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Holiday trading- Stocks drifted modestly lower yesterday on light volume. The Dow lost 16-points while S&P 500 and Nasdaq also saw minor losses, but the small caps and Dow Transports closed slightly higher...

Market Commentary for 12/31/10

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Happy New Year!

TSP Talk Sentiment Survey results for the week of 01/03/11 - 01/07/11

Buy Signal: Our Sentiment Survey System moves to a buy signal and 100% S-fund allocation for the week of 01/03/11 - 01/07/11.

The bulls (46%) to bears (39%) ratio is 1.18 to 1, which is a buy signal in a bull market, so the allocation moves to 100% S-Fund.

Friday is a holiday but the market is open and the TSP will be accepting transactions / IFT's.

Bull market rules are ...

Inching higher - Stocks continued to move higher yesterday, although the indices lost steam in the final hour of trading and closed at the day's lows. The Dow gained 9-points during the low volume trading...

Market Commentary for 12/30/10

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Relentless - Stocks continue to sneak higher and despite the very minute moves, we are again seeing new highs in the S&P 500. The Dow gained 20-points but the Nasdaq and Dow Transports were down...


Market Commentary for 12/29/10

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You've got to ask yourself one question

'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? Dirty Harry 1971

Monthly Chart: Today the S&P 500 made yet another 52-Week high. If you look at this months green candlestick you'll see we are near the highs. Going back 10 years there has been only 1 occasion where a green candlestick has closed off its highs. This was in December of 2003 (marked with a white arrow) and the following year traded in a very tight range...
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