Good Evening, The market continued today with it’s recent pattern of weakness in the morning and strength in the afternoon. Buying the dip has been almost a sure way to make money in recent weeks. The focus this week on trading is all about jobs. The market is keying off of Fridays job report as it relates to Interest rate increases and what the Fed has to say about interest rate increases. Anything else is a sidebar. So I guess you could really say it’s all about interest rate increases in 2017. Right now the Fed is predicting two more…….
Today’s trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped -0.14%. The Dow was off -0.06%, the Nasdaq -0.29%, and the S&P 500 -0.16%.
Wall Street Kicks Off Second Quarter on Wrong Foot as Financials Lag
The days action left us with the following signals: C- Neutral, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +2.61% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:
| 03/31/17 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.2761 | 17.6102 | 32.7472 | 42.8703 | 26.4109 |
| $ Change | 0.0009 | 0.0215 | -0.0740 | 0.0706 | -0.1258 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | +0.12% | -0.23% | +0.16% | -0.47% |
| % Change week | +0.05% | +0.07% | +0.82% | +1.96% | +0.05% |
| % Change month | +0.20% | -0.01% | +0.12% | -0.08% | +2.85% |
| % Change year | +0.59% | +0.93% | +6.07% | +4.57% | +7.35% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 18.7281 | 25.1904 | 27.9439 | 30.0274 | 17.1881 |
| $ Change | -0.0070 | -0.0224 | -0.0394 | -0.0495 | -0.0322 |
| % Change day | -0.04% | -0.09% | -0.14% | -0.16% | -0.19% |
| % Change week | +0.19% | +0.34% | +0.50% | +0.58% | +0.67% |
| % Change month | +0.33% | +0.48% | +0.64% | +0.71% | +0.78% |
| % Change year | +1.73% | +2.91% | +4.13% | +4.73% | +5.28% |
