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    I think if I get out this week, I will be headed to G because F isn't sending any good signals. I need to look at the I fund more to see if there is an opportunity there on the way back to safety. Seems like International is a few steps ahead of us with respect to Covid but not sure how much that is driving the market vs. "baked in already"

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    I moved 75% out of S yesterday and into C (50%) and I (25%) on my way to G. I think we may have hit the top and I think that S will fall the fastest, but not sure if we will get a boost from the Feds, or more vaccine news or a COVID payout or if like me, there are alot of people thinking that there is nowhere else to put their money. G is losing to inflation with no upside. Yes S,C, and I can lose more but there is still potential upside so I am going to wait and see how today plays out before I retreat to G for the rest of August.

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    Good idea! I noticed at this point, looks like I fund has dropped below 80 on Slow Stochastic (losing embedded reading) but has 1 day to re-embed or I guess I will pull my measly 5% to G fund! lol.... .... S and C still embedded above 80 ! Best wishes to you and everyone!
    Don't take my comments as trading advice /IFT: 2-13-24=100G/https://www.theepochtimes.com/ & http://www.ewg.org/PermaCharts@p430#5159/strategy#4918p.410


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    So today is the biweekly deposit so if C is down, that is my silver lining - buying low. I am still not seeing the retreat signals - NAAIM tomorrow? VIX still low, still on the high side of the Bollinger bands, above the moving averages - like it is defying gravity. Still 50C, 25S and 25I

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    Looks like the pros are expecting the bulls to continue to dominate: the NAAIM jumped up to 102.93 (from 73.05 last week and 58.25 the week before).

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    New thought - applying the "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered" principle to monthly TSP trading. If I can exit during a month having made over 3%, I should. String enough 3% months together and you have a phenomenal return, even if a few months are negative. Riding it up, hoping to make 4% or 5% or more is being piggish and can get you slaughtered (case in point, my October results). There were 3 days in a row that I could have exited with a 3% gain, but instead I stayed and ended up with a 3% loss for the month. Knowing I couldn't get right back in after using my two IFTS kept me in through to November.

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    So we are past that 3% gain rule for February that would cause you to think "maybe I shold get out and wait until next month" but I go back to my November 4, 2020 post and notice that November turned out to be the month to ride the S fund to an 18% gain, followed by a 7% December. So just hitting a 3% mark and taking the money off the table results in significant missed gains. What a crazy game this is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flalaw97 View Post
    So we are past that 3% gain rule for February that would cause you to think "maybe I shold get out and wait until next month" but I go back to my November 4, 2020 post and notice that November turned out to be the month to ride the S fund to an 18% gain, followed by a 7% December. So just hitting a 3% mark and taking the money off the table results in significant missed gains. What a crazy game this is.
    We seem to be in the neighborhood of "these are good problems to have." Like I said many days ago, rather than getting so worried, I would have been much better off to ride the wave, then I'm not so upset when I get caught in a one, two or five percent downturn. It seems like a solid strategy until the market acts a little more well-behaved.
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    Quote Originally Posted by flalaw97 View Post
    So we are past that 3% gain rule for February that would cause you to think "maybe I shold get out and wait until next month" but I go back to my November 4, 2020 post and notice that November turned out to be the month to ride the S fund to an 18% gain, followed by a 7% December. So just hitting a 3% mark and taking the money off the table results in significant missed gains. What a crazy game this is.
    Yesterday I saw that if things held, I would be over 3% for March and still had 2 IFTs, so I took it off the table. Now to decide when to get back in (I like being in on the first of the month). I still feel like you have to be in it to win it, but if I can get back in after a brief dip, all the better. Those big green spikes on the March seasonality chart have me wondering if I am going to miss the best of this March but when I see a gain in March, compared to last years March loss, I may be o.k. with that.

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    I have been finding of late, and this could change any time (once a pattern is recognized, it will change) that dips have been brief and not very deep (save for the last one, which I discussed in my thread), so waiting for a dip to get back in can result in getting back in at a higher price than the exit. Given IFT limits, and the month long time frame to work with them, a swing trade of any kind can take weeks to set up, if even possible. On top of that, often missing the exit at the high and moving out on the drop, then missing the pop on the other side of the dip makes it even less profitable.
    50% S, 50% C 06 Mar, was 100% G; 80% S 20% C COB 08 Jan '24; 100% G COB 14 Nov; was 100% C COB 31 Oct (Boo!); was 100% G COB 12 Oct; was 50% C, 50% S COB 22 Jun; Life is good!

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    NAAIM up today from 78 to 97. So the "smart money" active money managers are more bullish than they have been in months...

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    Do the Lifecycle funds adjust their holdings daily to maintain the publicized ratios? In other words, do the lifecycle funds to an IFT every day to ensure that say L2065 is the targeted mix (today at 50% C, 15% S and 35% I fund - slowly adding in more F and G)? Does that amount to "dollar cost averaging" - since we only get 2 IFT per month, it looks like Lifecycle gets unlimited.


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