01/20/17

Good Evening, Well inauguration day finally arrived! Now the trading will shift from hope to reality. Like Him or hate him a lot of investors believe that Trumps policies will be market friendly. However, most of them are being cautious as they would with any change. The market doesn’t always do what they think so they are careful with any change. It is much easier to be a reactive trader as we are and not worry about such things. No use in worrying about the things we are powerless to change. Just read the charts and do what they say…… and pray…..

The days action left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.42%. For comparison the Dow added +0.48%, the Nasdaq +0.28% and the S&P 500 +0.34%. They say it was the first time in 50 years that an incoming president was met with a rising market. Interesting, but I’m not sure if it has any bearing on the future.

 

Wall Street ends higher as Trump becomes president.

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allotment is now +0.94% for the year not including the days gains. Here are the latest posted results:

01/19/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.2057 17.4533 31.2436 41.3818 25.0159
$ Change 0.0010 -0.0604 -0.1122 -0.2731 -0.1850
% Change day +0.01% -0.34% -0.36% -0.66% -0.73%
% Change week +0.04% -0.36% -0.46% -1.16% -0.89%
% Change month +0.12% +0.03% +1.20% +0.94% +1.68%
% Change year +0.12% +0.03% +1.20% +0.94% +1.68%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.4758 24.6273 27.067 28.9542 16.5059
$ Change -0.0219 -0.0564 -0.0933 -0.1167 -0.0749
% Change day -0.12% -0.23% -0.34% -0.40% -0.45%
% Change week -0.13% -0.29% -0.45% -0.53% -0.61%
% Change month +0.36% +0.61% +0.86% +0.99% +1.10%
% Change year +0.36% +0.61% +0.86% +0.99% +1.10%

 

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:

C Fund

 

S Fund:

S Fund

 

I Fund: The SCTR tells us that this fund is getting stronger.

I Fund

 

F Fund:

F Fund

 

The I Fund is looking strong but we’ll stay put in the S Fund for now. 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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