08/08/18

Good Evening, The day can only be described as one thing and that’s flat. It was a flat flat flat boring summer day of trading. You know what? I’ve got two positive things to say about it. The first is that flat is a whole lot better than a big loss and the second is that it could be said that this kind of action is exactly what the market needs to consolidate after the nice run we’ve had. The media blamed the day’s tepid trading on a drop in oil prices caused by a drop in demand in China as a result of the trade war.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped -0.17%. For comparison, the Dow was off -0.18%, the Nasdaq managed a slight gain of +0.06%, and the S&P 500 was pretty flat at -0.03%. Like I said, it was flat…..

 

S&P 500, Dow edge down as oil prices, trade worries weigh

The days trading left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +8.95% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

08/07/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.801 17.8431 40.6477 53.2469 30.6251
$ Change 0.0013 -0.0325 0.1151 0.1973 0.2545
% Change day +0.01% -0.18% +0.28% +0.37% +0.84%
% Change week +0.03% -0.08% +0.65% +1.02% +0.49%
% Change month +0.06% +0.02% +1.53% +1.81% -0.70%
% Change year +1.68% -1.50% +8.08% +9.86% -0.75%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 20.0104 27.6446 31.9592 34.9605 20.3352
$ Change 0.0175 0.0391 0.0862 0.1125 0.0749
% Change day +0.09% +0.14% +0.27% +0.32% +0.37%
% Change week +0.15% +0.23% +0.40% +0.48% +0.54%
% Change month +0.22% +0.33% +0.57% +0.67% +0.75%
% Change year +2.35% +2.81% +3.98% +4.43% +4.84%

 

 

 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 buy signal when the MACD moved into a postive configuration. It joins Price, the PMO, and the Williams %R along with an SCTR over 40 to generate the buy signal.
I Fund:
F Fund:
This was definitely a typical summer day of  trading on low volume. Expect more as we move into the fall. That’s all for today. 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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