04/13/18

Good Evening, It’s late on Friday and I know you have better things to do than read my rambling so I’ll cut right to the point. Traders decided that there was way too much going on in the way of geopolitical events to take the risk of holding stocks over the weekend. With that thought in mind they sold stocks with the market reversing from opening well in the green to closing well in the red.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment fell back -0.46%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.50%, the Nasdaq -0.47%, and the S&P 500 -0.29%.

 

Wall Street falls as bank stocks, Syria conflict weigh

The weeks actions left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +0.39% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

04/12/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6566 17.811 37.6746 49.0637 30.9364
$ Change 0.0011 -0.0371 0.3130 0.2871 -0.0529
% Change day +0.01% -0.21% +0.84% +0.59% -0.17%
% Change week +0.05% -0.18% +2.34% +2.40% +1.22%
% Change month +0.09% -0.23% +0.95% +1.12% +1.36%
% Change year +0.75% -1.68% +0.17% +1.23% +0.26%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.667 27.0308 30.8775 33.6148 19.4693
$ Change 0.0182 0.0426 0.0893 0.1150 0.0759
% Change day +0.09% +0.16% +0.29% +0.34% +0.39%
% Change week +0.42% +0.69% +1.22% +1.45% +1.65%
% Change month +0.28% +0.38% +0.68% +0.80% +0.91%
% Change year +0.60% +0.52% +0.46% +0.41% +0.37%

 

 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 be watching on Monday to see if investors jump back in or what the reaction might be if anything takes place over the weekend. Have a nice weekend and don’t worry about this market. God is still with us. 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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