Tracking TSP Returns

[burrocrat]

Yahoos quotes weren't working early Monday morning for some reason. I guess they never updated them after they came back up.

thanks tsptalk, so they traded normally, just technical difficulties in data service.

i was worried we had a market shutdown or suspended trading or maybe some kook was streaking through the exchange and the traders all got distracted or some such.

[nasa1974]

Grandma, Burrocrat is correct. Your shares will reflect the price per share and the percentage in the account. The example burrocrat used was 13% of $100. It might make more sense if you used $1000. 13% of $1000 is $130, take the $130 and divide it by $13 (cost per share of the C fund, I am using whole numbers) and you end up with 10 shares. Now take $130 and divide it by $17 (cost per share of the S fund) and you have 7.65 shares. Make sense?

[grandma]

thank you, burrocrat & nasa -
The more I ruminate about it, the more I think that I have been aware of it,

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just hadn't digested it enough to keep from being indignant when I Really Noticed it yesterday eve.

... it would sure have been nice for the `S' fund 13% to have been the shares yesterday instead of the balance!

thank you -

[squalebear]

Tom & Friends,

I use MSN Portfolio to track the Market. One HUGE change I made was
utilizing the symbol $EFDY to track the (I) Fund as the EFA is a ETF and
$EFDY represents the actual MSCI EAFE Index. (price and all). The only
problem I noticed is that $EFDY appears to be unique to MSN.