04/12/18

Good Evening, They now have a new trade called the Trump trade. President Trump tweets a threat or threats. Then the market dips. Then President Trump softens the threats and the market rallies. The Trump Trade is to buy the dip. So far it’s worked to perfection…… Anyway, Today President Trump dialed back his threat to launch missiles in Syria and the market responded with a strong rally. No doubt, there was some posturing ahead of the 2nd quarter earnings season that begins tomorrow. Analysts expect quarterly profit for S&P 500 companies to rise 18.4 percent from a year ago That would be the biggest gain in seven years and should give the market a big boost!

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.58%. For comparison, the Dow added +1.21%, the Nasdaq +1.01%, and the S&P 500 +0.83%. Praise God for another good day!

 

Wall Street gains on earnings optimism, waning Syria jitters

The days action 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 -0.19% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

04/11/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6555 17.8481 37.3616 48.7766 30.9893
$ Change 0.0012 0.0119 -0.2060 0.0057 -0.0414
% Change day +0.01% +0.07% -0.55% +0.01% -0.13%
% Change week +0.04% +0.03% +1.48% +1.80% +1.40%
% Change month +0.08% -0.02% +0.11% +0.53% +1.53%
% Change year +0.74% -1.47% -0.66% +0.64% +0.43%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6488 26.9882 30.7882 33.4998 19.3934
$ Change -0.0119 -0.0290 -0.0617 -0.0790 -0.0515
% Change day -0.06% -0.11% -0.20% -0.24% -0.26%
% Change week +0.33% +0.53% +0.93% +1.10% +1.25%
% Change month +0.18% +0.22% +0.39% +0.46% +0.51%
% Change year +0.50% +0.36% +0.17% +0.06% -0.02%

 

 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: The C Fund generated an overall buy signal when the PMO and MACD moved into positive configurations with the SCTR above 40.
S Fund: The S Fund generated an overall buy signal when the PMO and MACD moved into positive configurations with the SCTR above 40.
I Fund: The I Fund generated an overall buy signal when it’s 5 EMA moved above the 50 EMA and the PMO and MACD moved into positive configurations with the SCTR above 40.
F Fund:
Earnings tomorrow! It should be rally on!! That’s all for tonight. Have a great evening and may God continue to 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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