10/26/17

Good Evening, The market had a slightly positive bias after yesterdays sell off. The major indices finished mixed with the Dow and S&P 500 slightly in the green and the Nasdaq in the red. Although the Nasdaq should be soaring tomorrow after good reports from Google and Amazon this evening. Tomorrow is an important earnings day with a gaggle of companies reporting. It should set the tone for several days to come. I’m still looking for a strong November and December. However, there are always things out there such as tax reform failing to move forward or the appointment of a New Fed Chairman that the market doesn’t like not to even mention North Korea. North Korea is always a possible disruption. I usually refer to such things as “land mines” which most of our group understand. So barring any land mines I expect to make some money in November and December. Then we’ll evaluated things again come the first of the new year.

 

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.33%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.31%, the Nasdaq dropped -0.11%, and the S&P 500 added +0.13%. Thank God for another good day.

 

Dow, S&P gain but Nasdaq dips as healthcare lags

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, F-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +14.50% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

10/25/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4734 17.9764 35.834 46.4786 29.8732
$ Change 0.0009 -0.0320 -0.1675 -0.2729 -0.0538
% Change day +0.01% -0.18% -0.47% -0.58% -0.18%
% Change week +0.03% -0.22% -0.70% -1.05% -0.32%
% Change month +0.15% -0.33% +1.60% +0.54% +0.94%
% Change year +1.89% +3.03% +16.07% +13.37% +21.43%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.3125 26.3945 29.8812 32.4104 18.7077
$ Change -0.0166 -0.0404 -0.0764 -0.0978 -0.0640
% Change day -0.09% -0.15% -0.26% -0.30% -0.34%
% Change week -0.12% -0.23% -0.40% -0.48% -0.54%
% Change month +0.34% +0.53% +0.79% +0.91% +1.01%
% Change year +4.90% +7.83% +11.35% +13.04% +14.59%

 

 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 generated an overall sell signal when it’s 20 EMA moved down though the 50 EMA with all other indicators already in negative configurations.
 Just a another week or so and things should get back to normal. So keep watching your charts! 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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Scott Grimes

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