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The market's performance last week was quite mixed. It isn't all that often that the 3 TSP stock funds have such a wide range of end-of-week performance, but they did last week as the C fund ended almost flat with a very modest 0.09% gain, while the I fund was down 0.47% and the S fund jumped higher by 1.7%.

Obviously, if you were in stocks last week you wanted to be in the S fund. But it was probably just a matter of time before the S fund caught up (to some extent) with the C fund ...

The last month of the trading year is my favorite. For myself, it’s a time of reflection of the year’s past and preparation for our next year’s future. Good or bad, it’s when we lock in our yearly performance, and if we’re lucky, we get to apply those learned lesson, and carry them forward.

Statistically speaking, December is an awesome month to be invested, with both the SPX & W4500 recording both strong winning ratios and average returns. For SPX, 17% of the year’s average monthly ...