Good Evening, The jobs report came in better than expected and spurred some buying for the day. The action was quite subdued considering how oversold the average stock really is. The news likely spurred computer programs to buy this morning. As I have repeatedly noted, August and September are slow months for the market. It seems like the aforementioned computer programs are buying every dip and selling every move up which is keeping us in a tight range. A year ago we went through an extended period just like this so if you have any vacation time on the books you might want to use it…..
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment managed another small gain of +0.13%. Folks, this time of year I’m am more than pleased just to hang onto what I got! For comparison, the Dow set another record moving up again at +0.30%, the Nasdaq was +0.18%, and the S&P 500 added +0.19%. Works for me!
The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Buy, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +13.31% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:
| 08/03/17 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.3962 | 18.0256 | 34.4901 | 44.1624 | 29.1658 |
| $ Change | 0.0010 | 0.0302 | -0.0685 | -0.1224 | 0.0518 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.17% | -0.20% | -0.28% | +0.18% |
| % Change week | +0.04% | +0.37% | +0.04% | -0.99% | +1.26% |
| % Change month | +0.02% | +0.37% | +0.11% | -0.81% | +0.99% |
| % Change year | +1.38% | +3.31% | +11.72% | +7.72% | +18.55% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 19.1051 | 25.9683 | 29.1763 | 31.5356 | 18.1434 |
| $ Change | -0.0009 | -0.0059 | -0.0140 | -0.0188 | -0.0131 |
| % Change day | +0.00% | -0.02% | -0.05% | -0.06% | -0.07% |
| % Change week | +0.10% | +0.14% | +0.19% | +0.20% | +0.21% |
| % Change month | +0.09% | +0.13% | +0.17% | +0.19% | +0.20% |
| % Change year | +3.77% | +6.09% | +8.72% | +9.99% | +11.13% |
