Good Evening, The market traded slightly higher after several major banks kicked off earnings season with the mixed results. Market players for the most part forgot trade war worries on looked ahead to corporate reports that are anticipated to be very good. The bottom line is this, trade war concerns may be able to slow the market advance down but will likely not stop it as long as earnings are good. It’s all about the earnings! The S&P 500 sits only 2.5 percent from its Jan. 26 record closing high and is now up 4.8 percent for the year so far.
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a slight loss of -0.09%. For comparison, the Dow gained +0.38%, the Nasdaq +0.03%, and the S&P +0.11%.
The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +8.35% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest reported results.
| 07/12/18 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.7682 | 17.8824 | 39.7633 | 52.9504 | 30.2207 |
| $ Change | 0.0012 | -0.0005 | 0.3489 | 0.2758 | 0.0713 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.00% | +0.89% | +0.52% | +0.24% |
| % Change week | +0.05% | +0.03% | +1.43% | +0.43% | -0.18% |
| % Change month | +0.09% | +0.28% | +3.02% | +2.91% | +0.39% |
| % Change year | +1.47% | -1.28% | +5.72% | +9.25% | -2.06% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 19.9133 | 27.4615 | 31.6153 | 34.5293 | 20.0571 |
| $ Change | 0.0264 | 0.0569 | 0.1213 | 0.1565 | 0.1028 |
| % Change day | +0.13% | +0.21% | +0.39% | +0.46% | +0.52% |
| % Change week | +0.20% | +0.29% | +0.50% | +0.58% | +0.64% |
| % Change month | +0.53% | +0.78% | +1.38% | +1.63% | +1.83% |
| % Change year | +1.86% | +2.12% | +2.86% | +3.14% | +3.41% |
