Playing the I fund

[airlift]

USD up over .5%

Any thoughts on what is moving the USD today?

I hope that I am not wrong, but this might be short-term volatility going on, while the process of shifting into larger caps occurs. Also, Geopolitical problems could be affecting the currencies, if worlwide investors perceive that unresloved problems with North Korea, etc., require buying the dollar as a safe currency issue. Only maybe, a 3rd story building appears to have collapsed near 62nd St., in New York. Whether this increases people's desire to move into the safer currency which still is the U.S Dollar, I don't know. In my view, however, the trend continues to be a lower dollar, as we have discussed before, and Japan is supposed to decide next Friday if it increases the YEN or not.

 

[sugarandspice]

By the way, instead of looking at EFA, look at Fidelity Spartan International Index Inv FSIIX. Morningstar just raised its rating to 4 Stars. FSIIX mirrors the I Fund's expenses, and has an identical makeup.

Maybe the chart EFA chart on TSPtalk should be replaced by this one has a quick reference. Especially if it gives a truer outlook on the I fund. Something to consider Tom.

 

[Pilgrim]

Where do you go to look at it? I put its symbol into both YAHOO and CNN and both gave me a closing chart from July 7.

 

[fabijo]

Looks like I fund will be at 19.48 today.

 

[Pilgrim]

Looks like I fund will be at 19.48 today.

I really hope you're right, one fourth of me is in there. But Europe closed almost flat and the dollar is way up. FV will probably kill everything.

 

[Wizard]

Japan Considers Strike Against N. Korea

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060710/D8IP4UC81.html

I would not want to be in the I fund tonight.

I just sold all my international ETFs.

 

[sugarandspice]

Looks like I fund will be at 19.48 today.

Why does it look like that?

 

[sugarandspice]

Japan Considers Strike Against N. Korea

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060710/D8IP4UC81.html

I would not want to be in the I fund tonight.

I just sold all my international ETFs.

This is just standard operating procedure given the circumstances.

Non factor for tomorrow.

I just sold all my international ETFs.

Sure you did.

 

[sugarandspice]

Sugar, dont act like you know anything. You are 100% I fund and you are just trying to make yourself feel better because someone is putting the stink-eye on you.

Worry more about the 3rd quarter earnings and how much the market WONT like them.

 

[Pilgrim]

Where did MSCI close today?

 

[Birchtree]

Sugar,

Good for you. You are obviously more prescient than most are aware.

Dennis

 

[Wizard]

Sugar,

Good for you. You are obviously more prescient than most are aware.

Dennis

No. The troll uses the dual personality B.S. to insult people and get away with it.

 

[Birchtree]

Oinker,

Please be careful where you step. Have you ever watched "Deadwood"?

 

[SkyPilot]

"prescient"

Dennis

Hee hee!

Sugar, you Spice up our lives!

 

[sugarandspice]

No. The troll uses the dual personality B.S. to insult people and get away with it.

Where's the insult?

 

[sugarandspice]

Sure you did.

Was it this?

Why would I believe you had any international anything when you have been G fund since January and haven't moved not once since then?

 

[SkyPilot]

Hee, hee... HE said "Troll"

 

[sugarandspice]

No. The troll uses the dual personality B.S. to insult people and get away with it.

Sugar, is this true? Could Wizard's feelings be hurt by you? And you have been using dual personality B.S.again? Well people I must say just be thankful that Andeverythingnice hasn't shown up yet.

 

[SkyPilot]

Sugar, is this true? Could Wizard's feelings be hurt by you? And you have been using dual personality B.S.again? Well people I must say just be thankful that Andeverythingnice hasn't shown up yet.

You'd think a necromancer could whip up some kind of incantation to ward off "dual personality B.S.", yet, it seems, he is vulnerable...

 

[grandma]

...just be thankful that Andeverythingnice hasn't shown up yet.

Unnnhhh! - Thanks for the warning !!:worried: