05/15/18

Good Evening, It was interest rates and one of the three T’s (Trade) that moved the market down today. Investors became concerned about treasury yields moving up but a rush to safety in bonds after North Korea threatened to pull out of peace talks put a damper on that move with the stocks rebounding on the news. However, it was just a short time until negative comments by the US Ambassador to China concerning trade talks put trade back on investors radar and moved stocks into the red for the session.

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment slipped back another -0.21%. For comparison, the Dow dropped -0.78%, the Nasdaq -0.81%, and the S&P 500 -0.68%.

 

Wall St. drops as Treasury yields surge

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Sell. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +3.06% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results.

 

05/14/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.6951 17.6967 38.6632 50.3697 31.596
$ Change 0.0037 -0.0104 0.0358 -0.1324 0.1140
% Change day +0.02% -0.06% +0.09% -0.26% +0.36%
% Change week +0.02% -0.06% +0.09% -0.26% +0.36%
% Change month +0.11% -0.14% +3.21% +3.53% +1.48%
% Change year +0.99% -2.31% +2.80% +3.93% +2.40%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.7938 27.2861 31.358 34.2227 19.866
$ Change 0.0077 0.0140 0.0238 0.0290 0.0182
% Change day +0.04% +0.05% +0.08% +0.08% +0.09%
% Change week +0.04% +0.05% +0.08% +0.08% +0.09%
% Change month +0.62% +0.97% +1.69% +1.99% +2.26%
% Change year +1.24% +1.47% +2.02% +2.22% +2.42%

 

 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: The F Fund whipsawed back to a sell signal when the MACD and the Wm%R both moved into negative configurations. Treasury yields move up and bonds move down…..
Our allocation was the best place to be today as a stronger dollar gave us a boost. That said I’d rather be in the best place when stock prices are moving up. 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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