08/02/18

Good Evening, As I said the other night, Apple (AAPL) Is a big part of many portfolios and funds. We’ve already seen what it can do for the market when Apple has a good report and that was the case again today when Apple became the first publicly traded company to reach a Trillion dollar valuation. First the tech sector partied with apple and then the rest of the market joined in. There aren’t many stocks that can pull the market up by themselves but Apple is one of them. A trillion dollar company leaves a big foot print. As a tech investor on the street I can tell you that today was quite lucrative. One more thing worth noting on the day. Small caps resumed their previous leadership status partially to do with the Apple news but largely to do with increased tariff threats as well as more heated rhetoric between the U.S. and China. Same old stuff to be sure and that’s the reason we are in the same old fund…….

Today’s trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a gain of +1.02%. For comparison, the Dow slipped -0.03%, the Nasdaq was up +1.24%, and the S&P 500 added +0.49%. Praise God and thank you Apple!

 

S&P 500, Nasdaq rise as Apple hits $1 trillion mark

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +8.09% on the year. Here are the latest posted results:

 

08/02/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.7945 17.8208 40.1942 52.8277 30.3942
$ Change 0.0013 0.0157 0.2016 0.5538 -0.3542
% Change day +0.01% +0.09% +0.50% +1.06% -1.15%
% Change week +0.05% -0.05% +0.32% +1.16% -1.71%
% Change month +0.02% -0.11% +0.40% +1.01% -1.45%
% Change year +1.63% -1.62% +6.87% +9.00% -1.50%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.964 27.55 31.7667 34.7138 20.1739
$ Change 0.0057 0.0108 0.0208 0.0275 0.0186
% Change day +0.03% +0.04% +0.07% +0.08% +0.09%
% Change week +0.00% -0.03% -0.08% -0.10% -0.11%
% Change month -0.01% -0.02% -0.04% -0.04% -0.05%
% Change year +2.11% +2.45% +3.35% +3.69% +4.01%

 

 

 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:
It was a great day. Hopefully, we can get some follow through after tomorrows jobs report. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades!
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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