08/25/17

Good Evening, The market was mixed today as the Dow and S&P 500 posted small gains and the Nasdaq finishing slightly in the red. However, all three indexes did manage gains of around 0.70% for the week. Neither Janet Yellen or Mario Draghi had anything earth shattering to say today so the the market resumed it’s summer churning. That’s really it. Now we will wait for the next market moving event to take place which will most assuredly be an attempt to pass tax reform on capital hill.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a gain of +0.60%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.14%, the Nasdaq slipped -0.09%, and the S&P 500 was up +0.17%.

 

Wall Street rises modestly following Yellen speech

The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +11.48% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

08/24/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4161 18.0573 34.0786 43.4287 28.6945
$ Change 0.0009 -0.0173 -0.0698 0.0715 -0.0278
% Change day +0.01% -0.10% -0.20% +0.16% -0.10%
% Change week +0.04% +0.05% +0.57% +1.09% +0.18%
% Change month +0.15% +0.55% -1.08% -2.46% -0.64%
% Change year +1.51% +3.49% +10.38% +5.93% +16.64%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.0731 25.8541 28.9412 31.2277 17.9377
$ Change -0.0048 -0.0123 -0.0218 -0.0269 -0.0169
% Change day -0.03% -0.05% -0.08% -0.09% -0.09%
% Change week +0.14% +0.23% +0.35% +0.40% +0.46%
% Change month -0.08% -0.31% -0.63% -0.79% -0.93%
% Change year +3.60% +5.62% +7.85% +8.92% +9.87%

 

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:

 

That’s all for tonight. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you Monday!

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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