12/02/2020

Good Evening, As we enter the final month of year the market is focused on three issues. #1 Fiscal Stimulus from the government. Can democrats and republicans come to an agreement across the aisle on a pandemic stimulus bill? That is the question that is most on the minds of investors. #2 Distribution of the Covid 19 vaccines that have been developed in 2020. It won’t happen overnight but the more this is accomplished the better the market will get. This is the second thing on investors minds. #3 Coming in at number three is the current wave of Covid 19 cases across the US. This could be number one expect for optimism over the vaccine. Anyway, that’s what is shaping the market. There’s no use in beating around the bush these are the issues. I will add the the market appears to be somewhat more settled now that we have President Elect. As I have repeated a thousand times. The market hates uncertainty!

The days trading left us with the following results. Our TSP allotment slipped -023%. For comparison, the Dow added +0.20%, the Nasdaq also slipped -0.05%, and the S&P 500 posted a modest gain of -016%. I will add the even though it was modest the S&P gain was a new all time high!

 

S&P 500 hits record as investors await fiscal deal

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Buy, F-Hold. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +38.73% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

12/01/20 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 16.4968 21.0938 54.4504 69.6009 34.1572
$ Change 0.0004 -0.0730 0.6078 0.4102 0.3378
% Change day +0.00% -0.34% +1.13% +0.59% +1.00%
% Change week +0.01% -0.27% +0.68% -0.51% -0.25%
% Change month +0.00% -0.34% +1.13% +0.59% +1.00%
% Change year +0.90% +6.98% +15.21% +23.68% +4.40%
Fund L INC L 2025 L 2030 L 2035 L 2040
Price 22.088 10.9632 37.9432 11.2965 42.374
$ Change 0.0454 0.0514 0.2193 0.0714 0.2915
% Change day +0.21% +0.47% +0.58% +0.64% +0.69%
% Change week +0.03% +0.08% +0.10% +0.10% +0.11%
% Change month +0.21% +0.47% +0.58% +0.64% +0.69%
% Change year +4.26% +9.63% +8.87% +12.97% +10.26%
Fund L 2045 L 2050 L 2055 L 2060 L 2065
Price 11.5224 25.0528 11.9801 11.9802 11.9803
$ Change 0.0845 0.1959 0.1171 0.1171 0.1171
% Change day +0.74% +0.79% +0.99% +0.99% +0.99%
% Change week +0.11% +0.12% +0.16% +0.16% +0.16%
% Change month +0.74% +0.79% +0.99% +0.99% +0.99%
% Change year +15.22% +11.43% +19.80% +19.80% +19.80%

 

 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:
Our task remains to watch the charts and respond to changes. There’s no use in making things more difficult than they have to be. I’m a strong proponent of the KISS system! That’s all for tonight. Have nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades. Stay safe out there!!
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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