Thread: nasa1974's Account Talk

Interesting day yesterday! I agree with some of the other MB members that the noon deadline is so counterproductive.
I am going to make a preemptive strike today. I will be out of touch for most of the day, going to be in a retirement seminar today and Thursday. Adjusting my percentages with the <1% move. Good luck everybody.

Tuff market today. It's red, no green, no red again, wait it just went green, dang red again. I am getting whiplash watching the market today. Did a <1% move today to keep the account at 78,6,5,5,6 and add a few shares. Good Luck to all.

Down market today. Did a <1% rebalance to maintain 78,6,5,5,6 in account. Hope to pick up a few shares.

Noon deadline sure can hurt sometimes. C and I just went positive. What a crazy market.

I've been playing a trend since march ..make sure I'm in on the last and first days of the month then out for the gradual pullback thru midmonth; I get back in and stay thru the first of the following month. Doing ok, recouped.

The rally has been pretty good lately.
In my real account I am +5%, but that includes my deposits. But positive non the less. Considering that in early March I was -17.23% from 1/1/09 and -27.84% from 1/1/08. I'm still a -8.5% from my high point at the end of 2007, but slowly chipping away. So I have about two years to reach a new high. Yep, 2012 is my retirement target date.
Last Tuesday and Thursday I went to a retirement seminar. Probably should have gone to one about 10 years ago, but that is water under the bridge. Thursday we listened to a financial advisor about our TSP. Sure wish I had the opportunity about 15 years ago. I guess where I am going with this is if you have at least 10-15 before retirement and your organization offers a retirement seminar. Take it. I thought it was very informative.

L2R,

It is always great when you stop by.

Well August ended on a negative note and was a bit on the volitile side, but not a bad month overall. I ended the month at +5.11 and YTD at a +4.97. From an early March low of -17.23 that is a 22% increase. On the Fantasy TSP Tracker, that would put me in the top 20. Well maybe not since some folks out there did better than 22%. DARN!!!

I updated my Excel spreadsheet through August. Attached is the part of the spreadsheet that shows the account totals through August. If anyone is interested I can show the indivdual accounts. Just ask and I will attach the information.
In August for the <1% account I performed 9 <1% moves. By August 10th the funds looked like this 0,5,31,32,32 (GFCSI). Since I was using the G fund to feed the other funds I reset back to 80,5,5,5,5 on August 13th. So for the next 4 months I will continue the <1% option vs the Buy & Hold accounts and we will see who the winner is.
The account leader is still the <1% option with $121,849.91. Followed by I, S, (30,35,35), C and (80,5,5,5,5).
Enjoy.

[quote=nasa1974;229474] I ended the month at +5.11 [quote]

Good job NASA1974 I was too conserative (again) and lost a tiny bit. Perhaps September will smile upon us.

I am not watching the market real close but in less than an hour the S fund went from a +1.00% to a -1.54%. WOW!! What is going on???