03/16/18

Good Evening, The market finished the day slightly in the green after another tumultuous trading session influenced by trade war speculation and White House unrest. However, stocks did not end in the green the past five days. For the week the Dow dropped 1.54%, the S&P 500 slipped 1.25% and the Nasdaq fell 1.04%. I’ll let you catch up on the news in the link below….

The days trading left us with the following results. Our new TSP allotment performed well with a gain of +0.47%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.29%, the Nasdaq +0.00%, and the S&P 500 +0.17%. Thank God for another good day!

 

Wall Street rises with help from industrial data

The weeks trading left us with the following signals. C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +2.17% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

03/15/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6227 17.769 38.8083 49.9307 30.9375
$ Change 0.0013 -0.0092 -0.0275 -0.2129 0.0401
% Change day +0.01% -0.05% -0.07% -0.42% +0.13%
% Change week +0.05% +0.31% -1.37% -1.18% -0.18%
% Change month +0.12% +0.19% +1.34% +3.62% +0.59%
% Change year +0.53% -1.91% +3.19% +3.02% +0.27%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.705 27.1792 31.2063 34.0499 19.7615
$ Change -0.0018 -0.0056 -0.0127 -0.0176 -0.0121
% Change day -0.01% -0.02% -0.04% -0.05% -0.06%
% Change week -0.14% -0.30% -0.57% -0.68% -0.78%
% Change month +0.39% +0.60% +0.96% +1.13% +1.28%
% Change year +0.79% +1.07% +1.53% +1.71% +1.88%

 

 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:
Our move to the S Fund looks like a good one. We’ll continue to monitor it’s chart and compare it to the C Fund to look for any sign of a  market shift back to large cap stocks.
That’s all for this weekend. 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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