11/01/18

Good Evening, I looked at over 300 charts today and I’m going to go out on a limb and proclaim that a bottom is in. That doesn’t mean that the market will not go down though. By the matter of fact it looks like tomorrow will be a rough day. Apple (AAPL) reported after the bell and issued poor guidance. Apple is the most valuable company in the world. So when they have a bad day everyone else has one with them. I’ll be more than surprised if the market can find the green. Today was another story though as the market rallied on good earnings and renewed trade optimism. That made the third straight day that the major indices finished in the green. It pays to keep the faith!

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a wonderful gain of +2.04%. No, that’s not a typo. Small caps finally behaved the way they should! For comparison, the Dow added +1.06%, the Nasdaq +1.75% and the S&P 500 1.06%. Praise Jesus for a great day!

 

Wall Street climbs for third day, Apple falls after the bell

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 -1.35% for the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

10/31/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.9106 17.7065 38.7315 48.3193 28.1036
$ Change 0.0013 -0.0403 0.4173 0.4774 0.4093
% Change day +0.01% -0.23% +1.09% +1.00% +1.48%
% Change week +0.04% -0.45% +2.01% +2.21% +2.11%
% Change month +0.26% -0.78% -6.84% -10.06% -7.94%
% Change year +2.38% -2.26% +2.98% -0.30% -8.92%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.8478 27.2143 30.7742 33.3614 19.2527
$ Change 0.0462 0.0968 0.2158 0.2785 0.1829
% Change day +0.23% +0.36% +0.71% +0.84% +0.96%
% Change week +0.42% +0.63% +1.23% +1.46% +1.67%
% Change month -1.40% -2.24% -4.60% -5.54% -6.35%
% Change year +1.52% +1.21% +0.12% -0.35% -0.74%

 

 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: The I Fund generated an overall Neutral signal when the MACD moved into a positive configuration. Two or more negative signals or the 5 EMA below the 50 EMA or 200 EMA  or an SCTR below 40 generate a neutral signal. Any three indicators negative accompanied by both or either the 5 EMA below the 50 EMA or 200 EMA or an SCTR below 40 generate a sell signal. A buy signal is generated then the 5 EMA is above the 50 EMA and the 200 EMA, One or less indicators are negative, and the SCTR is higher than 40.
F Fund:
Tomorrow we’ll be back in the green. It won’t be straight up mind you, but we should rally into 2019. I praise God for that. 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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