I'm in

[zbwmy]

Moved 20% from C Fund intothe S Fund for Wednesday's opening.

Now at 80% C 20% S

[tsptalk]

Cool. What happened to the S fund today? I thought the interest rate news would make them happy.

[AllexBancs]

zbwmy - nice move. Welcome to the small caps. AB:cool:

[zbwmy]

AllexBancs,

My first move in 15 years (20% to S), and at noon Wed. looks like a winner. I'm feeling bullet proof.

[AllexBancs]

zbwmy - you are the Warren Buffet of the TSP. Few moves, but you make them count. Any thoughts about entering a position in the other funds? Keep us updated. :cool:

[Wheels]

zbwmy moved one fifth of his money from the C to the S. I'm glad he is loosening up a bit (perhaps from reading posts on this board) and while the S did outperform the C today (1.55% to 1.17%), perhaps comparisons to Berkshire-Hathaway are a bit premature.

Dave

[AllexBancs]

Wheels - point taken. :cool:

[zbwmy]

zbwmy wrote: Moved 20% from C Fund intothe S Fund for Wednesday's opening.

Now at 80% C 20% S



According to my primative calculations, since I made the move to the S Fund on 3/16 my earnings are as follows.

Last 15 Days:

S Fund - 4.7%

C Fund - 2.5%

I am a long term investor, I welcome suggestions on my next move.

Mark

[tsptalk]

Long term investors should be in stocks as you are now. Maybe get a bit more aggressive with S and I.

[NatX]

Are you making a move today? If so where?

Thanks!

Natalie

[zbwmy]

No move today, want to see the close.

[RadarKing]

:( Not a good move there, ZBWMY. The best gains in the next 2-3 month cycle will be in the C Fund.

[zbwmy]

RadarKing,

Welcome to the Forum. Where are your allocations? How many years do you have until retirement? Are you an aggressive investor?

I have 80% in C Fund, do you think I need to to move the rest in there and therefor eliminate 5300 companies from my portfolio and just stick with the 500?

[RadarKing]

I don't really understand the reference to the 5300 stocks. In fact, I don't really understand any of this stuff, which is why I made a statement above about the C fund outperforming without backing it up at all. The truth is I'm not a very attractive man and my co-workers don't like me very much, so this is really the only way I have of interacting with people.

RadarKing

[Ecurb]

Radar,

There are 500 stocks in the c fund and 5300 in the S fund where Zbwmy moved 20% of his previously 100 % C thus 80% C and 20% S. ( I missed the move and as Tom, I am still 100% G and hoping for a pull back:(...)

Ecurb

[NatX]

As they say, misery loves company.:?

[darkwoods2001]

I use MSN money manager to track my investments. I was using the symbol $EMW.X. to track the Wilshire 4500 fund. It stopped up dating this month. Does any one have a good substitute.
I have not transfered funds often in the past and lost a lot of my investment during the melt down.I was 100% C until the S fund opened. 3/11/04 I went 60 S ,40 I.I went 50-50 S & I 5/10/04.It my be time to hold some C fund.

[Ecurb]

Darkwoods,

I have used EMW as well, however after reading your post I went to 'BigCharts.com' . Use '95899w10'. It works...:)

Ecurb

[tsptalk]

darkwoods2001 wrote: I use MSN money manager to track my investments. I was using the symbol $EMW.X. to track the Wilshire 4500 fund. It stopped up dating this month. Does any one have a good substitute.

Also "finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^EMW"

[FundSurfer]

http://www.wilshire.com/Indexes/Broad/Wilshire4500/

In June the TSP board changed to tracking the Dow Jones Wilshire 4500 Completion Index. Symbol ^DWCPF

Yahoo chart

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^DWCPF&d=t

[FundSurfer]

I noticed that Tom uses ^DWCP instead of ^DWCPF. The F has to do with "free-float" adjusted. (has adjustment for market capitalization??)

I'm already saying more than I understand. Anyway thought it was interesting.

[eukrate]

A quote from their press release:

"The Dow Jones Wilshire indexes will be free-float weighted, using the existing Dow Jones Indexes free-float methodologies that remove corporate shares that are not available for public trading. "
http://www.djindexes.com/downloads/meth_info/DJWilshire5_45_Method.pdf

In other words, they're both market-cap weighted but the float factors used in constructing dwcpf adjust the index by removing insider-owned shares. The full-cap weighted index, dwcp, reflects ALL shares. They almost the same ( they're identical prior to July 2004), but dwcpf is probably closer to the TSP S fund.

[FundSurfer]

Thanks! That actually makes sense.