05/22/18

Good Evening, The 2nd of the 3 T’s (Trade) got us today. Negative comments were made about trade negotiations with China and that’s all the market needed to give up it’s gains from yesterday. Its funny, this time last year the market was oblivious to news one way or the other but now the market seems totally driven by it. At least by the negative headlines anyway……

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment dropped -0.63%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.72%, the Nasdaq -0.21%, and the S&P 500 -0.31%.

 

Wall St. slips on U.S.-China trade talk uncertainty; energy falls

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 +4.76% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results.

 

05/21/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.7037 17.6304 38.7317 51.1959 31.3716
$ Change 0.0037 0.0046 0.2851 0.3567 0.0334
% Change day +0.02% +0.03% +0.74% +0.70% +0.11%
% Change week +0.02% +0.03% +0.74% +0.70% +0.11%
% Change month +0.16% -0.52% +3.39% +5.22% +0.76%
% Change year +1.05% -2.68% +2.98% +5.63% +1.67%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.802 27.2998 31.3819 34.2545 19.8891
$ Change 0.0254 0.0540 0.1066 0.1365 0.0894
% Change day +0.13% +0.20% +0.34% +0.40% +0.45%
% Change week +0.13% +0.20% +0.34% +0.40% +0.45%
% Change month +0.66% +1.02% +1.77% +2.09% +2.38%
% Change year +1.29% +1.52% +2.10% +2.32% +2.54%

 

 

 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:
The market will continue to trade off this China trade news. We knew that going into the summer. It is still my belief that China is making way too much money to give up on this cash cow. So I think that ultimately we’ll have some sort of agreement. Until then the market will continue thrash up and down on every rumor and headline. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice 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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Scott Grimes

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