10/04/17

Good Evening, It was another emotionless trading day as the market moved ever so slowly higher. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. It is moving up! It seems like the bears aren’t even trying to offer up reasons why the market should drop. It’s almost like they have been beaten into submission by the endless new records. At least for the meantime. The recent pattern has been that the market will undergo a slow period as it sets up for another leg up and that’s exactly what it feels like to me right now. My charts don’t show it dropping and the strongest season for stocks is upon us. Taking into consideration that nuclear weapons and mass shootings have had no effect on things to date I’d have to say that it’s going to take something pretty drastic to derail this train.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped back -0.01%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.09%, the Nasdaq +0.04%, and the S&P 500 +0.12%. It was a pretty flat day but I thank God that we were able to hang onto our previous gains.

 

Wall St. extends run of record highs; services data upbeat

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +15.22% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

10/03/17 Prior Prices
G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4524 18.0452 35.4832 46.7725 29.6579
$ Change 0.0010 0.0099 0.0781 0.1145 0.0979
% Change day +0.01% +0.05% +0.22% +0.25% +0.33%
% Change week +0.02% +0.05% +0.61% +1.18% +0.21%
% Change month +0.02% +0.05% +0.61% +1.18% +0.21%
% Change year +1.75% +3.42% +14.93% +14.09% +20.55%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.2712 26.3157 29.7548 32.2581 18.6119
$ Change 0.0115 0.0265 0.0489 0.0620 0.0404
% Change day +0.06% +0.10% +0.16% +0.19% +0.22%
% Change week +0.13% +0.23% +0.37% +0.43% +0.49%
% Change month +0.13% +0.23% +0.37% +0.43% +0.49%
% Change year +4.68% +7.51% +10.88% +12.51% +14.00%

 

 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:
For now it’s steady as she goes. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice evening!
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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