Greetings from St Louis Mo

**merlin** · 02-12-2007, 02:04 AM

Hello All,

Another newbie, who has actually been around for a couple of years. I have been investing in the TSP since 1987. I've made fairly good gains during those years. Took a good loss during the 2000 and 2001 slump. At this point hanging in there with an account worth 3xx,xxx wondering what was the next step. I tried to locate a personal finance advisor that new enough about TSP but gave up. Then one day I was looking up the address for TSP on the internet to find out if there something or someone out there and spotted TSP TALK. I am very thankful.

George

**Show-me** · 02-12-2007, 02:33 AM

Let me jump in a say, Hello George!!! Glad you are here!

Not being able to find anyone with knowledge about TSP outside of this MB is common ground.

**nnuut** · 02-12-2007, 02:49 AM

Welcome Merlin, are you a wizard? Best of luck with your investments, we need all the magic we can get!

Norman

**tsptalk** · 02-12-2007, 06:59 PM

Hi merlin! Glad you decided to join us on the board!

Tom

**Remo** · 02-16-2007, 09:35 AM

Howdy Merlin,
Welcome aboard. I'm new to this whole thing also. The learning curve is steep but a lot of fun. There are a lot of very smart professionals and amateurs on this board and I'm learning a lot. Everyone is very friendly and helpful.
I have about half of what you do in my TSP and I learned the hard way, the last week in December and the first week of January, that it's real easy to lose money if you don't have a plan! Right now I've got pretty close to the L2040 allocation in Remo's account and I'm taking it easy and watching about three different strategies. I figure by the end of this year I should have a pretty good idea of which strategies I will use on my TSP over the next 10-13 years.

Best of luck to ya.
Remo