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11/18/11

Stocks sold-off again yesterday as Spain's 10-year bond yield is now flirting with joining the 7% club. The Dow did close nearly 100-points off of the low, but was still down 135-points on the day.



For the TSP, the C-fund lost 1.68% yesterday, the S-fund fell 1.71%, the I-fund dropped 0.96%, and the F-fund ...

TSP Talk Sentiment Survey results for the week of 11/21/11- 11/25/11

Sell: The TSP Talk Sentiment Survey came in at 49% bulls, 39% bears, for a bulls to bears ratio of 1.26 to 1. That is a sell signal in a bear market which means the system will remain 100% G Fund for the week of 11/21/11 - 11/25/11.

Bear market rules are in affect 8/22/11:

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Well, the Seven Sentinels official sell signal yesterday certainly seems a bit prophetic at the moment, but this market could be trying to fake out the bears again, so I'm not ready to fully embrace this sell signal. Although with only a 20% exposure to the market I'm not taking a whole lot of risk anyway.

The market spent most of the morning session chopping around the neutral line (mostly lower) until about noon time EST, and then the selling pressure kicked in and took the major ...

11/17/11

Stocks dropped yesterday on more, you guessed it, eurozone fears. After climbing from an early steep loss back into positive territory, the market dove into the close and the Dow finished down 190-points.


For the TSP, the C-fund lost 1.63% yesterday, the S-fund fell 1.57%, the I-fund dropped 1.38%, and the F-fund ...

The market started out significantly lower at the open today, but once again found its footing near support at which time it fought back to neutral territory. At times the market even managed to trade with modest gains, but a late day selling surge took the major averages much lower in the final hour of trade. At the close the averages were at their lows of the day sporting significant losses.

Today's losses are being blamed in large measure on a report from Fitch, which indicated ...