07/31/17

Good Evening, The Dow set another record today while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 fell back. Again, the Dow failed to tell the story. Overall the current market just doesn’t have any energy. Only four of the 11 major S&P sectors were up. Breadth simply wasn’t good with the average stock making little or no progress or falling back. This market feels a little toppy but it has been like that for quite a while. For the most part I’d have to attribute this action to typical summer trading. That is to say it has no energy with a slightly negative bias. Don’t expect things to improve until after September. That of course is providing that we don’t hit any land mines such as a conflict with North Korea or tax reform failure in DC. As terrible as it may sound I consider the latter case just as damaging to the market as the first!

Anyway, here’s are the results for the day. Our TSP allotment gained +0.21%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.28%, the Nasdaq lost -0.42%, and the S&P 500 finished in the red at -0.07%.

 

Dow hits record high while tech retreats

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Neutral, I-Buy, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allotment is now +11.90% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

07/28/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3905 17.959 34.4758 44.6047 28.8016
$ Change 0.0010 0.0245 -0.0448 -0.0922 -0.0703
% Change day +0.01% +0.14% -0.13% -0.21% -0.24%
% Change week +0.04% -0.21% +0.00% -0.35% +0.22%
% Change month +0.17% +0.43% +2.13% +1.29% +2.61%
% Change year +1.34% +2.93% +11.67% +8.80% +17.07%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.0856 25.9316 29.1215 31.4711 18.1048
$ Change -0.0042 -0.0141 -0.0287 -0.0375 -0.0252
% Change day -0.02% -0.05% -0.10% -0.12% -0.14%
% Change week +0.02% +0.02% +0.01% +0.00% +0.00%
% Change month +0.58% +0.94% +1.41% +1.62% +1.81%
% Change year +3.67% +5.94% +8.52% +9.77% +10.90%

 

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: The S Fund generated an overall Neutral signal today when the PMO and MACD moved into negative configurations. This weakness is also reflected by a falling SCTR.
I Fund:
F Fund:
Our allocation held up well on a somewhat negative day. Praise God for that! Have a nice evening and I’ll see you tomorrow.
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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