Good Evening, As usual we’ve been up and down again this week, but with one notable difference. The market was able to put two back to back good days together which is something that it hasn’t done in nearly two months. The result was that despite a few days of sliding the major indices were able to hang on to post decent gains for the week and for the month. Investors sold today following the recent trend of not holding stocks through the weekend although I think many of them just chose to take some profit after today’s GDP announcement disappointed them. You can read the details about that in the news link below.
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped -0.11%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.19%, the Nasdaq -0.02% and the S&P 500 -0.19%. Our investment in the I fund has been performing well as compared to the overall market. Especially if you include Monday’s returns. I thank God for a good week!
Wall Street slips on weak GDP data, but indexes rise in April
The months action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested with 100% in the I Fund. Our allocation is now +5.38% on the year not including today’s results. Here are the latest posted results:
| 04/27/17 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.3031 | 17.7377 | 33.147 | 43.7732 | 27.125 |
| $ Change | 0.0010 | 0.0180 | 0.0220 | 0.0065 | -0.0296 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.10% | +0.07% | +0.01% | -0.11% |
| % Change week | +0.04% | -0.23% | +1.72% | +2.23% | +3.21% |
| % Change month | +0.18% | +0.72% | +1.22% | +2.11% | +2.70% |
| % Change year | +0.77% | +1.66% | +7.37% | +6.77% | +10.26% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 18.8282 | 25.404 | 28.2871 | 30.4513 | 17.4588 |
| $ Change | 0.0023 | 0.0031 | 0.0033 | 0.0034 | 0.0017 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.01% | +0.01% | +0.01% | +0.01% |
| % Change week | +0.46% | +0.89% | +1.40% | +1.64% | +1.87% |
| % Change month | +0.53% | +0.85% | +1.23% | +1.41% | +1.57% |
| % Change year | +2.27% | +3.78% | +5.41% | +6.21% | +6.94% |
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: Priced is consolidating at resistance (Marked in red).
S Fund: Small caps got hammered today which greatly effected the S Fund. The SCTR and Williams %R turned down reflecting the weakness. One thing to keep in mind concerning this or any fund containing small caps is that small caps typically underperform during the coming summer months but do quite well toward the end of the year in November and December.
I Fund: The SCTR continues to rise which bodes well for this fund!
F Fund: You can’t trust this one with an SCTR of only 17.6.
So far the I Fund is doing a satisfactory job. Foreign stock valuations are a lot cheaper after a nearly seven year bull market in the US. As long as the dollar doesn’t get to strong I expect a lot of money to be invested there. Particularly in Europe which works for us. That’s our plan! Have a great weekend and may God continue to bless your trades.
