04/16/18

Good Evening, The market bounced back today as it put the well anticipated US bombing in Syria behind it. Earnings season is now underway with earnings expected to improve greatly. S&P 500 companies are expected to report an 18.6 percent jump in first-quarter profit, on average, the biggest rise in seven years. With that in mind investors are looking for the market to rally into the month of May.

The days trading left us with the following results. Our TSP allotment posted a gain of 0.92%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.87%, the Nasdaq +0.70%, and the S&P 500 +0.81%. Thank God for another good day!

 

Wall Street rises, focus turns to earnings from geopolitics

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 -0.07% on the year not including the days gains which will put us back in the green! Here are the latest posted results:

 

04/13/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6578 17.8133 37.5665 48.8373 31.0168
$ Change 0.0012 0.0023 -0.1081 -0.2264 0.0804
% Change day +0.01% +0.01% -0.29% -0.46% +0.26%
% Change week +0.05% -0.17% +2.04% +1.93% +1.49%
% Change month +0.10% -0.21% +0.66% +0.66% +1.62%
% Change year +0.75% -1.67% -0.12% +0.77% +0.52%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6624 27.0186 30.8501 33.5786 19.445
$ Change -0.0046 -0.0122 -0.0274 -0.0362 -0.0243
% Change day -0.02% -0.05% -0.09% -0.11% -0.12%
% Change week +0.40% +0.64% +1.13% +1.34% +1.52%
% Change month +0.25% +0.34% +0.59% +0.69% +0.78%
% Change year +0.57% +0.48% +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:
Perhaps we can get some momentum going now that earnings season is underway. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice 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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Scott Grimes

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