12/30/13

Good Evening,

I had a little situation with my garage door this evening. I didn’t get in until 9:30 PM Central time so I will keep this somewhat short. That’s about all there is to talk about anyway. Today was another low volume holiday trading day. Although technically we still have a couple days left for the Santa Rally I think that most of the market players did so well so early in the Santa Rally that they are closing their books and calling it a year. For the most part, it seems that they are just satisfied to close near the highs of the year and not give anything up.

 

Dow posts 51st closing record of 2013

 

 

The day’s action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Sell. Our current allocation is 42/C, 58/S. It has earned +20.82% since 03/11/13. Here are the latest posted results:
12/30/13
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 14.2861 15.7607 23.7795 33.5305 25.5366
$ Change 0.0027 0.0320 -0.0027 0.0208 0.0627
% Change day +0.02% +0.20% -0.01% +0.06% +0.25%
% Change week +0.02% +0.20% -0.01% +0.06% +0.25%
% Change month +0.19% -0.44% +2.13% +2.51% +1.40%
% Change year +1.88% -1.56% +31.92% +37.77% +22.00%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 16.8059 21.7607 23.411 24.7753 14.0261
$ Change 0.0065 0.0138 0.0172 0.0201 0.0125
% Change day +0.04% +0.06% +0.07% +0.08% +0.09%
% Change week +0.04% +0.06% +0.07% +0.08% +0.09%
% Change month +0.52% +1.09% +1.35% +1.53% +1.71%
% Change year +6.91% +15.84% +19.91% +22.94% +25.86%
I know, I know… the I fund has been picking up the pace lately, but it is still a percent or so behind our other equity based funds on the month. We’ll give it a look if it keeps up at its current pace next month. It’s late and I’ve got to go. Let’s see what the last trading day of the year has to bring us. Have a nice evening. May God continue to bless your trades!
 Scott8-)

 



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Scott Grimes

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