01/03/16

Good Evening, The market continued it’s recent pattern of starting off slow and closing strong. It appears that traders were trying to load up ahead of tomorrows jobs report. Hopefully, that’s a good omen of what’s to come…..

The action left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.0875%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.26%, the Nasdaq +0.09%, and the S&P 500 +0.35%.

 

Wall Street snaps up shares in late-day scramble

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 75/G, 25/C. Our allocation is now +0.84% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

03/02/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 14.9674 17.2659 26.904 33.347 22.6372
$ Change 0.0007 0.0048 0.1145 0.3333 0.0906
% Change day +0.00% +0.03% +0.43% +1.01% +0.40%
% Change week +0.03% -0.19% +2.00% +2.82% +2.44%
% Change month +0.01% -0.34% +2.83% +3.17% +2.43%
% Change year +0.35% +1.83% -2.39% -5.36% -6.05%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 17.7079 22.8502 24.4909 25.8386 14.5365
$ Change 0.0189 0.0557 0.0814 0.1001 0.0642
% Change day +0.11% +0.24% +0.33% +0.39% +0.44%
% Change week +0.46% +1.06% +1.45% +1.69% +1.92%
% Change month +0.54% +1.28% +1.76% +2.04% +2.33%
% Change year -0.37% -1.54% -2.28% -2.76% -3.26%

 

Now lets take a look at the charts. If you click on the charts they will become larger. All signals are annotated with Green Circles.

C Fund: Prices steady rise is pulling us closer to our next planned entry point which is the 5 EMA passing up through the 200 EMA. Depending on how the market trades, we could easily reach that signal in the next few days.

C Fund

 

S Fund:

I Fund

 

I Fund:

I Fund

 

F Fund: The SCTR has now dropped to 58.2 reflecting the recent weakness of this fund.

F Fund

 

The key right now is to be patient and not force anything. It’s easy to become too anxious and fall into a trap. Things are looking good right now, but that can easily change. We may get another chance to put some more money to work in the next two days. I’ll put out on alert it that’s the case. That’s all for tonight. Have a great 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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