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Great charts Barney!!! I've been trying to find somewhere or someone to show me the moving averages on a daily basis. Thank you for share these with us, and all your hard work. By the way, do you know where I can find a chart with the 20 day moving averages for our funds? or could you include them in your chart? Your efforts are much appreciated!!
 
crhuss said:
Great charts Barney!!! I've been trying to find somewhere or someone to show me the moving averages on a daily basis. Thank you for share these with us, and all your hard work. By the way, do you know where I can find a chart with the 20 day moving averages for our funds? or could you include them in your chart? Your efforts are much appreciated!!
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I have those. Want the spreadsheets? Send me your email, I'll get them out to you.
 
crhuss said:
Great charts Barney!!! I've been trying to find somewhere or someone to show me the moving averages on a daily basis. Thank you for share these with us, and all your hard work. By the way, do you know where I can find a chart with the 20 day moving averages for our funds? or could you include them in your chart? Your efforts are much appreciated!!
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Crhuss, I will look into adding the 20 day. I want to be alittle careful because I don't want to crowd the chart. But I will see what I can do.

Dr Faustus said:
I have those. Want the spreadsheets? Send me your email, I'll get them out to you.
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Dr,
If you still have my e-mail, can I get a look at your spreadsheet?
 
I am only going to post this one chart today because the others haven't changed much or rather given a signal. I am interested at this riding the upper rail that the F-Fund seems to do. So with that, I am holding my position in the F-Fund and the G-Fund.

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I did not get a letter and probably won't. I did 8 IFT's in January, but since I only did 1 each month in OCT, NOV and DEC, I do not qualify. I did my first IFT for February and plan on doing more to max my retirement fund.
I will be posting more Bollinger band charts soon. I did not realize that my earlier charts were trend based and not actual Moving Averages. I saw that my trends were giving signals a little quicker which might give more whipsaws...or not. So, with that, I will be posting my charts again which will be good to compare to Dr. Faustus' charts. ;)
 
alevin said:
Hi Barney, ok you've got my curiosity up. I thought Sharebuilders was for stocks. What do you buy for a moneymarket sharebuilder account? I'm about ready to start saving again outside TSP, it's been awhile but I anticipate having my house paid off by next month so will have new cash to sock away somewhere else, woohooo! Maybe MM first in lieu of savings acct-I'll be needing to rebuild cash stash before I get to ROTH this year. Enlightment re mm account logistics w/Sharebuilders would be much appreciated.
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anidoc said:
ditto!:D
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Alevin and anidoc,
I am still new to the investment world, but when I opened up an account with Sharebuilder, they asked me how I want to fund my trades. I had the option of opening a moneymarket account, or an IRA. I chose the MM account which I transfer money to monthly. Then I put money into different stocks and ETF's. There is also mutual funds through ING.
I am not totally savy on the whole thing yet, but I think an easier way to explain this is to ask you to pm me with an e-mail address. They have a "Tell a Friend" link where I will put your address in. They will send you all the info, and if you join, they will give you $25 to start. I will get 5 free trades. Their disclaimer -We respect your privacy and the privacy of those you refer. We will only use the information you enter above to inform those you designate, and to fulfill your free investments. We will not store the personal information of those you refer.
If you would rather not go that route, then may I suggest goinng to http://www.sharebuilder.com/

Even though I can trade real time at $9.95, I like to trade on Tuesdays at $4 per trade.
Please let me know what you think.
 
Hey Barney,

ShareBuilder, huh? $9.95 a trade ... in real time? I wonder if I can roll over my TSP to them. (probably at a healthy tax bite)
 
Dr Faustus said:
Hey Barney,

ShareBuilder, huh? $9.95 a trade ... in real time? I wonder if I can roll over my TSP to them. (probably at a healthy tax bite)
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I actually reduced my contributions to TSP and put the difference toward my Sharebuilder account. I have used the realtime and Automatic investment plans. I have not messed with options or margin rates. Here is more about it.

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I was just playing with some numbers in the TSP because of our two move restrictions. I looked back through each year to 2003, and added up the daily returns in 2 incriments.

First, I added up the returns for the F, C, S, and I Funds for the 1st of the month thru the 14th of the month. I also did the same for the 15th - 31st of each month.

Then I added up all the totals for each year:
all of the 1-14
all of the 15-31

Although the pattern is not consistant, the results are interesting, to say the least.
I am going to try this and see what the results will bring. Tomorrow, I will IFT 100% into the S-fund. Then on Monday, June 30th, I will IFT into the G-fund. I will repeat this process for the first and 15th of every month. If the numbers change for 2008, then I might readjust.

The below numbers for 2008 are the figures up till June 11, 2008.
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That's a good-to-know trend. By going to the G-fund on the last day of every month, you are not wasting one of your 2 allotted IFTs to move to the G-fund early in the month. You then have some flexibility to go 100% S, then 100% I or any combination you'd like and still be free to use a (bonus) third move to get back to the G at the end of the month.:D
 
qibovin said:
That's a good-to-know trend. By going to the G-fund on the last day of every month, you are not wasting one of your 2 allotted IFTs to move to the G-fund early in the month. You then have some flexibility to go 100% S, then 100% I or any combination you'd like and still be free to use a (bonus) third move to get back to the G at the end of the month.:D
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However, if you are in an uptrend, you wouldn't want to bail to G just because it's the last day of the month. You'd waste your first IFT getting back into the fund you bailed from when you didn't have to. Here's my strategy. On the last trading day of the month, before NOON:
  • Look at the LMBF. If it exceeds my return for the month, and if I haven't used my 2nd IFT, move to the indicated fund before noon. I still have my 2 IFT's for the following month to reallocate for more profit or bail.
  • If the trend is up for the fund I'm in, stay put. I still have my 2 IFT's.
  • If it's time to bail, do it to G and be set for next month. Still have my 2 IFT's.
 
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