Thread: I'm new here!

Welcome to the boards! Good luck with growing your TSP!

Originally Posted by gatrhumpy

OK, so a co-worker turned me onto this site. I have been lurking for a couple of hours now, and it seems a lot of people are very knowledgeable when it comes to TSP stuff.

About the ebbtracker. I have been looking at it, and I'm very confused at what some of the numbers mean. For example, it seems the author is somewhat contradictory. He says that for tomorrow (Friday, August 31st), that the I fund is bad (hence the stop), but that you should still keep 100% of your money in the I fund? I'm confused. What about the rest of the numbers? Why are some numbers positive (yield a positive return) while the color is red?

Welcome gatrhumpy...
Read the whole ebbtracker page and you will find the answers to your questions. (Also look for this notes about contrarian moves.)
http://www.tsptalk.com/ebbchart.html

Originally Posted by ChemEng

Welcome to the boards! Good luck with growing your TSP!

Thanks. Do you know of a thread that explains all the numbers and stuff about the ebbtracker? I'm interested in the details about how it works.

Originally Posted by budnipper1

Welcome gatrhumpy...
Read the whole ebbtracker page and you will find the answers to your questions. (Also look for this notes about contrarian moves.)
http://www.tsptalk.com/ebbchart.html

Meh. I'm still somewhat confused.

Does anyone use Excel to track their investments and use numbers to calculate stuff (percentage return, etc.)?

OK, it's going to take some time to absorb all the info on TSPTalk. It will start making sense after you've had time to browse through everything. As far as how the Ebbtracker works, you'd have to ask Ebb about that. For me, it's not that important. The track records speaks for itself. I suggest that you go to Ebb's talk thread and post your questions about his system. Here's the link:
ebbnflow's Account Talk

Originally Posted by budnipper1

OK, it's going to take some time to absorb all the info on TSPTalk. It will start making sense after you've had time to browse through everything. As far as how the Ebbtracker works, you'd have to ask Ebb about that. For me, it's not that important. The track records speaks for itself. I suggest that you go to Ebb's talk thread and post your questions about his system. Here's the link:
ebbnflow's Account Talk

Thanks.

Originally Posted by gatrhumpy

Meh. I'm still somewhat confused.

Does anyone use Excel to track their investments and use numbers to calculate stuff (percentage return, etc.)?

The 2007 TSP Returns Calculator is here. It's an Excel spreadsheet to track your TSP trades and returns.

Also, I invite you to try TSPLookup.

Originally Posted by budnipper1

As far as how the Ebbtracker works, you'd have to ask Ebb about that.
ebbnflow's Account Talk

It's Magic!

Welcome gatrhumpy! We were acquainted via PM, but I want to officially welcome you.

The ebbcahrt is based on backtesting results. Certain patterns of $ and stop signs, proved more profitable than others. The numbers are the returns of past allocations and historical chart pattern (red or green) results.

Originally Posted by jayhawker

The 2007 TSP Returns Calculator is here. It's an Excel spreadsheet to track your TSP trades and returns.

Also, I invite you to try TSPLookup.

Holy crap! I'm only up 5.61% since I started tracking on January 3rd, 2007! Ugggggggggh.

That's not bad actually. The ebbchart is just in another league.