Good Evening, Two good days in a row! Are we done with the selling? Probably most of it. Are we done with the volatility? Some of it but not all of it. Things will not return to the placid nature of 2017. For now we’ll have to focus on climbing back up the mountain. The one positive thing to take away from today’s trading was that the dip buyers were back. The action had a V type feel to it although I’m pretty sure that we’ve seen the end of the V shaped recoveries. I only saw a handful of those in all the years that I traded prior to 2008. The V Shaped recovery was not a natural thing when human emotion was involved. It was the product of quantitative easing and the computer algorithms that took advantage of it and both of those are behind us now.
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment made a nice gain of +1.39%. For comparison, the Dow added +1.70%, the Nasdaq +1.56%, and the S&P 500 +1.39%.
The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now -1.46% for the year. Here are the latest postede results:
| 02/12/18 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.5857 | 17.7503 | 37.4321 | 47.3819 | 30.4662 |
| $ Change | 0.0035 | -0.0201 | 0.5157 | 0.5120 | 0.4798 |
| % Change day | +0.02% | -0.11% | +1.40% | +1.09% | +1.60% |
| % Change week | +0.02% | -0.11% | +1.40% | +1.09% | +1.60% |
| % Change month | +0.09% | -0.88% | -5.86% | -5.40% | -5.96% |
| % Change year | +0.29% | -2.01% | -0.47% | -2.24% | -1.26% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 19.5386 | 26.8262 | 30.5565 | 33.2266 | 19.2242 |
| $ Change | 0.0575 | 0.1344 | 0.2625 | 0.3354 | 0.2198 |
| % Change day | +0.30% | +0.50% | +0.87% | +1.02% | +1.16% |
| % Change week | +0.30% | +0.50% | +0.87% | +1.02% | +1.16% |
| % Change month | -1.15% | -2.04% | -3.59% | -4.26% | -4.83% |
| % Change year | -0.06% | -0.24% | -0.58% | -0.75% | -0.89% |
