01/22/18

Good Evening, This market is unstoppable! It is in beast mode. What else can you say when it basically ignores a government shut down and then rally’s off the news when an agreement is reached to open it back up? No sir, no ma’am, the bulls just considered that another buying opportunity and they put every bear to shame that got in their way. I know it’s hard not to take the profits that you have off the table. Believe me, I understand. But before you do just remember the recent blog when we discussed the new tax reform bill and how it would effect earning’s. It’s the earnings that are driving this market and right now they are great!  Earnings growth of 12.4 percent is expected for the quarter, according to Thomson Reuters data. Of the 55 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings through Monday morning, 80 percent have topped expectations, well above the 72 percent beat rate for the past four quarters. There you go. We called it!

The days afternoon rally left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.81%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.55%, the Nasdaq +0.98%, and the S&P 500 +0.81%. Not bad for our first day in the C Fund. Praise God for another good day!

 

Stocks hit record as senators reach deal to end shutdown

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +4.16% on the year not including today’s results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

01/19/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.5598 17.9483 39.5637 50.48 32.382
$ Change 0.0010 -0.0272 0.1740 0.5615 0.1606
% Change day +0.01% -0.15% +0.44% +1.12% +0.50%
% Change week +0.05% -0.43% +0.88% +0.55% +0.68%
% Change month +0.12% -0.92% +5.19% +4.16% +4.95%
% Change year +0.12% -0.92% +5.19% +4.16% +4.95%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.7493 27.3581 31.6572 34.6619 20.1769
$ Change 0.0210 0.0516 0.1066 0.1397 0.0939
% Change day +0.11% +0.19% +0.34% +0.40% +0.47%
% Change week +0.16% +0.27% +0.46% +0.53% +0.61%
% Change month +1.02% +1.74% +3.00% +3.53% +4.02%
% Change year +1.02% +1.74% +3.00% +3.53% +4.02%

 

 

 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: Still the best chart.
S Fund:
I Fund:
F Fund: An SCTR of 5.1. Is there anything else you need to know??
Our allocation performed well today. It’s steady as she goes! 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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