03/29/18

Good Evening, Calmer heads prevailed ahead of the holiday shortened weekend to produce a nice bounce. Key support held for another day on the charts. So the question now is will there be any follow though or was this a dead cat bounce. As you know I am a reactive trader but the nature of writing a blog forces me to prognosticate just a little whether I like it or not. That said, the first two days of April or historically positive and given the fact that we are still technically in a bull market I’d have to guess that we will have some follow through on today’s rally. At least for the first part of the week anyway, but barring any land minds (and there seems to be quite a few of those lately) I am looking for a strong month in April.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a nice gain of +1.22%. For comparison, the Dow added +1.07%, the Nasdaq +1.64% and the S&P 500 +1.38%. Thank God for the bounce!

 

U.S. stocks jump in upbeat end to tumultuous quarter

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now -1.92% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

03/28/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6387 17.8135 36.8107 47.9322 30.3424
$ Change 0.0013 0.0096 -0.1016 -0.0620 0.2272
% Change day +0.01% +0.05% -0.28% -0.13% +0.75%
% Change week +0.04% +0.31% +0.66% +0.15% +1.76%
% Change month +0.22% +0.44% -3.87% -0.53% -1.34%
% Change year +0.63% -1.66% -2.13% -1.10% -1.66%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.5631 26.8153 30.453 33.0736 19.1158
$ Change 0.0040 0.0075 0.0128 0.0161 0.0105
% Change day +0.02% +0.03% +0.04% +0.05% +0.05%
% Change week +0.23% +0.35% +0.58% +0.68% +0.76%
% Change month -0.33% -0.75% -1.48% -1.77% -2.03%
% Change year +0.06% -0.28% -0.92% -1.21% -1.45%

 

 

 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: The I Fund generated an overall neutral signal when the SCTR moved above 40 and the Wms%R moved into a positive configuration.
F Fund:
We’ll see if we can get back into a sustained upward trend on Monday.  The market will be closed tomorrow for Good Friday. Until then have a great weekend and remember, He is Risen!
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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