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It's been an interesting week. I've used up my last IFT for the month. I sold some of the weaker and bought more of the stronger. If things go down from here, I'll hold on for a bit. If they go up, I'll scale back into G.

As of Thursday I'm .47% MTD. I don't want to be in this market more then I have to and less then 50% of the time would be ideal.

Effective EOB today

G 40%
F 5%
C 10%
S 30%
I 15%

Good luck everyone and I hope you guys have a nice long relaxing weekend. ;)
 
Interesting to note that the G fund is leading all others. :cheesy:

I happen to like the days when the markets start off to the downside. It gives me a better sense of what I want to do. I may skim back a little from each fund today.
 
In the red with no IFTs left I get the luxurious choice of either going back to G and not making any profit for the month, or riding this wave down?

Damm you Mr Long, you and your minions are the spawn of Satan. :mad:
 
Still holding

40 G
5 F
10 C
30 S
15 I

I'll stay here, untill I have a good reason to leave.
 
Sold off my 5% position in F today. It's getting towards the top of it's trading channel, and I want to get out with a profit. Nothing fancy, I just wanted to scalp a few pennies.

As for the rest of my allocations, I'll hold for now. It would appear I'm stuck half-way down in this recent trend. I'll have to ride it down with the hopes it won't get to far down before it starts it's uptrend again. I have heaps of patience, time, and an exit plan, now I just need good timing.

Since I nolonger contribute to TSP, one of my goals to make sure I have aquired more shares of G before I go 100% to the sidelines.
 
It was nice to scalp a few pennies off of F.

Now I'm selling off my position in C. If the gains hold today, then I expect to take some gains back to G. I sold 5% in S just to scale a little more back into G. I hope to be 100% G by the end of the month.

60 G
25 S
15 I

Good luck everyone :toung:
 
Another morning to the downside. As of now all sectors are in the red. I suppose this won't bode well, but an early morning dive is better then a last minute dive at the end of the day. I'm now holding 25% S & 15% I.

AGG(+0.30%)
EFA -(-0.60%)
GLD(-0.20%)
SLV (-0.15%)
USO (+0.00%)
^DWCPF (-0.66%)
^GSPC (-1.26%)
^VIX (+8.19%)

Basic Materials-1.12%
Capital Goods-0.91%
Conglomerates-1.10%
Cons. Cyclical-0.40%
Cons. Non-Cyclical-0.44%
Energy-0.96%
Financial-0.90%
Healthcare-0.45%
Services-0.79%
Technology-0.63%
Transportation-0.46%
Utilities-0.80%
 
I'm sure glad I sold my C last Friday for a small profit. I'm also glad the markets haven't continued their downward slide this morning. My S & I took a big hit Monday, but I'm still well within my stops.

I know everyone in G is hoping for a big crash back down to July's lows, but I'm not sure that's going to happen in the short term. I'm down -.67% for the month and at this point I see no reason to pull out. Timing is everything and many of you timed your IFTs perfectly, while I sat too long in the bear camp. :suspicious:

Such is life, there are always lessons to learn and I'll always be a humble student of this market.

Good luck everyone!

AGG Ishares Leh Agg F100.54-0.15(-0.15%)
EFA Ishares Msci Eafe62.59+0.54(+0.87%)
^DWCPF Dow Jones Wilshir582.11+1.20(+0.21%)
^GSPC S&p 500 Index.rth1269.28+2.44(+0.19%)


GLDSpdr Gold Shares81.59+0.66(+0.82%)
SLVIshares Silver Tr13.55+0.22(+1.65%)
USOU.s. Oil Fund Et94.51+1.41(+1.51%)


Basic Materials+0.76%
Capital Goods+0.30%
Conglomerates-0.13%
Cons. Cyclical+0.77%
Cons. Non-Cyclical-0.22%
Energy+1.30%
Financial+0.74%
Healthcare+0.37%
Services+0.12%
Technology+0.16%
Transportation+0.13%
Utilities+0.58%
 
Good morning everyone.

I'm weighing my options this morning on what I'll do for the remainder of the month.

I could dump my 25S & 15I today and take a small profit for the month.

Or I could dump half today and half tomorrow.

There's more risk added with the market closed for three days and a Hurricane on the horizan. This may make Friday a huge down day. However, if this Hurricane shifts or the damage is minimal, then this market could take off.

This is why I can't wait to open an outside account. TSPLong and his henchmen have effectively tied our hands behind our back. They want buy-and-holders and they want us to squander our savings in their failed L-Funds. It's really sad when you think about it... :worried:
 
good morning. Do I smell a bull trap this morning? Holiday weekend with hurricane heading into the most productive area of the GOM? Buy buy buy! Today....and watch it bail tomorrow. Can't think anyone would stay in with the uncertainty on a 3 day weekend especially with the fed's recent history of weekend shenanigans to help their buds.:rolleyes:

But....this week has gone against the historical trend anyway and I've been wrong before. Decisions, decisions!
 
luv2read said:
good morning. Do I smell a bull trap this morning? Holiday weekend with hurricane heading into the most productive area of the GOM? Buy buy buy! Today....and watch it bail tomorrow. Can't think anyone would stay in with the uncertainty on a 3 day weekend especially with the fed's recent history of weekend shenanigans to help their buds.:rolleyes:
But....this week has gone against the historical trend anyway and I've been wrong before. Decisions, decisions!
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Agreed. I don't doubt oil will get a scare and they will find yet another reason to drive up gas prices if/when they shutdown the coastal refineries.

What I'm not sure about is how much of an effect this will have on the market with the current oil prices not whipping around the S&P 500 like they used to when prices were much higher.
 
Being wrong comes with the franchise of an activity whose outcome depends on an unknown future.
 
I believe the substance of the statement might have come either from Irwin Kellner or Ric Edelman but who can remember everything. I'm not familiar with someone named Berstein.
 
I'm glad to see a beatiful day in the markets :D

The $EMW S fund is pushing up against the 600 resistence level.
Question is can we push through it?

I certianly hope so :rolleyes:

You may notice all the lagging indicators are on the rise and we finally closed above the 20 & 50 day moving average. We are also sitting just 5 points away from the 200.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$EMW&p=D&yr=0&mn=3&dy=0&id=p28885176972

EMW28Aug.png
 
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My month in review

Want to hear something funny? I tied the G fund this month :embarrest:

The good news: I accumulated 1.96% more G shares. I invested in every fund this month and managed to skim a profit from each one, hence the accumulation of more G shares.

I was invested a total 14 days at 60% or less, so I did meet my goal of being invested half the time during this bear Market. The only fund I beat this month was I.

The bad news: I messed up my first IFT which has now messed up my tracker. My first IFT was ill timed from sitting on the sidelines too long and rushing my first IFT because of a scheduling conflict that would keep me from watching the markets that week.

Lessons learned: Don't let scheduling conflicts rush me into making IFTs.

I'm glad everyone seemed to have a great month and I'm glad most of us are now on the sidelines.

May God protect our families from the hurricane.
 
For those of you who bought in today, I hope you get a low price. For myself, I wasn't about to chase this mini rally because we are in the middle of both technical support and resistence.

Election year Septembers are supposed to be strong. But I wasn't impressed this morning with the S&P's inability to pierce through 1302.

I think it's about time we completed the head and shoulders formation.

Don't believe the hype... :notrust:
 
Thanks!

It looks like a Black Light picture of my TSP Fund.

I jumped in at the very left 100%, bought more at number 28 and am still waiting....
 
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