11/17/17

Good Evening, The market took a day off to consolidate after yesterdays big run, but not small caps. No Sir, the Russell 2000 added another +0.46% as small caps pointed the way up. The media blamed the debate over the GOP tax bill for the weakness. While that may be partially true, in reality the market was just undergoing some healthy consolidation after a nice rally before a holiday week that is historically a very good week for stocks. If you ask me, things are setting up for a nice run and small caps are confirming it. They led the way down and barring a disaster they’ll lead the way back up.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment bucked the trend and added +0.45%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.43%, the Nasdaq -0.15%, and the S&P 500 -0.26%. Praise God we carried the day!

 

Wall Street pulls back at week’s end with tax changes mulled

The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +15.07% on the year not including the day’s results. Here are the latest posted results.

 

11/16/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4952 18.0425 36.2957 46.7103 29.8401
$ Change 0.0010 -0.0173 0.3062 0.5587 0.1854
% Change day +0.01% -0.10% +0.85% +1.21% +0.63%
% Change week +0.05% -0.15% +0.15% +0.65% -0.76%
% Change month +0.10% -0.03% +0.57% -0.36% -0.70%
% Change year +2.03% +3.41% +17.57% +13.94% +21.29%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.3663 26.4946 30.0391 32.6019 18.8279
$ Change 0.0319 0.0796 0.1529 0.1966 0.1298
% Change day +0.17% +0.30% +0.51% +0.61% +0.69%
% Change week +0.01% +0.00% -0.02% -0.03% -0.04%
% Change month +0.09% +0.08% +0.06% +0.04% +0.03%
% Change year +5.19% +8.24% +11.94% +13.71% +15.33%

 

 

 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:
It feels good to be in the right place and today we were in the right place. So far everything is in line with our analysis. Praise God for that! That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!
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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