11/20/17

Good Evening, The market rose again this morning led by….you guessed it, small caps! While gains in the overall market where slim, small caps out performed again with the IWM (Russell 2000) moving up a nice +0.73%. You all know what that means for our mid cap blend S Fund! When you read your charts correctly and do your home work it generally puts you in the right place at the right time and that folks is where we find ourselves. The S Fund gives us the most small cap exposure that we can get in TSP. If we were on the street we could make a lot more money, but such as it is we are doing as well as we can do. I mentioned a few blogs back, small caps pretty well out perform larger stocks in November and December and so far that looks to be the case again this year. Conversely, the I Fund is under performing just a bit with a stronger dollar. It’s still doing well mind you, just not as good as it was earlier this fall.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment made another nice gain of +0.53%. For comparison, the Dow was up +0.31%, the Nasdaq +0.12%, and the S&P 500 +0.13%. Praise God, we carried the day again!

 

Wall Street ticks up, lifted by Verizon, chipmakers

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +15.57% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

11/17/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.4962 18.0499 36.2014 46.9125 29.8486
$ Change 0.0010 0.0074 -0.0943 0.2022 0.0085
% Change day +0.01% +0.04% -0.26% +0.43% +0.03%
% Change week +0.05% -0.11% -0.11% +1.09% -0.73%
% Change month +0.11% +0.01% +0.31% +0.07% -0.67%
% Change year +2.04% +3.45% +17.26% +14.43% +21.33%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.3647 26.4893 30.0284 32.5891 18.8202
$ Change -0.0016 -0.0053 -0.0107 -0.0128 -0.0077
% Change day -0.01% -0.02% -0.04% -0.04% -0.04%
% Change week +0.01% -0.02% -0.06% -0.07% -0.08%
% Change month +0.08% +0.06% +0.02% +0.00% -0.01%
% Change year +5.18% +8.22% +11.90% +13.66% +15.28%

 

 

 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: The S Fund is getting stronger. The SCTR has now risen to 74.6.
I fund:
F Fund:
Our TSP allotment is performing well. That’s all for tonight. Have a great 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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