01/21/2020

Good Evening, Before anyone asks, I think it’s a buying opportunity! My charts are still good, corporate earnings are still good (Netfix and IBM both posted earnings beats just today),  the China deal is still intact, Brexit is a go…..and we have a virus….No Sir, not selling, I’m all in for now….. So what’s up. The corona virus. Do any of you remember the SARS virus? It started in China after somehow being transferred from animals to humans. I don’t remember which animals. It may have been poultry.  All I remember is that it messed the world economy up because no one would travel or spend money in public places. Well it seems that something weird is going on in the animal kingdom in China again and investors are worried about a new pandemic and how it might effect the world economy. This virus is in the same family of viruses as SARS. They think it was transferred from sea food this time. I wonder what in the world they were eating??? I don’t want to make lite of the the folks that have lost their lives to the corona virus but I think this is little overdone at this point. You can decide for yourself. The bottom line is this. The corona virus is not as bad as SARS and the response by the world health community has been much better. I’m still a buyer….

The days trading left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment dropped a little over a quarter point to finish at -0.27%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.52%, the Nasdaq -0.19%, and the S&P 500 -0.27%.

 

Wall Street falls as China virus reaches the U.S.

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/C. Our allocation is now +3.14% not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

01/17/20 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 16.3653 19.8143 48.7434 57.8913 33.0571
$ Change 0.0009 -0.0202 0.1879 -0.1171 0.1448
% Change day +0.01% -0.10% +0.39% -0.20% +0.44%
% Change week +0.04% +0.05% +1.98% +2.34% +0.85%
% Change month +0.09% +0.49% +3.14% +2.87% +1.04%
% Change year +0.09% +0.49% +3.14% +2.87% +1.04%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 21.3131 29.5055 35.3689 39.1006 22.9267
$ Change 0.0147 0.0230 0.0664 0.0862 0.0566
% Change day +0.07% +0.08% +0.19% +0.22% +0.25%
% Change week +0.38% +0.43% +1.00% +1.19% +1.35%
% Change month +0.60% +0.68% +1.48% +1.75% +1.97%
% Change year +0.60% +0.68% +1.48% +1.75% +1.97%

 

 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:
Nothing new to add here. Keep praying for our group! Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades!
God bless, Scott Sunglasses
 
 ***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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