I fund

[valleymd]

The I-Fund has been under-performing the C and S fund for most of 2011. I currently have an allocation of 15% in the I-Fund (which is less than the percentages of I-Fund in the L2040 and L2050). I'm wondering if I should dump the I-Fund all together and send it to the S-Fund instead.

What does the future look like for the I-Fund? Would you Buy, Sell or Hold if you were in my situation? With Europe still in turmoil will the I-Fund continue to lag the C and S funds, or will it shoot up to make up for lost time in 2012?

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

The I-Fund has been under-performing the C and S fund for most of 2011. I currently have an allocation of 15% in the I-Fund (which is less than the percentages of I-Fund in the L2040 and L2050). I'm wondering if I should dump the I-Fund all together and send it to the S-Fund instead.

What does the future look like for the I-Fund? Would you Buy, Sell or Hold if you were in my situation? With Europe still in turmoil will the I-Fund continue to lag the C and S funds, or will it shoot up to make up for lost time in 2012?

I don't touch the I fund because it doesn't track with the US markets that I follow. Just my 2 cents

 

[tsptalk]

The I-Fund has been under-performing the C and S fund for most of 2011. I currently have an allocation of 15% in the I-Fund (which is less than the percentages of I-Fund in the L2040 and L2050). I'm wondering if I should dump the I-Fund all together and send it to the S-Fund instead.

What does the future look like for the I-Fund? Would you Buy, Sell or Hold if you were in my situation? With Europe still in turmoil will the I-Fund continue to lag the C and S funds, or will it shoot up to make up for lost time in 2012?

Welcome valleymd. I don't know what the future brings for the I-fund, but as long as the dollar trending higher, I would stick with the U.S. funds. If the dollar breaks its trend (and the euro breaks its downtrend), then the I-fund would come back in play.

 

[James48843]

Nikkie 225 up big again this morning.

Last friday's U.S. markets upswing is carrying over this morning into Japan.

Currently, Nikkei is up +1.10%.

Good luck out there!

 

[James48843]

Bear flags waving hard this morning-

DAX is now down -2.93%. That's a LOT for one day.

I am waiting another day or two for the perfect time to jump back in. I am thinking we'll get a solid downturn today and tomorrow- a great buying opportunity soon.

 

[James48843]

Note-

There is no Russian stock component of the I fund but....for what it's worth-

the Russian stock market just declared an emergency and suspended all trading. I have no idea what is going on there.

Russian Stock Market Has Suspended Trading

Source: Micex Group RTS Group (Russian Stock Exchange)

The technical suspension of trading to be extended

The situation has been recognized as an emergency. Further actions will be announced shortly.

Read more: News and events — MICEX-RTS Exchange

For what it's worth, the MICEX (Russian market) was down 2.39% for the day today when trading was suspended. Not sure what is going on, and very little in the financial news places.

 

[James48843]

Here is what the Russian stock exchange is now saying:

from: News and events — MICEX-RTS Exchange

24.04.2012 12:27

Measures taken by MICEX-RTS concerning the outage on the Exchange"s Main Market on April 23, 2012

On April 23, 2012 the Main market sector of the MICEX-RTS Group's Securities market suffered technical problems, i.e. at 5.45pm MSK market data in the order book of market participants ceased to be updated.

At 5.56pm MSK the MICEX Stock Exchange General Director announced that trading was to be suspended until 6.56pm MSK in order to contain the situation.

At 6.45pm MSK the suspension was extended until 7.35pm MSK and then until 7.55pm MSK.
Effects of the 120-minute outage were not eliminated and at 8.10pm MSK the General Director announced the emergency situation in the Main Market sector based on clause 1.13.9 of the Trading rules of CJSC MICEX Stock Exchange.

Range of organizational and technical measures was taken to recover from the emergency situation and by 9.30pm MSK the operability of the trading system were restored.

To generate the representative closing price and protect investors' rights the following schedule of trading was established:

• 9.50pm - 10.10pm – trading period in the Main trading mode of the Main trading session;
• 9.50pm - 10.10pm – execution of trades in the Negotiated trades mode and repo trades.
• 10.20pm – close of the main trading session.

The Exchange applied to the Bank of Russia for extension of operating time of the multivoyage payment processing system in order to minimize implications of the emergency situation.

Decisions taken by the Directorate of the Exchange and competent actions of Exchange's specialists allowed trading members to close their operations including cancel orders, perform clearing and fulfill obligations under executed trades even under the outage circumstances.

MICEX-RTS realizes the consequences that the outage could bring to the market and apologizes to trading members. The Exchange firmly intends to detect and examine causes of the disruption.

For further information, please contact the Public Relations Department at (495) 363-3232.​

Not sure what happened, but it was some kind of unusual event.

​

 

[Pill]

I have been buying the I fund like it’s on sale. If this happens should I be running from the I Fund? Honestly, I have never fully understood the I fund. Silly me, and contributing 100% to it .

How can we benefit from this (not if it happens, because it already going on)? I have heard/read, 5-10 yrs from now the US dollar will not be the sole source of oil transactions.

Ditching the Dollar by Marin Katusa

I'm not sure if this is the best article on the subject as I am limited on time right now and can't fully read up on the subject. But, my father in law who follow currencies religiously as he is a collector and investor just got back from a trip to Hong Kong, and was sharing with me on the topic.

 

[James48843]

CAC
DAX
FSTE all up this morning on word of U.S. election results.


Plus- Colorado voted to legalize recreational marijuana and tax it.

Tourism expected to explode in that Rocky Mountain High state.

 

[clester]

Anyone notice the bad quotes on Efa on bigcharts and stockcharts? Only yahoo has a good quote.

 

[clester]

Anyone notice the bad quotes on Efa on bigcharts and stockcharts? Only yahoo has a good quote.

I found a Morningstar site that showed price (what yahoo has) and an indicative value which is based on the prices of the underlying stocks (what everyone else quotes). I would think they are usually very close but today there is a big difference. Which will TSP use? I guess we will have to wait and see. It's about a 1% difference today. That is a lot. Is that where the fair value comes in?

 

[clester]

I found a Morningstar site that showed price (what yahoo has) and an indicative value which is based on the prices of the underlying stocks (what everyone else quotes). I would think they are usually very close but today there is a big difference. Which will TSP use? I guess we will have to wait and see. It's about a 1% difference today. That is a lot. Is that where the fair value comes in?

Now I noticed the actual ETF price is the same. It's just that one shows up over 1% and the other shows flat.

 

[clester]

I found a Morningstar site that showed price (what yahoo has) and an indicative value which is based on the prices of the underlying stocks (what everyone else quotes). I would think they are usually very close but today there is a big difference. Which will TSP use? I guess we will have to wait and see. It's about a 1% difference today. That is a lot. Is that where the fair value comes in?

Ok. Perhaps this is what tsp uses for the price it assigns the I fund. From the site above EFA Chart iShares MSCI EAFE Index ETF Chart

The difference between the 2 percentages is what we got .76 %. I will monitor it to see if it is consistent.

 

[clester]

Ok. Perhaps this is what tsp uses for the price it assigns the I fund. From the site above EFA Chart iShares MSCI EAFE Index ETF Chart

The difference between the 2 percentages is what we got .76 %. I will monitor it to see if it is consistent.

Today is different on the site above because the indicative value is 1.2% and the etf price is .6% and the chart shows a different price but today it's about 1.2% also. Which one is what Tsp uses? I'm guessing the value on the chart which is 1.2%. Well see tonight.

 

[PLANO]

I'm following this conversation and hope you guys figure this out. I'm just happy to be have been fully invested in the I Fund since 11/30

 

[clester]

If we get what the chart price says from the Morningstar site above we should get +0.77%.

 

[clester]

If we get what the chart price says from the Morningstar site above we should get +0.77%.

We got .99% which does not correlate with any exact price on the Morningstar site but it's better than just having the Efa quote. However you don't have charting tools there so I'll keep using Efa.

 

[James48843]

Note: Japanese Stock Market holidays for 2013:

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[James48843]

for what it;s worth- Europe is reacting with a huge upside to the fiscal cliff vote.

DAX now up 2.25%,

FTSE also up more than 2%.

It's going to be a good day for the "I fund.

 

[BigJohn]

for what it;s worth- Europe is reacting with a huge upside to the fiscal cliff vote.

DAX now up 2.25%,

FTSE also up more than 2%.

It's going to be a good day for the "I fund.

I sure hope so seeing how the I fund was up around 1.5% yesterday and the share price only went up .66%. My uneducated guess is the timing of yesterday's big move was later afternoon, after the pricing for the I fund was set. I am hoping for some payback from yesterday to add to today's move.