04/11/18

Good Evening, Yesterday we talked about the fact that the market may be setting up for a good run into the summer. We also said that there were a few geopolitical issues out there that could impede that run. Well that’s what we got today. After starting off strong the market weakened throughout the day and closed well in the red. That said, it actually hung in there pretty strong given the steady dose of disrupting news that it received throughout the day. So I’m not ready to throw in the towel just yet. One thing I’m sure of is that when this year is over we’ll all be pining away for the action we had in 2017. Gone but not forgotten……

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment managed a small gain of +0.02%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.90%, the Nasdaq -0.36%, and the S&P 500 -0.55%.

 

Wall Street falls on Syria, interest rate worries

The days trading 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 -0.21% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results.

 

04/10/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6543 17.8362 37.5676 48.7709 31.0307
$ Change 0.0012 -0.0073 0.6186 0.8667 0.3016
% Change day +0.01% -0.04% +1.67% +1.81% +0.98%
% Change week +0.03% -0.04% +2.04% +1.79% +1.53%
% Change month +0.08% -0.09% +0.67% +0.52% +1.67%
% Change year +0.73% -1.54% -0.11% +0.63% +0.57%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6607 27.0172 30.8499 33.5788 19.4449
$ Change 0.0590 0.1346 0.2770 0.3571 0.2351
% Change day +0.30% +0.50% +0.91% +1.07% +1.22%
% Change week +0.39% +0.64% +1.13% +1.34% +1.52%
% Change month +0.24% +0.33% +0.59% +0.69% +0.78%
% Change year +0.56% +0.47% +0.37% +0.30% +0.25%

 

 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:
I know this seems like an overused phrase but it’s day by day now. One thing that I failed to mention above, The Fed Minutes were released in the afternoon and added to the pressure on the market. They stated that many Fed members were concerned that they might have to raise rates at a more rapid pace due to inflation. I’m saying, does that really surprise anyone???? Oh well, as I said it is day by day now. There are so many market influencing issues out there that I wouldn’t even venture a guess at this point. We must watch the charts as we have always done and react to whatever we see. We have earnings starting on Friday. Hopefully, that will give us a bump! That’s all for today. Have a nice evening and may God bless your trades.
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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