09/15/17

Good Evening, The market faded in the early going and then came back strong after dip buyers stepped in as they have done for so long now. Again those that panicked and sold were punished. While the rally wasn’t exactly furious the market did move in the right direction. In the end the uptrend remained intact. I guess you can put your portfolio in ice if you fear nuclear war or any of the other myriad of geopolitical situations that exist, but how long can you wait? It seems like this dude is going to fire a missile a week just because he can. I’m just as frustrated with it as you all are, but I refuse to worry about things I can’t change. That must be pretty much how the market views things as well given the way it has shrugged off the storms and missiles and terrorist attacks. Or, here’s a thought, have these things just become so common that no one even notices them anymore? Now there’s a question to ponder…..

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment added +0.09%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.29%, the Nasdaq +0.30%, and the S&P 500 +0.18%.

 

Wall Street hits record highs, S&P 500 pierces 2,500

The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-buy, S-buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +13.87% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

09/14/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4354 18.0802 34.9185 44.8077 29.3087
$ Change 0.0009 0.0053 -0.0271 -0.0330 -0.0907
% Change day +0.01% +0.03% -0.08% -0.07% -0.31%
% Change week +0.03% -0.50% +1.43% +1.68% +0.29%
% Change month +0.08% -0.23% +1.05% +1.05% +1.52%
% Change year +1.64% +3.62% +13.10% +9.30% +19.13%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.186 26.1166 29.3995 31.8048 18.3127
$ Change -0.0045 -0.0131 -0.0255 -0.0329 -0.0218
% Change day -0.02% -0.05% -0.09% -0.10% -0.12%
% Change week +0.22% +0.42% +0.68% +0.80% +0.92%
% Change month +0.29% +0.49% +0.75% +0.88% +0.99%
% Change year +4.21% +6.70% +9.55% +10.93% +12.17%

 

 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:
Nothing really new and earth shattering to add here. It’s all pretty cut and dried. We need to keep watching our charts and wait for a change. Right now the trend is still up. Oh yeah, we need to keep praying as well. I we have any success we owe it all to God. That’s all for tonight. Have a great weekend!
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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