06/29/18

Good Evening, I know there’s a big weekend coming up so I’ll keep this brief. Stocks reversed roles on the last trading day of a wild month that saw two 1000 point selloffs in the Dow. Today it was small caps and tech that lagged while big caps and financials picked up to lead the major indices to modest gains. It was a classic case of profits being taken from the high flyers and reinvested into stocks that were recently beat up.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment was flat at +0.01%. For comparison, the Dow gained +0.23%, the Nasdaq +0.09%, and the S&P 500 +0.08%. Thank God for another day in the green.

 

Nike, banks power Wall Street to biggest gain in three weeks

 

The months action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Sell, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +5.27% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results.

 

06/28/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.7508 17.8268 38.5667 51.4459 29.8007
$ Change 0.0012 -0.0168 0.2416 0.2532 0.0041
% Change day +0.01% -0.09% +0.63% +0.49% +0.01%
% Change week +0.05% +0.31% -1.39% -2.21% -2.04%
% Change month +0.22% -0.13% +0.53% +0.85% -2.20%
% Change year +1.35% -1.59% +2.54% +6.15% -3.42%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.792 27.2141 31.1151 33.889 19.6383
$ Change 0.0168 0.0382 0.0786 0.1013 0.0668
% Change day +0.08% +0.14% +0.25% +0.30% +0.34%
% Change week -0.29% -0.52% -1.01% -1.21% -1.40%
% Change month +0.11% +0.04% -0.08% -0.13% -0.18%
% Change year +1.23% +1.20% +1.23% +1.23% +1.25%

 

 

 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:
For now we remain in a holding pattern. This trade war thing is going to give the “Dog Days” of summer a whole new meaning. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!
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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