Good Evening, Stocks started off the day in the red on continued trade war concerns prompting the dip buyers to give it a go. However, after a failed bounce a lot of traders packed up and left for the 4th of July holiday. Nevertheless, those remaining at their desks where rewarded with a nice surge in technology during the afternoon session. There seems to be a recurring theme of investing in tech in order to maintain market exposure while lessening trade war related risk. Works for me as I’m mostly a tech investor on the street. That’s the reason I rolled my money out of Thrift. The investment opportunities on the street are just hands down better. My portfolio posted a gain of 2.5% today. I’m not bragging. I only want to give you an example of what you can do outside of Thrift. Your probably thinking that I don’t do that often but the truth is that I do. If you are invested well and manage your positions closely you can make more and keep more. Of course if you can’t, don’t feel comfortable, or just plain would rather spend your time doing something else there are financial advisers that can assist you for a reasonable fee. If you choose to go that route I strongly recommend that you interview several advisers to find the one that will work best for you and most importantly one that will grow your portfolio. In the event that you don’t know where to start I work closely with a Christian broker that helps a lot of government employees. He advises folks in our group for no charge and is happy to help anyone that needs it. Just refer to my message the end of the blog and I’ll be more than happy to have him give you a call. The only reason I mentioned this is that I remember what a daunting task it was to plan my retirement even though I was already an active investor. So I really can’t imagine what it would be like for someone who is not.
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.49%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.15%, the Nasdaq +0.76%, and the S&P 500 +0.31%. Praise God for another good day!
The days 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 +5.29% on the year not including the day’s gains. Here are the latest posted results:
| 06/29/18 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.7533 | 17.833 | 38.5985 | 51.4551 | 30.1039 |
| $ Change | 0.0025 | 0.0062 | 0.0318 | 0.0092 | 0.3032 |
| % Change day | +0.02% | +0.03% | +0.08% | +0.02% | +1.02% |
| % Change week | +0.06% | +0.35% | -1.31% | -2.19% | -1.05% |
| % Change month | +0.24% | -0.10% | +0.61% | +0.86% | -1.20% |
| % Change year | +1.37% | -1.56% | +2.63% | +6.17% | -2.44% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 19.8087 | 27.2494 | 31.1841 | 33.977 | 19.6957 |
| $ Change | 0.0167 | 0.0353 | 0.0690 | 0.0880 | 0.0574 |
| % Change day | +0.08% | +0.13% | +0.22% | +0.26% | +0.29% |
| % Change week | -0.20% | -0.40% | -0.79% | -0.96% | -1.11% |
| % Change month | +0.19% | +0.17% | +0.14% | +0.13% | +0.12% |
| % Change year | +1.32% | +1.34% | +1.46% | +1.49% | +1.54% |
