03/14/19

Good Evening, The markets were mixed today on more uncertainty over trade talks with China.  Stocks were under pressure after a report was released saying President Donald Trump was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China. However later in the day Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin both said discussions with China were progressing quickly. As we discussed in an earlier blog ,the market will likely remain in a trading range possibly with a slightly negative bias until an agreement is reached.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped -0.15%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.03%, the Nasdaq dropped -0.16%, and the S&P 500 fell -0.09%. All in all it was pretty flat.

 

S&P 500 eases amid U.S.-China trade uncertainty

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/F. Our allocation is now +5.68% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

03/13/19 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 16.0773 18.4437 40.4825 51.1751 29.1916
$ Change 0.0012 -0.0055 0.2824 0.2505 0.1186
% Change day +0.01% -0.03% +0.70% +0.49% +0.41%
% Change week +0.04% +0.17% +2.49% +2.31% +1.64%
% Change month +0.10% +0.65% +1.01% -0.71% -0.04%
% Change year +0.53% +1.66% +12.60% +16.37% +9.28%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 20.2509 27.8282 31.8201 34.6245 20.0402
$ Change 0.0245 0.0474 0.1087 0.1403 0.0921
% Change day +0.12% +0.17% +0.34% +0.41% +0.46%
% Change week +0.48% +0.67% +1.32% +1.57% +1.78%
% Change month +0.20% +0.23% +0.32% +0.35% +0.36%
% Change year +2.85% +3.86% +7.37% +8.74% +9.93%

 

 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:
We’ll continue to keep a close eye on our equity based charts to determine when our next entry point will be. That’s all for tonight. Have a great 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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Scott Grimes

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