05/10/17

Good Evening, The market weakened today on news that President Trump fired the FBI Director. To be honest with you, the market really wasn’t concerned with the firing. It was concerned with the fact that the firing was a distraction from what is really near and dear to it’s heart, tax reform.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a small gain of +0.15%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.16%, the Nasdaq gained +0.14%, and the S&P 500 +0.11%.

 

Wall Street mixed after Trump fires FBI head; Nasdaq hits record high

 

The days 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 +7.04% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

05/09/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3146 17.6785 33.2741 43.1666 27.5516
$ Change 0.0009 -0.0220 -0.0326 -0.0074 -0.0887
% Change day +0.01% -0.12% -0.10% -0.02% -0.32%
% Change week +0.02% -0.21% -0.09% -0.49% -0.89%
% Change month +0.06% -0.42% +0.58% -0.45% +1.66%
% Change year +0.84% +1.32% +7.78% +5.29% +11.99%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.8535 25.4575 28.3699 30.5497 17.5201
$ Change -0.0063 -0.0164 -0.0285 -0.0358 -0.0230
% Change day -0.03% -0.06% -0.10% -0.12% -0.13%
% Change week -0.07% -0.15% -0.25% -0.30% -0.34%
% Change month +0.17% +0.30% +0.45% +0.52% +0.59%
% Change year +2.41% +4.00% +5.72% +6.55% +7.32%

 

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: Price is consolidating at close to 65.
F Fund: The lower trend line is now moving lower.
Nothing really changed today. We’ll see what happens tomorrow. As we get into the summer months remember that the market often doesn’t move with a lot of gusto! But even if it’s a yawner that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep an eye on the charts. Have a nice evening!
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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