Thread: <1%IFT Option

Originally Posted by dannyboy

"Do I have 1 IFT left for April (100% G)" or 2
"my other regularly allotted IFT of the 2 IFT's per month and the default (100% G)",

I know what you're thinking, punk.
You're thinking, did he fire 1 IFT or none?
Well to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being as this is an IFT Limitation .44 Magnum, the most powerful regulation in the world and will blow your transaction capability clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?

If you reach again Dirty Harry may end your options for this month.

Is there any way to find out how many IFT Transactions you have available?

Otherwise, DannyBoy, do ya feel lucky

Cute and very appropriate,
I like that, that was exactly the movie scene that I was thinking of as I wrote that message. The reality of course, will be in the hands of the devil, TSP Administration. I'm sorry to see that this mess. got yanked from the active archives, but OH, WELL, just let things be and hopefully therfe is some TSP guru out there who knows the answer and will reply?

Originally Posted by Boghie

I know what you're thinking, punk.
You're thinking, did he fire 1 IFT or none?
Well to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being as this is an IFT Limitation .44 Magnum, the most powerful regulation in the world and will blow your transaction capability clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?

If you reach again Dirty Harry may end your options for this month.

Is there any way to find out how many IFT Transactions you have available?

Otherwise, DannyBoy, do ya feel lucky

Here is the spreadsheet that I used for the <1% and the Buy & Hold numbers. It was a large file so I had to break it down into smaller ones. Dang 244KB limit. Enjoy!!!

Originally Posted by nasa1974

Here is the spreadsheet that I used for the <1% and the Buy & Hold numbers. It was a large file so I had to break it down into smaller ones. Dang 244KB limit. Enjoy!!!

I had the same problem with the Guide I posted a few days back !
Thanks Nasa, I'll take a look at them ASAP.

Originally Posted by squalebear

Please update us when you find out, but Satan's Crib would be my guess

Update: 2nd IFT made today L-Inc-100%
I'm sorry for clogging up your '1<IFT' thread.
Ref:
It was early in the morning when I geeked and I made the first move at around 9:00 am. I kept reviewing different; posts, links, thoughts, theories, etc. and I decided that maybe this guy's or that girl's idea was better than mine, so I changed it. Through previous experience I had found out that whatever IFT setup that you have in there at noon is the one that is recorded. Well after changing that once, twice, three, four times, before noon, it seemed to shut me down for commiting to many IFT changes. The TSP system just seemed to wipe clean everything that I had done. The next day, I came in and looked at my IFT funds and I was 100% G fund. I took that thought to mean my multiple changes were deleted and I was now free and clear (good to go) with 2 IFT's for the month of April. I was able to make a IFT change, right then, and right now I'm wondering,
"Do I have 1 IFT left for April (100% G)" or 2?
*******The answer that you may want to know is that if you submit more than IFT (w/me 4-5) and confirm BEFORE NOON it will stop that thansaction and put you back where you were before you started.

Originally Posted by dannyboy

Well after changing that once, twice, three, four times, before noon, it seemed to shut me down

As far as second guessing yourself...dang, I thought I was bad.

Originally Posted by dannyboy

"Do I have 1 IFT left for April (100% G)" or 2?

You can go back to 100G even if you have used your 2 IFT's.

Originally Posted by KevinD

You can go back to 100G even if you have used your 2 IFT's.

I think his intention is to go back in or add more from the (G), but he's not
sure if he has 1 left or zero. My suggestion would be to make one (just to see)
and then cancel it immediately there after. That will give you the answer you seek.
Do it early and not near the deadline. Hope this helps !

I just posted a article on my Squalebear's Account Thread
and believe that many of you will find it informative and give
alot of the newer members a sense of the basics.

I like what I'm seeing in Asia and Europe. This has little to do with my
<1%IFT Thread but I wanted the thread close so I could find it easier.

SqaleBear,

Thanks for providing this info on the '<1%' transaction. It made me some money after my 'Lilly Pad' dump in late March.

I sat here on this MB a while back and blathered about not using one of the valuable IFT transactions for backward trades - and, then I do so. I thought I was the smartest of the smart. Live and Learn.

Time to start playing the Goldilocks Allocation strategy again. I can mentally handle a 20% tanking in the market (a couple of STDs) but that 50% dumping got me spooked. Fear and this site (with the wonderful knowledge available) helped contain the losses, but only I can heal what’s inside. Investing the way I am now will leave me in Alpo on retirement!

Originally Posted by Boghie

SqualeBear,

Thanks for providing this info on the '<1%' transaction. It made me some money after my 'Lilly Pad' dump in late March.
The <1%IFT has been an option since the FRTIB dumped on the
TSP Participants in April 2008. It's not a guarantee money maker,
but it is an option that most of us never knew about. It opens up
the mind to the Market and forces us to question our true risk
tolerance. Many of us would rather gamble on small losses, then
be locked in (G) Jail with little to do but question our decision.

I sat here on this MB a while back and blathered about not using one of the valuable IFT transactions for backward trades - and, then I do so. I thought I was the smartest of the smart. Live and Learn.
...or Live and Burn. One of the smartest decisions I've ever made
was to move furniture between 11:00am - 12:00pm (est). In other
words, sometimes the Best Decision is NOT to make one. Bad ones
end up good and Good ones end up bad. Over the last year and a
half, It's been like we've been playing the Lottery or looking into a
Crystal Ball for guidance. You've been (obviously) more right then
wrong as your up on a YTD basis. Congratulations are in order.

Time to start playing the Goldilocks Allocation strategy again. I can mentally handle a 20% tanking in the market (a couple of STDs) but that 50% dumping got me spooked. Fear and this site (with the wonderful knowledge available) helped contain the losses, but only I can heal what’s inside. Investing the way I am now will leave me in Alpo on retirement!

I don't know if it's time for Kudlow's Mustard Seeds to bloom, but
the losses felt around the world spooked everyone. The fact that
you were capable of containing the damage shows you have a firm
grasp of the tools you have available and put them to good use.
Don't heal whats inside of you, as it keeps you honest and out of
harms way. Alpo sounds terrible, but it beats Gov't Cheese locked
in a warehouse for decades. Food for thought. (pun intended)