03/09/18

Good Evening, The market received a a triple boost from the news today. First the jobs report came in solid with over 300,000 jobs being created in February. Adding to that piece of news was the fact that wage growth came in a little flat. That created a Goldilocks situation in that that the job creation was good but the wage growth was not strong enough to cause inflation. Second, we had a less aggressive stance from the Trump administration on tariffs and third there was news of a meeting being planned between President Trump and North Korean leader KIm Jong Un. Of particular interest to investors was Kim Jong Un’s pledge to refrain from nuclear testing until the meeting is held. There you have it, the market rallied triple digits on triple tail winds. It was a great day to be invested!

The rally left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment made up some lost ground with a hefty gain of +1.74%. For comparison, the Dow was up +1.77%, the Nasdaq +1.79%, and the S&P 500 +1.74%. Praise God for a wonderful day!!

 

Stocks, oil rally on U.S. jobs data, Korea news

The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +1.81% on the year not including the days gains. Here are the latest posted results:

 

03/08/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6141 17.7338 38.6737 49.8084 30.7519
$ Change 0.0013 0.0185 0.1825 -0.0016 0.1444
% Change day +0.01% +0.10% +0.47% +0.00% +0.47%
% Change week +0.05% +0.00% +1.81% +2.48% +1.67%
% Change month +0.06% -0.01% +0.99% +3.37% -0.01%
% Change year +0.47% -2.10% +2.83% +2.77% -0.34%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6778 27.1268 31.1171 33.9395 19.691
$ Change 0.0183 0.0414 0.0788 0.0999 0.0646
% Change day +0.09% +0.15% +0.25% +0.30% +0.33%
% Change week +0.41% +0.68% +1.16% +1.37% +1.56%
% Change month +0.25% +0.40% +0.67% +0.80% +0.92%
% Change year +0.65% +0.88% +1.24% +1.38% +1.52%

 

 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: The Bullish Wedge is still in play.
It was a great day. God blessed us again as we were in the right place. That’s all for tonight. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you on Monday.
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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