07/24/17

Good Evening, The tech sector rallied but most of the others were found to be lacking on the day. Most of the focus by traders this week is on the Fed meeting that concludes Wednesday. They will be paying close attention to the Fed’s statement released at 2 PM EDT that day to see what is said about future interest rate hikes and the unwinding of the Fed’s large balance sheet of bonds. For those of you who are new investors and are wondering exactly what this is well the Fed purchased bonds to stimulate the economy after the financial crisis in 2009. The time has now come to start selling those bonds which the talking heads refer to as reducing the Fed’s balance sheet. This will most assuredly not have a good effect on the market. So how many bonds they sell and how fast they sell them will be of particular interest to investors…..

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment gave up -0.27%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.31%, the Nasdaq gained +0.36%, and the S&P 500 slipped -0.11%.

 

Nasdaq, tech shine as earnings pick up; Dow, S&P lag

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +11.65% for the year not including the days results.

Here are the latest posted results:

 

07/21/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.3838 17.9962 34.4762 44.7601 28.7375
$ Change 0.0009 0.0317 -0.0128 -0.1194 -0.1504
% Change day +0.01% +0.18% -0.04% -0.27% -0.52%
% Change week +0.04% +0.55% +0.56% +0.57% +0.47%
% Change month +0.13% +0.64% +2.13% +1.65% +2.38%
% Change year +1.30% +3.14% +11.67% +9.18% +16.81%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.0811 25.927 29.1187 31.4699 18.1046
$ Change -0.0053 -0.0176 -0.0357 -0.0468 -0.0318
% Change day -0.03% -0.07% -0.12% -0.15% -0.18%
% Change week +0.17% +0.26% +0.38% +0.44% +0.48%
% Change month +0.56% +0.93% +1.40% +1.62% +1.81%
% Change year +3.64% +5.92% +8.51% +9.76% +10.90%

 

 

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:
We’ll see if there are any surprises as we head into the Fed meeting. Other than that it’s typical summer trading. 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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