04/26/18

Good Evening, The struggle continued today.You have geopolitical concerns, concerns about the 10 year treasury bond yield rising, and tariff worries on one side and some of the best earnings we’ve seen in years on the other. Today’s victor was earnings buoyed by a resurgence in tech following stellar reports from Facebook and Intel. The party continued into after hours trading with a total blowout report from Amazon. Fridays have been kind of rough lately but the Amazon report should give us some momentum going into tomorrows opening bell. The question is can it carry though to tomorrows closing bell? We will see……

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a gain of +0.54%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.99%, the Nasdaq +1.64%, and the S&P 500 +1.04%. Praise God for the good day!

 

Wall Street gains on strong earnings, tech resurgence

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now -0.03% on the year not including the days gains. Here are the latest posted results:

 

04/25/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.672 17.6364 37.336 48.8583 30.9015
$ Change 0.0012 -0.0368 0.0688 -0.0955 -0.2434
% Change day +0.01% -0.21% +0.18% -0.20% -0.78%
% Change week +0.04% -0.38% -1.15% -1.11% -0.89%
% Change month +0.19% -1.21% +0.04% +0.70% +1.25%
% Change year +0.85% -2.64% -0.73% +0.81% +0.15%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6469 26.9771 30.7578 33.4581 19.3671
$ Change -0.0077 -0.0171 -0.0348 -0.0455 -0.0301
% Change day -0.04% -0.06% -0.11% -0.14% -0.16%
% Change week -0.21% -0.36% -0.66% -0.79% -0.89%
% Change month +0.17% +0.18% +0.29% +0.33% +0.38%
% Change year +0.49% +0.32% +0.07% -0.06% -0.15%

 

 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:
It was a nice bounce today. Our allocation under performed on the day, but it was just that, one day. I cannot see large caps beating us in this environment. We’ll have to keep a close eye on our charts to make sure that this trend does not continue. My thought is that large caps were beat up a little more so they bounced a little harder today. 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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