In reply to 2 moryrs post on my thread, if I understand your question correctly, I use a number of monitoring techniques. I watch charts for the SP500, EFA and dow wilshire 4500 which correlate to the C, I and S. The I fund is hard because EFA isn't exactly the fund but it is very similar. I use Yahoo finance, symbols ^GSPC, EFA and ^DWCP. I keep an eye on their charts and also watch RSI (14). I try to anticipate pullbacks and runs when the RSI is high (pullbacks) or low (runs). This is not a perfect science. If it was, we would all be rich. Today, for example, I am moving out of stocks since we have had a number of up days in a row. I would expect some profit taking, maybe as soon as this afternoon. When I talked about 2% in the S fund, I was looking for the ^DWCP to go up about 2% after studying its chart and observing that it had pulled back about that much from its 52 week high. The EFA has been range bound the last few weeks so I expect it to break out but can't say if it will be up or down. My guess is up but that is all it is. The down side of my chart reading is I think it has made me more conservative in my investments and it has cost me some gains. Instead of sitting in the I fund, I anticipated an impending market drop which never happened and sat in the G. I missed out on quite a run. Those are my two cents. Hope this was helpful.
Ed
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