10/26/16

Good Evening, There is only so many ways to write the same thing. Even in a short blog like this! For going on four months now the market has been in the same trading range. It has frustrated most if not all investors. Today it fell right smack dab back into the middle of the established trading range which for the S&P 500 is roughly between 2111 and 2160. Anything that’s made is lost and anything that’s lost is gained back over and over again…. Anyway, todays excuse was the price of oil. You can read about it in the news link I have provided below. As I have already often repeated, it is my belief that we may break out of this trading range after the election which is on November 8th. The way I see it, that is another reason to look forward to the end of this dreadful campaign season!

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment fell back -0.60%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.17%, the Nasdaq lost -0.63%, and the S&P 500 gave up -0.17%.

 

Wall Street Ends in Red as Crude Closes at Three-Week Low

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +0.24% not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

10/25/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.1289 17.9017 29.4204 37.7916 24.3341
$ Change 0.0006 0.0027 -0.1110 -0.3170 -0.0298
% Change day +0.00% +0.02% -0.38% -0.83% -0.12%
% Change week +0.02% -0.07% +0.10% -0.26% -0.09%
% Change month +0.11% -0.40% -1.05% -2.59% -1.76%
% Change year +1.43% +5.58% +6.74% +7.25% +0.99%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.2304 24.0265 26.1279 27.794 15.7538
$ Change -0.0126 -0.0369 -0.0609 -0.0768 -0.0502
% Change day -0.07% -0.15% -0.23% -0.28% -0.32%
% Change week +0.01% +0.00% -0.01% -0.01% -0.02%
% Change month -0.24% -0.60% -0.94% -1.12% -1.28%
% Change year +2.57% +3.52% +4.25% +4.60% +4.84%

 

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
Nothings changed. We’re still waiting for the election. 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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