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It was a good year to pad your TSP retirement savings. That was especially true over the last couple months of 2023. The 721 active non-premium members of the TSP Talk AutoTracker finished 2023 with a combined average return of 15.5%. That is a respectable return yet an underperformance against any of the three TSP stock funds (C,S,I). Arguably, buy and hold was the strategy this year, but this would not have felt to be the case during the end of October.

On October ...

Happy New Year

This is the 3rd & final of a three-part series starting off 2024 with blogs covering the Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly timeframe.

Ranking 11th of 63, December of 2023 closed up 4.42% making it a Top 17% close across the past 63 months of December. Our MTD intra-high was 5.13% ranking 11th, and our MTD intra-low was -.28% ranking 9th best.


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We are now using a new 63-year timeframe from 1961-2023. Comparing ...

Greetings

This is the 2nd of a three-part series starting off 2024 with blogs covering the Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly timeframe.

Ranking 8th of 63, Q4 of 2023 closed up 11.24% making it a Top 13% close across the past 63 years of 4th Quarters. Our QTD High (not much higher) was 11.78% ranking 13th, and our QTD low was -4.30% ranking 39th best.


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With a new year we roll the statistics forward, and are now using ...

Greetings

This is the 1st of a three-part series starting off 2024 with blogs covering the Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly timeframe.

Ranking 13th of 63, 2023 closed up 24.23% making it a Top 21% close across the past 63 years. Our YTD High (not much higher) was 24.84% ranking 16th, and our YTD low was -1.18% ranking 11th best.

Some might suspect a great 2023 may lead to a bad 2024, here's what this specific set of data tells us. Excluding 2023, of the top-21 ...

The stock market was flat to mixed on Thursday with the Dow and S&P 500 closing with small gains, the Nasdaq ending flat, while small caps and the the I-fund were down modestly. Bonds were down as yields and the dollar moved up. The bears have failed to make any appearance over the last couple of months, nor have we seen any signs of profit taking with one day left to trade in 2023.

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