07/29/19

Good Evening, Investors stopped most of their buying and stood back and watched as they await what they think will be a quarter point rate cut from the Fed on Wednesday. I also think there will be a quarter point cut. More than a quarter point and the market will party. Less than a quarter point and it will sell off. A quarter point will bring either a modest continuation of the current rally or a sell the news reaction. Either way, stocks will eventually continue to move up with a quarter point cut. If you have a moderate to long time horizon you should should be fine either way. If you have a short time horizon then you might want to forgo taking a chance on this deal. While there is indeed a significant chance that there will be a cut, nothing is certain in this business. Bottom line, if a market moving event is on the horizon always make sure you portfolio has time to recover if it goes against you……

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment fell -0.16%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.11%, the Nasdaq gave up -0.44%, and the S&P 500 slipped -0.16%. It was not a money making day but no real damage was done.

 

Wall St. takes a pause in wait for Fed news, trade progress

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +13.15% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:
07/26/19 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 16.2217 19.2472 43.8802 53.8984 30.4527
$ Change 0.0009 -0.0013 0.3217 0.5320 -0.0668
% Change day +0.01% -0.01% +0.74% +1.00% -0.22%
% Change week +0.04% -0.03% +1.66% +2.07% -0.19%
% Change month +0.15% -0.02% +2.97% +2.58% -0.37%
% Change year +1.43% +6.09% +22.05% +22.56% +14.00%
L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 20.714 28.586 33.2672 36.4273 21.1906
$ Change 0.0197 0.0343 0.0879 0.1151 0.0766
% Change day +0.10% +0.12% +0.26% +0.32% +0.36%
% Change week +0.25% +0.31% +0.65% +0.77% +0.88%
% Change month +0.47% +0.58% +1.09% +1.28% +1.43%
% Change year +5.20% +6.69% +12.25% +14.40% +16.24%

 

 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:
It’s all about the FED now and they will make their announcement on Wednesday at 2:00 PM EDT. We’ve waited over a month for this day to come. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades.
God bless, Scott Sunglasses
 
 ***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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