09/06/18

Good Evening, It was a bifurcated market today with slow moving large cap stocks doing fine and faster moving small cap and tech stocks doing not so well. It depends on where you were at and what you owned as to how you viewed the day. The same old news was making the rounds about tariffs and trade negotiations. You can read about that in the link below. You probably already guessed from my introduction that the major indices came in mixed on the day. All considered it was the type of action we’d expect to see in September.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment fell back -0.50%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.08%, the Nasdaq lost -0.91%, and the S&P 500 gave up -0.37%. I must admit, this is what I expected in August. I guess we can suffer through a few weeks of it now.

 

Trade jitters and tech woes weigh on S&P, Nasdaq

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Sell, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +11.06% on the year not including the days results: Here are the latest posted results:

 

09/05/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.8388 17.9114 41.1589 54.2771 29.6657
$ Change 0.0013 0.0010 -0.1154 -0.2965 -0.2220
% Change day +0.01% +0.01% -0.28% -0.54% -0.74%
% Change week +0.04% -0.26% -0.44% -0.75% -1.94%
% Change month +0.04% -0.26% -0.44% -0.75% -1.94%
% Change year +1.92% -1.12% +9.44% +11.99% -3.86%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 20.0523 27.6963 32.0014 34.9996 20.3546
$ Change -0.0169 -0.0388 -0.0879 -0.1156 -0.0773
% Change day -0.08% -0.14% -0.27% -0.33% -0.38%
% Change week -0.17% -0.29% -0.57% -0.68% -0.78%
% Change month -0.17% -0.29% -0.57% -0.68% -0.78%
% Change year +2.57% +3.00% +4.12% +4.54% +4.94%

 

 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: It’s still in a bullish wedge pattern. Expect this one to accumulate before a big break out.
I Fund:
F Fund:
The trading is typical for this time of year. Of course any negative action could always be the beginning of something bigger. One of these days the market will move lower and turn into a bear. I’m on record as saying that I don’t think that time is now. That said, I always raise my level of vigilance when the market moves lower. As of today, this selling is no more than some normal corrective action. I’m not too concerned. 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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