11/22/17

Good Evening, The market cooled off today after yesterday’s big run while many traders packed up for the holiday. Volume reflected a lot of traders leaving for Thanksgiving. About 5.18 billion shares changed hands in U.S. exchanges, compared with the 6.66 billion daily average over the last 20 sessions. Last year, volume during the session before Thanksgiving was 6.51 billion. There was a spat of buying just before the close which tells me that Monday is likely to be a good day. Friday really doesn’t count as volume will be light and trading will end early at 1:00 PM ET.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped back -0.05%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.27%, the Nasdaq added +0.07%and the S&P 500 gave up -0.08%.

 

Wall St. flat ahead of holiday; ISPs rise on net neutrality bets

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested with 100% of our interfund allocation in the S Fund. Our allocation is now +17.16% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results.

 

11/21/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.5003 18.0555 36.4867 47.5589 30.0002
$ Change 0.0010 0.0155 0.2376 0.4108 0.1212
% Change day +0.01% +0.09% +0.66% +0.87% +0.41%
% Change week +0.03% +0.03% +0.79% +1.38% +0.51%
% Change month +0.14% +0.04% +1.10% +1.45% -0.17%
% Change year +2.06% +3.48% +18.18% +16.01% +21.94%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.3993 26.5702 30.1787 32.7814 18.9468
$ Change 0.0257 0.0618 0.1161 0.1486 0.0976
% Change day +0.13% +0.23% +0.39% +0.46% +0.52%
% Change week +0.18% +0.31% +0.50% +0.59% +0.67%
% Change month +0.26% +0.36% +0.52% +0.60% +0.66%
% Change year +5.37% +8.55% +12.46% +14.34% +16.06%

 

 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:
Don’t forget that Friday is a short day of trading with the market shutting down at 1:00 PM ET. You all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. May God bless each of you as well as everyone under your roofs and while your giving thanks be sure and thank Him for all he has blessed this group with. See you on Monday!
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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