Good Evening, You know, I really didn’t have time to do this blog as I had one of those busy days today. But I really felt like I had to praise God again for His guidance of our group. No doubt many of you are praying and He is answering our prayers. The I Fund has out performed 3 out of the last four days and if you were 100/I then you saw a sizeable gain in your TSP account. So what kind of lesson can we learn form all this? Not to loose faith when the market is tanking. Just a short time ago we came within a percent of moving into the red and it looked like everyone was going to leave us in the dust. Our charts supported by fundamental analysis told us that we had moved to the right place (100/I). Nevertheless, price was suggesting otherwise. Fortunately, we listened to our charts and not our hearts. Emotion will flat get you killed in this business. It you know something is right and the reason that you did it hasn’t changed then you need to stick with it. I will also add that if you praise God on the way up then you need to praise Him on the way down. Romans 8:28 states that “All things work to the good of them that love the Lord and are appointed to His purpose”. If you love Him then “all things” not some things work to your good. Case in point, we moved to 100 percent I Fund just about a week before it bottomed. We had dropped some cash in the S fund and now instead of following the S Fund back up we were losing even more. Doom and gloom right! But then the I fund bottomed and resumed it’s march higher based on our solid technical and fundamental analysis blowing past everything in it’s sight and it’s probably not done. So how many folks thought that all things were working to their good when the I Fund was heading lower. Some were probably thinking that only some but not all things were working to there good. However, scripture says all things and that means all things. This is one simple example of how Romans 8:28 works. What we can really take from is the word “all”. When things are really looking dark and I don’t mean just in TSP, we can remember that if we love the Lord then something good will ultimately come from it whether we see it of not!
This afternoon the market reversed course buoyed by a rebound in the price of oil with all the major indices finishing in the green. The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment had another nice gain of 1.11%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.26%, the Nasdaq +0.42%, and the S&P 500 +0.41%.
S&P 500, Nasdaq Close at New Records on Crude Rebound, Positive Jobs Report
The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allotment is now +8.00% on the year. Here are the latest posted results.
| 05/05/17 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.3108 | 17.7156 | 33.3025 | 43.3795 | 27.7982 |
| $ Change | 0.0009 | 0.0080 | 0.1363 | 0.3565 | 0.3796 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.05% | +0.41% | +0.83% | +1.38% |
| % Change week | +0.03% | -0.21% | +0.66% | +0.04% | +2.57% |
| % Change month | +0.03% | -0.21% | +0.66% | +0.04% | +2.57% |
| % Change year | +0.82% | +1.53% | +7.87% | +5.81% | +12.99% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 18.8669 | 25.4964 | 28.4407 | 30.6406 | 17.5796 |
| $ Change | 0.0301 | 0.0785 | 0.1372 | 0.1738 | 0.1134 |
| % Change day | +0.16% | +0.31% | +0.48% | +0.57% | +0.65% |
| % Change week | +0.24% | +0.45% | +0.70% | +0.82% | +0.93% |
| % Change month | +0.24% | +0.45% | +0.70% | +0.82% | +0.93% |
| % Change year | +2.48% | +4.16% | +5.98% | +6.87% | +7.68% |
