07/06/17

Good Evening, Owe, today hurt, but it didn’t hurt us as much as it did the broad market. Today, the market sold off on concerns about the situation with North Korea and about a possible trade war with Europe. If you remember in one of my previous blogs I talked about possible land mines that could derail the current rally and North Korea was an example that I used. I’m not saying that the rally has flown off the rails just yet, but one never knows when a selloff like today is the start of a more significant downturn. The thing to watch is to see if the now longstanding pattern of bouncing back in a V Shaped fashion is still in play. I’d give it two days to bounce back before I’d consider the possibility that the pattern has been broken. That said, we have the jobs report tomorrow and good results could fuel a comeback. Poor results would significantly decrease those chances. As usual, we’ll keep a close eye on our charts. After all that’s the reason we have them. On the positive side, the I Fund held up relatively well as compared to the major indices. We’ll see if foreign stocks feel the pinch tomorrow or if they just sit this one out.

Here are the day’s results: Our TSP allotment dropped -0.45%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.74%, the Nasdaq -1.00%, and the S&P 500 -0.94%. Small caps were even worse with the IWM suffering a -1.31% set back. This was one of those days when there was no place to hide. No safe haven…..

 

Tesla Destruction Takes Down Nasdaq, North Korea Troubles Wall Street

 

The days selling left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +9.08% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

07/05/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3686 17.8624 33.894 44.1288 28.0778
$ Change 0.0019 0.0151 0.0557 -0.1574 -0.0591
% Change day +0.01% +0.08% +0.16% -0.36% -0.21%
% Change week +0.03% -0.11% +0.40% +0.21% +0.03%
% Change month +0.03% -0.11% +0.40% +0.21% +0.03%
% Change year +1.20% +2.37% +9.79% +7.64% +14.13%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.988 25.7188 28.7644 31.0279 17.8211
$ Change 0.0019 0.0008 -0.0025 -0.0052 -0.0046
% Change day +0.01% +0.00% -0.01% -0.02% -0.03%
% Change week +0.07% +0.12% +0.17% +0.19% +0.21%
% Change month +0.07% +0.12% +0.17% +0.19% +0.21%
% Change year +3.14% +5.07% +7.19% +8.22% +9.16%

 

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:
I’m a reactive trader but if I had to venture a guess I would say that it’s going to bounce tomorrow. Have a nice evening and keep praying. God will bless your hand!
God bless, Scott 8-)
 
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Scott Grimes

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