02/12/18

Good Evening, Two good days in a row! Are we done with the selling? Probably most of it. Are we done with the volatility? Some of it but not all of it. Things will not return to the placid nature of 2017. For now we’ll have to focus on climbing back up the mountain. The one positive thing to take away from today’s trading was that the dip buyers were back. The action had a V type feel to it although I’m pretty sure that we’ve seen the end of the V shaped recoveries. I only saw a handful of those in all the years that I traded prior to 2008. The V Shaped recovery was not a natural thing when human emotion was involved. It was the product of quantitative easing and the computer algorithms that took advantage of it and both of those are behind us now.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment made a nice gain of +1.39%. For comparison, the Dow added +1.70%, the Nasdaq +1.56%, and the S&P 500 +1.39%.

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now -1.46% for the year. Here are the latest postede results:

 

02/12/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.5857 17.7503 37.4321 47.3819 30.4662
$ Change 0.0035 -0.0201 0.5157 0.5120 0.4798
% Change day +0.02% -0.11% +1.40% +1.09% +1.60%
% Change week +0.02% -0.11% +1.40% +1.09% +1.60%
% Change month +0.09% -0.88% -5.86% -5.40% -5.96%
% Change year +0.29% -2.01% -0.47% -2.24% -1.26%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.5386 26.8262 30.5565 33.2266 19.2242
$ Change 0.0575 0.1344 0.2625 0.3354 0.2198
% Change day +0.30% +0.50% +0.87% +1.02% +1.16%
% Change week +0.30% +0.50% +0.87% +1.02% +1.16%
% Change month -1.15% -2.04% -3.59% -4.26% -4.83%
% Change year -0.06% -0.24% -0.58% -0.75% -0.89%

 

 

 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:
I thank God for His guidance yet again. Keep watching your charts! 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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