change week +0.02% +0.00% +0.17% +0.29% -0.09%
% Change month +0.05% -0.31% +2.80% +2.01% +2.35%
% Change year +0.05% -0.31% +2.80% +2.01% +2.35%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6539 27.1346 31.2132 34.09 19.7986
$ Change 0.0072 0.0136 0.0231 0.0289 0.0189
% Change day +0.04% +0.05% +0.07% +0.08% +0.10%
% Change week +0.04% +0.05% +0.07% +0.08% +0.10%
% Change month +0.53% +0.91% +1.55% +1.83% +2.07%
% Change year +0.53% +0.91% +1.55% +1.83% +2.07%

 

 Now lets take a look at the charts. All signals are annotated with green circles. If you click on the charts they will become larger.
C Fund:
S Fund:
I Fund:
F Fund: And this is the reason that we don’t invest in funds with an SCTR of 7.3……

 

There’s really not much to talk about. Investors are pretty much waiting on earnings. One thing I will mention is drop in the price of bonds. As investors sell bonds a lot of that money usually ends up in stocks which is encouraging for us moving on into 2018. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades.
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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