02/29/16

Good Evening, Oil went up, but even that wasn’t enough to prevent the market from heading down after a bad manufacturing report. Of course, we dipped our toe back into the market with 25% in the C Fund. Today’s downturn was exactly the reason we are not 100%/C. Investing is a game of patience. March is one of the best months of the year for stocks. So we’ll wait and see before we pass judgment.

Today’s action left us with the following results. Our TSP allotment slipped back -.0.2025%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.74%, the Nasdaq -0.71%, and the S&P 500 -0.81%. The markets were mixed late in the afternoon, but sold off in the last hour of trading.

 

Last-Minute Selloff Drags Stocks Lower for Month

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 75/G, 25/C. Our allocation is now +0.13% on the year. Here are the latest posted results:

02/29/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 14.9659 17.3246 26.1642 32.3234 22.1002
$ Change 0.0023 0.0252 -0.2115 -0.1104 0.0014
% Change day +0.02% +0.15% -0.80% -0.34% +0.01%
% Change week +0.02% +0.15% -0.80% -0.34% +0.01%
% Change month +0.15% +0.68% -0.12% +0.50% -2.82%
% Change year +0.34% +2.18% -5.07% -8.26% -8.28%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 17.6135 22.5614 24.0683 25.3217 14.2059
$ Change -0.0139 -0.0488 -0.0725 -0.0887 -0.0568
% Change day -0.08% -0.22% -0.30% -0.35% -0.40%
% Change week -0.08% -0.22% -0.30% -0.35% -0.40%
% Change month +0.01% -0.24% -0.41% -0.51% -0.63%
% Change year -0.90% -2.79% -3.97% -4.70% -5.46%

Nothing to add here. We’ll watch our charts and hopefully be able to look for some opportunities to put some more cash to work. Keep praying and God will guide our hand. 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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