02/19/19

Good Evening, There were two dynamics shaping the market today. The first of course were the trade negotiations with China that moved to Washington. Supposedly the purpose of this round of negotiations is to pave the way for higher level negotiations to come soon including Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. The specter of an agreement is keeping the bears at bay for now which is the reason that we continue to see modest albeit steady gains. The second issue was Walmart’s report which stated that Walmart had on of the best Christmas seasons in a while. This reassured market players after several recent less than stellar retail reports. Walmart’s report also showed that they are beginning to gain some ground against the death star Amazon in the area of on line sales. Amazon still owns the space but Walmart is giving it everything they’ve got which seemed to encourage investors……

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a modest gain of +0.18%. For comparison, the Dow squeaked up +0.03%, the Nasdaq +0.19%, and the S&P 500 +0.15%. Hey, I’ll take it, up is up. Praise God for that!!

 

Wall Street rises modestly on Walmart bump

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +6.36% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

02/18/19 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 16.0467 18.343 39.9115 51.2702 28.856
$ Change 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
% Change day +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00%
% Change week +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00%
% Change month +0.11% +0.04% +2.78% +4.43% +1.33%
% Change year +0.34% +1.10% +11.01% +16.58% +8.02%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 20.1686 27.6921 31.5762 34.3255 19.8521
$ Change 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
% Change day +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00%
% Change week +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00% +0.00%
% Change month +0.59% +0.80% +1.55% +1.84% +2.09%
% Change year +2.43% +3.35% +6.54% +7.80% +8.90%

 

 

 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: Things are picking up. The question here is will the dollar continue to weaken???
F Fund:
Nothing new to add here. We just need to continue to monitor our charts and any news released on the trade negotiations with China. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades!
God bless, Scott Sunglasses
 
 ***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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