Good Evening, The market traded flat today as it waits for one thing old and one thing new. Traders are still monitoring the trade negotiations with China. Good news about progress being made on key issues continues to trickle out. Keep praying for a positive resolution to those negotiations. New on the radar this week are earnings. Earnings season starts anew on Friday with reports from some of the nations top banks. JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co are due to report on Friday, followed by Citigroup Inc and Goldman Sachs Inc on Monday and Bank of America Corp and Morgan Stanley on Tuesday. Adding just a little support today were some positive reports offsetting concerns that a global slowdown with reach these shores. On the economic front, initial jobless claims dropped last week to their lowest level since 1969, while in March, producer prices made their biggest gain since October, according to separate reports from the U.S. Labor Department. The bears are calling for profits to drop some 2-3%. Could the market possibly be setting up for a surprise? I wonder if those earnings estimates aren’t a tad too much on the negative side. We will see……
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment was flat at +0.00%. Hey, I’m happy we hung onto all our gains! It’s what you keep that’s important!! For comparison, the Dow slipped -0.05%, the Nasdaq dropped -0.21%, and the S&P 500 broke even. For those of you that are keeping score and I know you are the S Fund broke even as well are +0.00%. I thank God for another good day!
The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +10.11% on the year. Here are the latest posted results.
| 04/11/19 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 16.1114 | 18.6369 | 41.6653 | 52.3529 | 29.99 |
| $ Change | 0.0011 | -0.0176 | 0.0017 | 0.0284 | -0.0054 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | -0.09% | +0.00% | +0.05% | -0.02% |
| % Change week | +0.04% | +0.08% | -0.11% | +0.11% | -0.03% |
| % Change month | +0.08% | -0.22% | +1.97% | +2.64% | +1.97% |
| % Change year | +0.74% | +2.72% | +15.89% | +19.05% | +12.27% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 20.4109 | 28.1079 | 32.3958 | 35.3543 | 20.5125 |
| $ Change | 0.0000 | -0.0002 | -0.0007 | -0.0010 | -0.0005 |
| % Change day | +0.00% | +0.00% | +0.00% | +0.00% | +0.00% |
| % Change week | +0.02% | +0.02% | -0.01% | -0.02% | -0.03% |
| % Change month | +0.47% | +0.63% | +1.25% | +1.49% | +1.69% |
| % Change year | +3.66% | +4.90% | +9.31% | +11.03% | +12.52% |
