08/19/16

Good Evening, The market sold off and ended flat for another typical August day. A lot of smoke, but no fire.  I’d applaud when August comes to an end if it weren’t for the beginning of September which is not necessarily a good month for the market in it’s own right.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment added +0.15%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.12%, the Nasdaq gained +0.12%, and the S&P dropped -0.06%. Everything was pretty flat. If it’s going to do that we might as well stay in the relative safety of bonds until this trading range is resolved. While you can never count on seasonality as a sure thing when making your investment decisions, I must admit that the odds are stacked against you in August and September.

 

Wall St. little changed as biotechs offset energy drop

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/F. Our allocation is now +1.62% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results.

08/19/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.085 17.9501 29.8841 38.374 24.6606
$ Change 0.0006 -0.0356 -0.0389 -0.0198 -0.1175
% Change day +0.00% -0.20% -0.13% -0.05% -0.47%
% Change week +0.03% -0.18% +0.06% +0.31% -0.58%
% Change month +0.08% -0.29% +0.67% +0.60% +0.88%
% Change year +1.14% +5.87% +8.42% +8.91% +2.35%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.2464 24.1435 26.35 28.0832 15.945
$ Change -0.0098 -0.0258 -0.0398 -0.0487 -0.0306
% Change day -0.05% -0.11% -0.15% -0.17% -0.19%
% Change week -0.01% -0.04% -0.06% -0.07% -0.08%
% Change month +0.19% +0.34% +0.47% +0.53% +0.60%
% Change year +2.66% +4.03% +5.13% +5.69% +6.11%

 

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:
C Fund
S Fund:
S Fund
I Fund:
I Fund
F Fund:
F Fund
Just another dog day of summer. We’ll keep an eye on the charts and when they finally break one way or the other we will too. Keep praying and God will guide your hand. Have a great evening!
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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