07/11/17

Good Evening, It was another flat summer day of trading. However, it was not without a little drama. President Donald Trump’s oldest son released E-mails where he corresponded with a Russian attorney that offered political dirt on Hillary Clinton. Folks, you couldn’t make this stuff up any better. They need to spin off a new TV series from this news. By the way, my only reason for mentioning any of this is the way that it effects the market. I can’t help it if the market trades off of political stuff. Personally, I’d prefer to talk about anything else. Nonetheless, the market sold off on the news. But alas, it wasn’t even an hour before the dip buyers stepped back in to drive it back up with a tailwind from later breaking news that Mitch McConnell delayed the Senates summer break by two weeks in order to make progress on the Republican agenda. In market speak, that means that the senate may be getting closer to working on tax relief and believe me, that’s the make or break issue for this market.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment added +0.23%. For comparison, the Dow was flat at 0.00%, the Nasdaq gained +0.27%, and the S&P 500 lost -0.08%. Thank God for giving this group another good day!

 

Wall Street ends flat as politics drive stocks

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. No, I don’t just like to write Neutral all the time! The signals are a reflection of the tug a war that’s going on between the bulls and the bears. Neither one is able to gain any ground so the signals remain neutral…. We are currently invested with 100% in the I Fund. Our allocation is now +8.91% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

07/10/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3734 17.8418 33.8356 43.8352 28.034
$ Change 0.0029 0.0262 0.0315 -0.1320 0.0947
% Change day +0.02% +0.15% +0.09% -0.30% +0.34%
% Change week +0.02% +0.15% +0.09% -0.30% +0.34%
% Change month +0.06% -0.22% +0.23% -0.45% -0.13%
% Change year +1.23% +2.26% +9.60% +6.93% +13.95%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.982 25.6979 28.7215 30.9711 17.783
$ Change 0.0085 0.0157 0.0230 0.0269 0.0161
% Change day +0.04% +0.06% +0.08% +0.09% +0.09%
% Change week +0.04% +0.06% +0.08% +0.09% +0.09%
% Change month +0.04% +0.03% +0.02% +0.01% +0.00%
% Change year +3.11% +4.98% +7.03% +8.02% +8.93%

 

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: This one still has the best SCTR of the group. That tells us that it has the most internal strength.
F Fund:
Right now we’re just grinding it out. If God continues to bless us we’ll get through the slow season and tack some more gains on this fall. Keep praying! That’s all for tonight. Have a great evening!
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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