04/21/16

Good Evening, Techs took the market down early and it never really recovered finishing the day mixed. It seems that investors were disappointed with Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Microsoft and Starbucks. All three companies made money, but were priced for perfection which investors decided that they didn’t get. Tech in particular was punished for this transgression…..

The days wild ride left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment finished flat at 0.00%. For comparison the Dow was up slightly at +0.12%, the Nasdaq lost -0.80% which is no surprise, and the S&P 500 finished flat at 0.00%.

 

Wall Street ends flat; Alphabet and Microsoft tumble

 

The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +4.85% on the year not including the days results. Here the latest posted results:

04/21/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.0029 17.4925 28.4003 35.6896 24.543
$ Change 0.0007 -0.0062 -0.1477 -0.1864 0.0276
% Change day +0.00% -0.04% -0.52% -0.52% +0.11%
% Change week +0.03% -0.37% +0.53% +0.40% +2.09%
% Change month +0.10% +0.04% +1.64% +2.01% +4.19%
% Change year +0.59% +3.17% +3.04% +1.29% +1.86%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 17.9849 23.5911 25.5655 27.1464 15.3651
$ Change -0.0116 -0.0353 -0.0539 -0.0667 -0.0428
% Change day -0.06% -0.15% -0.21% -0.25% -0.28%
% Change week +0.19% +0.44% +0.61% +0.71% +0.81%
% Change month +0.57% +1.17% +1.61% +1.86% +2.10%
% Change year +1.19% +1.65% +2.00% +2.16% +2.25%

 

Just  a quick update on the week. We’ll keep watching the S Fund. If it continues to perform at the level that it performed this week we may consider allocated some funds there. Have a nice weekend!

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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