07/21/17

Good Evening, Today the market traded with a negative bias ending the session just below even. I could probably copy this statement to my blogs and describe a great majority or the days between now and November. While there will be some occasional movement, in the end, stocks will often end this period of the year close to where they started. That’s why they call it the dog days of summer. Today stocks sold off after the large industrial GE made a down beat forecast during it’s quarterly earnings report. Just another summer day. GE hasn’t exactly been a power house in the last year so I’m not overly concerned about the news. I still believe the direction of the stock market depends on earnings and tax reform.

The days trading left us with the following result. Our TSP allotment fell back -0.39%. For comparison, the Dow was off -0.15%, the Nasdaq -0.04%, and the S&P 500 -0.04%.

 

Wall Street Retreats From Records as GE Presents Downbeat Outlook

 

The weeks action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allotment is now +12.23% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

07/20/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3829 17.9645 34.489 44.8795 28.8879
$ Change 0.0010 0.0069 -0.0030 -0.0102 0.1752
% Change day +0.01% +0.04% -0.01% -0.02% +0.61%
% Change week +0.04% +0.38% +0.60% +0.84% +1.00%
% Change month +0.12% +0.47% +2.17% +1.92% +2.91%
% Change year +1.29% +2.96% +11.71% +9.47% +17.42%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.0864 25.9446 29.1544 31.5167 18.1364
$ Change 0.0080 0.0188 0.0328 0.0413 0.0267
% Change day +0.04% +0.07% +0.11% +0.13% +0.15%
% Change week +0.20% +0.33% +0.50% +0.58% +0.66%
% Change month +0.59% +0.99% +1.52% +1.77% +1.99%
% Change year +3.67% +5.99% +8.64% +9.92% +11.09%

 

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:
S Fund:
I Fund:
F Fund:
It looks like investors are taking a wait and see attitude. Works for me! 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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