11/16/17

Good Evening, Well it was another flat day for the market but another good day for us. Praise God for that! The market received a boost from a report that manufacturing production showed the biggest increase in three years. However, it was unable to pick up any steam due to concerns about retail spending and a report that Donald Trump gave classified information to the Russians. To me it’s pretty typical trading for May through August. Do we really need to listen to the news? Most of the time I feel like it just takes time away from watching the charts. The price action always tells the true story.

The days action left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment had another nice gain of +0.64%.  For comparison, the Dow was flat at -0.01%, the Nasdaq gained +0.33%, and the S&P 500 slipped -0.07%.

 

S&P 500, Dow end session flat, tech boosts Nasdaq

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Neutral, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allotment is now +8.04% on the year not including the day’s gains. Here are the latest posted results:

05/15/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3203 17.7544 33.3771 43.2694 27.8087
$ Change 0.0029 0.0019 0.1625 0.3181 0.1143
% Change day +0.02% +0.01% +0.49% +0.74% +0.41%
% Change week +0.02% +0.01% +0.49% +0.74% +0.41%
% Change month +0.09% +0.01% +0.89% -0.22% +2.61%
% Change year +0.88% +1.75% +8.11% +5.55% +13.04%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.8819 25.5183 28.4667 30.6687 17.5953
$ Change 0.0217 0.0534 0.0912 0.1148 0.0748
% Change day +0.12% +0.21% +0.32% +0.38% +0.43%
% Change week +0.12% +0.21% +0.32% +0.38% +0.43%
% Change month +0.32% +0.54% +0.80% +0.91% +1.02%
% Change year +2.56% +4.25% +6.08% +6.97% +7.78%

 

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: No two ways about it. This is the best TSP chart right now.
F Fund:

 

God continues to bless us. We just need to keep thanking Him and doing what we do. Have a great evening and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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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