09/21/17

Good Evening, September 25 through October 7th is historically the worst time of the year for stocks and the days leading up to that aren’t much better. That doesn’t mean you can’t make money during this time. Only that the chances of success are greatly diminished. That said our charts are good and we’re still in an uptrend with the indices all very close record highs. There’s no reason panic here. Although, I won’t be surprised if things are very choppy for the next week or two. The media excuse for all this is the threat of higher rates from the Fed. Is there anybody out there who didn’t already think there was a high probability of a rate change in December??  That’s what I thought. If I could fast forward to November 1st right now I would do it!

The days slow trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped back -0.20%. For comparison, the Dow fell -0.24%, the Nasdaq -0.52%, and the S&P 500 -0.30%.

 

Wall Street pushed down by rate expectations, North Korea, Apple

The days 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 +14.49% on the year. Here are the latest posted results.

 

09/21/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4416 18.0385 34.9949 45.2755 29.4688
$ Change 0.0009 0.0029 -0.1057 -0.0907 -0.1808
% Change day +0.01% +0.02% -0.30% -0.20% -0.61%
% Change week +0.04% -0.23% +0.02% +0.66% +0.28%
% Change month +0.12% -0.46% +1.27% +2.11% +2.08%
% Change year +1.68% +3.38% +13.35% +10.44% +19.78%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.2057 26.1621 29.4802 31.9078 18.3813
$ Change -0.0136 -0.0367 -0.0684 -0.0875 -0.0573
% Change day -0.07% -0.14% -0.23% -0.27% -0.31%
% Change week +0.05% +0.08% +0.12% +0.14% +0.17%
% Change month +0.39% +0.66% +1.03% +1.20% +1.37%
% Change year +4.32% +6.88% +9.85% +11.29% +12.59%

 

 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: The F Fund continues to slide. The money moving out of bonds must go somewhere and that’s usually stocks!
All we can do is suffer this season of he market until it’s over. The charts are still great so there’s no reason to make any changes at this time. That’ s all for tonight!  Have a great 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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Scott Grimes

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