10/10/16

Good Evening, The market rose today on higher oil. According to the media, it also rose on the perception that Hillary Clinton won the debate. I’m staying out of the politics on this blog. Nevertheless, that is what they said…. It’s always been my humble opinion that the news is not generated by the market, but rather written to match the market. That’s the reason I stick with technical analysis. You can’t always believe everything you read!

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gained +0.86%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.49%, the Nasdaq +0.69%, and the S&P 500 +0.49%. Praise God, we had them covered today!

 

Stocks Buoyed by Higher Oil Prices; Investors Await Third-Quarter Earnings

 

The days trading left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +1.57% for the year not including the days gains. Here are the latest posted results.

10/07/16 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.1169 17.8816 29.5532 38.2957 24.58
$ Change 0.0006 0.0024 -0.0957 -0.2442 -0.0950
% Change day +0.00% +0.01% -0.32% -0.63% -0.39%
% Change week +0.03% -0.51% -0.60% -1.29% -0.76%
% Change month +0.03% -0.51% -0.60% -1.29% -0.76%
% Change year +1.35% +5.47% +7.22% +8.68% +2.01%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.2451 24.0904 26.2433 27.9432 15.8529
$ Change -0.0133 -0.0390 -0.0641 -0.0806 -0.0525
% Change day -0.07% -0.16% -0.24% -0.29% -0.33%
% Change week -0.16% -0.34% -0.50% -0.59% -0.66%
% Change month -0.16% -0.34% -0.50% -0.59% -0.66%
% Change year +2.65% +3.80% +4.71% +5.16% +5.50%

 

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: The C Fund generated an overall buy signal when the PMO crossed back up through it’s signal line. This is a shaky signal that is subject to a whipsaw as the PMO is hugging it’s signal line. That will be the case until you see some separation one way or the other. An SCTR of only 55.1 shows the weakness of this signal. It is far from solid.
c-fund
S Fund:
s-fund
I Fund:
i-fund
F Fund:
f-fund
The market remains locked in the same trading range that it has been in for three months. We’ll keep a close eye on the charts so that we will be the first to know when that range is finally broken. 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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