Good Evening, The price of oil moved up today and the market moved up (slightly) with it. The culprit was Saudi Arabia’s crown prince who moved to consolidate his power with several arrests for corruption. The market reaction was because the action by the crown prince could possibly disrupt the flow of oil. Corruption, consolidation of power….OK. Anyway the other driving force for today’s market was the proposed merger between tech giants Broadcom and Qualcom. Boradcom offered to buy Qualcom for 103 billion. The end result was that both issues barely moved the major indices. However, they did manage move them to records which as usual the media found exciting.
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a gain of +0.28%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.04%, the Nasdaq +0.33% and the S&P 500 +0.13%. Thank God for another good day!
The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +15.34% for the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:
| 11/03/17 |
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Prior Prices |
| Fund |
G Fund |
F Fund |
C Fund |
S Fund |
I Fund |
| Price |
15.4821 |
18.077 |
36.2743 |
46.8185 |
30.1451 |
| $ Change |
0.0010 |
0.0040 |
0.1152 |
0.0675 |
-0.0789 |
| % Change day |
+0.01% |
+0.02% |
+0.32% |
+0.14% |
-0.26% |
| % Change week |
+0.04% |
+0.44% |
+0.29% |
-0.25% |
+0.92% |
| % Change month |
+0.02% |
+0.16% |
+0.51% |
-0.13% |
+0.31% |
| % Change year |
+1.94% |
+3.60% |
+17.50% |
+14.20% |
+22.53% |
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L INC |
L 2020 |
L 2030 |
L 2040 |
L 2050 |
| Price |
19.368 |
26.5144 |
30.0915 |
32.6738 |
18.8768 |
| $ Change |
0.0058 |
0.0129 |
0.0228 |
0.0284 |
0.0182 |
| % Change day |
+0.03% |
+0.05% |
+0.08% |
+0.09% |
+0.10% |
| % Change week |
+0.14% |
+0.20% |
+0.29% |
+0.32% |
+0.35% |
| % Change month |
+0.10% |
+0.15% |
+0.23% |
+0.26% |
+0.29% |
| % Change year |
+5.20% |
+8.32% |
+12.13% |
+13.96% |
+15.63% |
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 buy signal when the MACD moved into a positive configuration. For those of you who are new and may be wondering what the heck I’m talking about, we generally call a chart neutral (or hold) when two of our indicators are in negative configurations. We call it a sell when four are negative. Also, just one caveat, we will never call a chart a buy unless the SCTR is higher than 40.
F Fund: The F Fund is still classified as neutral even though four indicators Price, PMO, MACD, and WM%R are in positive configurations. In our system the SCTR must also be 40 or higher before a chart can generate a buy signal. The SCTR for the F Fund is currently only 23.
Nothing new to add here. We just need to keep watching the charts. Have a great evening and may God continue to bless your trades.
God bless, Scott 
***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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