06/21/18

Good Evening, Trade concerns continued to present a head wind for stocks today. Also weighing on the market was a ruling by the Supreme court that will allow states to collect sales tax from online vendors that sell in their states. Companies like Amazon and EBay where down on the news. All that stuff noted, the market really seemed to be engaged in normal trading for late June through August. After all, where did you think that old saying ‘sell in may and go away’ originated from in the first place? So I really won’t be surprise if we continue to thrash around like this until October or November. As usual, my goal for this season is to hang onto what I got and hopefully add just a little to it before things pick up again in late fall.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allocation fell -0.97%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.80%, the Nasdaq -0.88%, and the S&P 500 -0.63%.

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Buy, I-Sell, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +8.77% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

06/20/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.7409 17.7615 39.2813 53.1594 30.2728
$ Change 0.0013 -0.0291 0.0672 0.3585 0.1409
% Change day +0.01% -0.16% +0.17% +0.68% +0.47%
% Change week +0.04% -0.06% -0.44% +0.85% -1.42%
% Change month +0.16% -0.50% +2.39% +4.20% -0.65%
% Change year +1.29% -1.95% +4.44% +9.68% -1.89%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.8559 27.3768 31.4778 34.3665 19.9586
$ Change 0.0123 0.0289 0.0620 0.0815 0.0550
% Change day +0.06% +0.11% +0.20% +0.24% +0.28%
% Change week -0.08% -0.16% -0.32% -0.37% -0.42%
% Change month +0.43% +0.64% +1.08% +1.27% +1.45%
% Change year +1.56% +1.81% +2.41% +2.65% +2.90%

 

 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: The  C Fund generated an overall Neutral signal when the PMO and MACD moved into negative configurations.
S Fund:
I Fund:
F Fund:
No real surprises today. It may be dull this time of year, but keep watching your charts. 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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