Thread: Intrepid_Timer's PUBLIC Account Talk

I wonder if this is what happened to the TSPtalk server today?

"Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a commonplace threat to online businesses. With over 50,000 distinct attacks per week, DDoS attacks have become highly visible and costly forms of cyber-crime, and are increasingly being proactively addressed by online businesses to avoid devastating costs of DDoS-related downtime."

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Originally Posted by Intrepid_Timer

I wonder if this is what happened to the TSPtalk server today?

"Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a commonplace threat to online businesses. With over 50,000 distinct attacks per week, DDoS attacks have become highly visible and costly forms of cyber-crime, and are increasingly being proactively addressed by online businesses to avoid devastating costs of DDoS-related downtime."

http://www.prolexic.com/

Could be. I wondered why you were seemingly absent today. I thought it was perhaps due to lack of trades left for the month or that you were tooling about in your motor home on some vacant stretch of desert high way chasing the horizon.

Originally Posted by Intrepid_Timer

Not necessarily. The C fund may outperform if you are a buy and holder, but since my system is based on trading for shorter periods, I prefer the volatility of the S fund pretty much all the time.

One thing you could look at is, when my system gets it's next buy signal, check to see which fund has dropped the farthest from my previous sell signal. This "may" indicate that it'll bounce back up higher. This will normally just be a choice between the S and I funds though. If you don't mind the I fund, it may be a better choice. I'll stick to the S fund though.....

Thanks for your feedback. The I Fund did work for us this month, despite it's volatility. I'll stick with your recommendations in the future.

Originally Posted by driz

Could be. I wondered why you were seemingly absent today. I thought it was perhaps due to lack of trades left for the month or that you were tooling about in your motor home on some vacant stretch of desert high way chasing the horizon.

As long as I got my satellite internet connection, sounds good to me!!

Originally Posted by Intrepid_Timer

Well, let's see if Obama talking tomorrow night and the Fed announcement on Wed can take this market higher. Dow 12000 coming up. It'll be interesting to see how close they are to raising rates. What if they did Wed?

I would suspect tomorrow will be a slightly down day in anticipation of the aforementioned occurrences................

You watch it I_T and let me know what you think later, I cant stand the site of him. Remember when the Presidential Seal fell off the lectern when he was talking? I believe in Signs.

Originally Posted by FAB1

You watch it I_T and let me know what you think later, I cant stand the site of him. Remember when the Presidential Seal fell off the lectern when he was talking? I believe in Signs.

Sorry, I'll be watching the Lifetime channel with mama...................

The name will be "GreensKeeper".
Thanks for the idea kar crazy! I love the play on words and the fact that I worked at a golf course last year.

Originally Posted by kar crazy

your welcome, any royalties with this , or a coffee mug (THE GREENS KEEPER)

Excellent!
Good goin' KC

Nice to see the small caps outperforming again today. Since my last signal, large caps have outperformed and have been in the green while small caps have lagged. Today should bring them back into the green also. Although I we'll probably get some volatility while the day traders play their little games, I still expect small caps to post a nice return. Looks like my system may be setting up for a sell signal tomorrow so we may not be getting that usual pop at the beginning of month in Feb. Guess we shall see.................

Good nitty gritty commentary today, I_T

I-T, thanks for helping us newbies out, I missed your last sell signal and got stuck in the F fund for one extra day so I'm lagging behind a bit. Anyway, the question I have is do you have advice for any of us who also carry a Roth IRA? I'm currently with Vanguard (who has funds very similar to TSP), but with Vanguard, you can't buy into a fund for two months once you've sold your shares. Therefore, your system unfortunately does not work for Vanguard roth IRAs. I'm just trying to find a good system for my Roth, I guess there is the dreaded *gulp* buy-and-hold strategy.

Thanks again I_T.

If you owned individual stocks inside your Roth IRA the buy and hold strategy would be perfect - it takes time for good gains to grow.