05/01/18

Good Evening, The market traded in the red for most of the morning session but reversed on positive trade news in the afternoon. The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after comments from a Trump administration official on trade with China and the Mexican economy minister on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided cause for optimism.Basically, the Mexican Trade Minister said that a deal was possible if negotiators were willing to put the work in to get one. Prior to that news, stocks came off the day’s lows after U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he did not desire to change China’s economic system but wanted to limit the damage it causes to the United States and encourage more foreign competition. The bottom line is that the market was encouraged that trade negotiations are moving in a positive direction or in other words the bad news that was hanging over us seems a little better now.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment posted a gain of +0.31%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.27%, the Nasdaq gained +0.91%, and the S&P 500 added +0.25%.

 

Wall Street rises on optimism on NAFTA deal and China trade

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Neutral, I-Neutral, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now -0.44% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

04/30/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6779 17.7217 37.4614 48.6545 31.1348
$ Change 0.0036 0.0172 -0.3081 -0.3879 0.0224
% Change day +0.02% +0.10% -0.82% -0.79% +0.07%
% Change week +0.02% +0.10% -0.82% -0.79% +0.07%
% Change month +0.23% -0.73% +0.38% +0.28% +2.01%
% Change year +0.88% -2.17% -0.40% +0.39% +0.90%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.6723 27.0239 30.8369 33.5546 19.4271
$ Change -0.0170 -0.0440 -0.0983 -0.1288 -0.0857
% Change day -0.09% -0.16% -0.32% -0.38% -0.44%
% Change week -0.09% -0.16% -0.32% -0.38% -0.44%
% Change month +0.30% +0.36% +0.55% +0.62% +0.69%
% Change year +0.62% +0.50% +0.33% +0.23% +0.16%

 

 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 generated an overall Neutral signal when the PMO and MACD moved into negative configurations.
I Fund: The I Fund generated an overall Neutral signal when the MACD and Wm%R moved into negative configurations.
F Fund:
Once again for those of you that are unfamiliar with our signals, a neutral signal means that the stock is neither a buy nor a sell. Many folks in the industry call this type of signal a Hold. We prefer not to do that as to us it means that the signal could move either way. Of course our reaction to a neutral signal is to hold until the chart makes it’s move one way or the other. That’s all for tonight. Have a nice 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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