05/09/19

Good Evening, I’ll keep this brief tonight as I am playing bass for a 14 day revival which as you might imagine is taking up my evenings! Today we issued an alert to move our funds to the safety of the F Fund. The decision was based on the fact that some of our indicators outside of thrift reached the breaking point along with the fact that we had no trade agreement with China as of the closing bell. Given that the new tariffs on Chinese products are due to kick in at midnight tonight I didn’t want to take even the remotest chance that they would not be cancelled or delayed and allow after hours trading to destroy our hard earned profits while we were powerless to do anything about it. Of course the selling could conceivably go on throughout tomorrows session as well with no agreement. All that said, I still believe that an agreement can be reached before the midnight deadline. The Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is scheduled to have dinner with the American negotiators this evening so an agreement could be reached at that time. If that takes place we will re enter the equity market. If not we’ll stay in bonds. However given the fact that it would be Monday before we could move our TSP funds I just wasn’t willing to take  a chance that we would be fully exposed to equities with no trade agreement. Our TSP allotment closed the day with a loss of -0.30% after being down much more earlier in the session. That’s all for tonight! Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades.

 

God bless, Scott Sunglasses
 
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