08/10/16

Good Evening, The S&P 500 ended up selling off to the tune of a little over a qauter of a percent. That felt a lot worse than it actually was simply due to the fact that this has basically been a lop sided market. There have only been four days of worse performance in the S&P since the end of June. That equates to the very tight trading range that we have been in. While investors feel compelled to chase on one hand, they become increasingly nervous on the other each time a little selling occurs. After all, the market pundits have been calling for a big sell off since 2009 and the longer things go up one has to wonder when the hammer is going to fall……

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment had another decent day with a gain of +0.12%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.20%, the Nasdaq -0.40% and the S&P 500 -0.29%.

 

Oil slide pulls Wall Street back from record levels

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C- Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/F. Our TSP allotment is now +1.66% on the year not including the days returns. Here are the latest posted results.

08/09/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.0789 17.9575 29.8173 38.3075 24.5462
$ Change 0.0006 0.0410 0.0129 0.0527 0.2882
% Change day +0.00% +0.23% +0.04% +0.14% +1.19%
% Change week +0.02% +0.28% -0.04% +0.12% +1.78%
% Change month +0.04% -0.25% +0.45% +0.42% +0.41%
% Change year +1.10% +5.91% +8.18% +8.72% +1.87%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.2308 24.1082 26.2988 28.0213 15.9057
$ Change 0.0177 0.0462 0.0709 0.0873 0.0554
% Change day +0.10% +0.19% +0.27% +0.31% +0.35%
% Change week +0.14% +0.26% +0.36% +0.41% +0.46%
% Change month +0.10% +0.20% +0.27% +0.31% +0.36%
% Change year +2.57% +3.88% +4.93% +5.46% +5.85%

 

For now we’ll just keep hanging out in the F Fund until the market breaks out of this tight trading range that it has been in Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades.

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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