Good Evening, The market rose again today on Christmas Cheer, a good report from Amazon, and optimism over the Phase One trade deal between the US and China. The Santa rally is on! For those of you who don’t know about the Santa Rally it’s not just a term that I made up. It is a term used by wall street to describe the trading period at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. Specifically, it refers to the last five days of the year on the first two days of the new year. Since records have been kept the S&P 500 has averaged a +1.57% gain for this period. That is the reason it is called the Santa Clause Rally! For those of you keeping tabs, we are still moving into our new home. We won’t have any furniture for another week. It’s a tough time of the year for this but that’s just the way it worked out. So here I sit in my lawn chair with my 2 ft tall plastic Christmas Tree and air mattress. I’m not complaining though. After all our Lord and Savior Jesus was born in a manger so many years ago. When you think of that way it’s really no problem at all to stay in an empty house……. Anyway, my reason for mentioning this is to remind you all again why my blogs have been so irregular the past six months. I thank God that we all survived and actually even thrived being able to finish the year strong. When all the construction is finally complete things should finally get back normal. This is our forever home. Last move…on this earth……
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment tacked on another +0.51%. For comparison, the Dow gained +0.37%, the Nasdaq +0.78%, and the S&P 500 +0.51%. Thank God for another day of gains! We’ll take it!!
The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +17.14% on the year. Here are the latest posted results:
| 12/26/19 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 16.3462 | 19.7049 | 47.3848 | 56.5053 | 32.6105 |
| $ Change | 0.0017 | 0.0070 | 0.2464 | 0.1044 | 0.0208 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.04% | +0.52% | +0.19% | +0.06% |
| % Change week | +0.03% | +0.09% | +0.60% | +0.40% | +0.16% |
| % Change month | +0.13% | -0.14% | +3.29% | +2.57% | +2.90% |
| % Change year | +2.21% | +8.61% | +31.80% | +28.49% | +22.08% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 21.1848 | 29.3069 | 34.8647 | 38.4471 | 22.496 |
| $ Change | 0.0164 | 0.0265 | 0.0677 | 0.0875 | 0.0574 |
| % Change day | +0.08% | +0.09% | +0.19% | +0.23% | +0.26% |
| % Change week | +0.12% | +0.13% | +0.26% | +0.31% | +0.34% |
| % Change month | +0.74% | +0.86% | +1.87% | +2.20% | +2.49% |
| % Change year | +7.59% | +9.38% | +17.64% | +20.74% | +23.40% |
