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Sucks when the G fund outperforms you the last two years now! Hoping 2016 is a better investment year for all of us! Happy New Year!
 
Silly question time. Why is it the Wilshire 4500 doesn't show more than a weeks worth of performance online? I may have asked this before, but I don't remember if I did and what the answer was.
 
Viva_La_Migra said:
Silly question time. Why is it the Wilshire 4500 doesn't show more than a weeks worth of performance online? I may have asked this before, but I don't remember if I did and what the answer was.
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Can you provide a link to the site showing the performance?
 
userque said:
Can you provide a link to the site showing the performance?
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I'm using an iPhone app, but I noticed it when I think it was the S fund that tracked the W4500. There used to be a link from TSPTalk, but now I see we track DWCPF, but even that fund doesn't show more than a 5 day chart.
 
Viva_La_Migra said:
I'm using an iPhone app, but I noticed it when I think it was the S fund that tracked the W4500. There used to be a link from TSPTalk, but now I see we track DWCPF, but even that fund doesn't show more than a 5 day chart.
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Sounds like it's an app restriction. Try contacting the developer or try a different app? Maybe, if you reveal the name of the app, someone using an iphone may know?

While I'm not certain what you mean by 'performance,' and without knowing the site you're referring to regarding the tsp talk link, try this:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:DWCPF&ei=1VjaVoH_KdjjsgH-wYnIDQ

or this:

FreeStockCharts.com - Web's Best Streaming Realtime Stock Charts - Free

or this:

^DWCPF: Summary for Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total- Yahoo! Finance

:)
 
Moved out of the market today. I only had time to do my IFT before I had to get to some meetings. Current allocation: 100 G fund.
 
Something went wrong. I thought I had done an IFT in the autotracker on November 2nd, but apparently not. Bummer!
 
Wow, got clobbered today. Hoping this is just a pre-Santa Claus rally shake up to get the weak out of the market.
 
It's been a great start to the year! Mostly made up for that disappointing Santa Claus Rally last year.;damnit

Moved to the G fund. If I am still a good contrarian indicator, the market should take off! Happy investing everyone!
 
Looking for a bottom to jump up from. I have ammo to reinvest, but the question is, will I see the whites of their eyes in time?
 
What to do, what to do? I didn't jump in at the bottom and now it looks like we're about to have a major market move. Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe we have ever intentionally destroyed our economy before. Previous recessions and depressions were typically market driven, not based on false unemployment numbers. I say the numbers are false, because it's not that there aren't jobs out there, it's the state and local governments that are preventing a majority of people from working. Now that we are slowly reopening, will the market go higher, or do the bears have too strong a hold? Anyone have a magic 8 ball that works well? :blink:

This is typically the time I sell in May and go away, but I hate to lock in the reduction in my account value. Then again, the market is nearing a crossroads and would normally drop like a lead balloon with unemployment where it is. Should I regroup in G and hope for a nice Santa Claus Rally, or risk losing more account value by riding the storm?

I'm hesitating, because I'm eligible to retire this year and I'm leaning towards leaving at the end of the year. A few more things need to fall in place, one of them being my TSP bottom line. I'm close to an acceptable level, but I'm not quite where I want to be. Anyway, I'm mostly just thinking out loud, but if anyone would like to provide their insight on where they believe the market is going, I would be happy to hear it. Happy investing everyone.
 
I think it's mainly a momentum-driven market based on faith and hope right now, bolstered by the Fed. The hopeful side of me believes that when we slowly overcome the health and political factors that allow for the return of more employment and a resumption of what people previously considered normal, the market will zoom to a better place than it is today. However, the other side of me says that there's no way we will quickly see a return of the market we had gotten used to prior to COVID-19 because as the reality of what COVID-19 has done to our economy is slowly going to become more apparent over the next months.

So, there's probably really great middle-ground opportunities out there. We're apparently in one of those periods right now. How long will that last? I'm betting on the hopeful side, but I'm watching and keeping an eye out daily.
 
Viva_La_Migra said:
What to do, what to do? I didn't jump in at the bottom and now it looks like we're about to have a major market move. Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe we have ever intentionally destroyed our economy before. Previous recessions and depressions were typically market driven, not based on false unemployment numbers. I say the numbers are false, because it's not that there aren't jobs out there, it's the state and local governments that are preventing a majority of people from working. Now that we are slowly reopening, will the market go higher, or do the bears have too strong a hold? Anyone have a magic 8 ball that works well? :blink:

This is typically the time I sell in May and go away, but I hate to lock in the reduction in my account value. Then again, the market is nearing a crossroads and would normally drop like a lead balloon with unemployment where it is. Should I regroup in G and hope for a nice Santa Claus Rally, or risk losing more account value by riding the storm?

I'm hesitating, because I'm eligible to retire this year and I'm leaning towards leaving at the end of the year. A few more things need to fall in place, one of them being my TSP bottom line. I'm close to an acceptable level, but I'm not quite where I want to be. Anyway, I'm mostly just thinking out loud, but if anyone would like to provide their insight on where they believe the market is going, I would be happy to hear it. Happy investing everyone.
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Decided to go with my rather unreliable gut and lock in my losses. Hoping to get a nice entry point later.
 
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