Good Evening, The market stumbled along today in a boring session while it waited for clarity on the Chinese Trade Issue (The 2nd of the three T’s). However, Small caps which are immune to the Trade/Tariff issues continued to rise with the Russell 2000 setting another record high. One thing you must be aware of, especially since we have a heavy exposure to small caps in the S Fund, is that stocks tend to move together. This kind of bifurcated action is somewhat of a rarity. What you have to understand about this is that eventually large caps and small caps will equalize. So there will be a period of time where small caps move sideways and consolidate their gains while large caps move up to join them or they will sell off until they move down to the level of large caps. I believe it will be the former and not the latter but that is only a guess. Either way though, in the end they will equal out. My plan as always is to react to what I see on my charts. My former statement is only speculation based on current market conditions and past experience. I would never make an investment decision based on that. A contingency plan yes, a preemptive decision no…….
The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment out performed yet again posting a small gain of +0.07%. For comparison, the Dow was flat at +0.00%, the Nasdaq dropped -0.38%, and the S&P 500 lost -0.26%. Praise God for giving our group another good day!
The weeks 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 +3.99% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:
| 05/17/18 | Prior Prices | ||||
| Fund | G Fund | F Fund | C Fund | S Fund | I Fund |
| Price | 15.6988 | 17.5877 | 38.5448 | 50.8205 | 31.3693 |
| $ Change | 0.0013 | -0.0140 | -0.0221 | 0.1812 | 0.1437 |
| % Change day | +0.01% | -0.08% | -0.06% | +0.36% | +0.46% |
| % Change week | +0.05% | -0.67% | -0.21% | +0.63% | -0.36% |
| % Change month | +0.13% | -0.76% | +2.89% | +4.45% | +0.75% |
| % Change year | +1.02% | -2.91% | +2.48% | +4.86% | +1.66% |
| L INC | L 2020 | L 2030 | L 2040 | L 2050 | |
| Price | 19.7795 | 27.2558 | 31.3009 | 34.1519 | 19.8225 |
| $ Change | 0.0063 | 0.0143 | 0.0299 | 0.0394 | 0.0268 |
| % Change day | +0.03% | +0.05% | +0.10% | +0.12% | +0.14% |
| % Change week | -0.03% | -0.06% | -0.11% | -0.12% | -0.13% |
| % Change month | +0.54% | +0.86% | +1.50% | +1.78% | +2.04% |
| % Change year | +1.17% | +1.36% | +1.84% | +2.01% | +2.20% |
