12/19/17

Good Evening, Stocks took a little rest ahead of the Senate Vote for the New Tax Bill. The bill made it through the house and now awaits a vote in the Senate that may occur tonight. Some say that the tax reform bill is already priced into stocks but I still think there will be a pop when it clears the Senate. We will see. After that it will be on to the next thing, but the market won’t even determine what that is until Santa Clause comes…….

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gave up some of yesterdays gain closing out at -0.58%. For comparison, the Dow fell back -0.15%, the Nasdaq -0.44%, and the S&P 500 -0.32%. All said it was not a bad consolidation day as there was no technical damage.

 

Wall Street eases as investors look past tax revamp

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +19.67% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

12/18/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.5274 18.1026 37.8238 48.5784 30.6411
$ Change 0.0030 -0.0289 0.2029 0.5095 0.4500
% Change day +0.02% -0.16% +0.54% +1.06% +1.49%
% Change week +0.02% -0.16% +0.54% +1.06% +1.49%
% Change month +0.12% +0.41% +1.68% +0.70% +0.90%
% Change year +2.24% +3.75% +22.52% +18.50% +24.55%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.5431 26.8896 30.7521 33.5034 19.4146
$ Change 0.0361 0.0884 0.1694 0.2180 0.1444
% Change day +0.19% +0.33% +0.55% +0.65% +0.75%
% Change week +0.19% +0.33% +0.55% +0.65% +0.75%
% Change month +0.37% +0.57% +0.86% +0.99% +1.10%
% Change year +6.15% +9.85% +14.59% +16.85% +18.92%

 

 

 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: Bonds continue to be weak which is what you want to see if your in stocks!
Nothing to do now. Just let the year play out. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades!
God bless, Scott 8-)
 
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Scott Grimes

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