Thread: amoeba's Account Talk

Originally Posted by tsptalk

I wonder if fractional allocations are the reason after gains / losses?

If S is actually 38.4% for instance, C is 2.6%, and G is 59% and you move to 35% S and G to 62%, then C actually goes up from 2.6% to 3.0%.

Just speculating.

Per my post #4449, that was my speculation too, however, I could not prove it sufficiently to TSP to investigate...but now I have printed screenshots with the rejection and subsequent acceptance, so they'll hear from me again. Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by amoeba

So:

IFT screwups continue. After 2 IFT's, TSP does NOT allow you to make a third to just G if you have more than one equity fund (i.e., C and S). You have to reduce BOTH C and S allocations or it will be rejected. This happened twice now. This time, I made a printout of the warning screen rejecting the IFT, the next attempt (in which both C and S are reduced) was accepted.

Example: if S is 38% and C is 3% (G 59%); you may NOT reduce S only to 35% and leave C at 3%, increasing G to 62%. It will be rejected. If you reduce to 36% S and 2% C, increasing G to 62%, it will be accepted.

I liked this post for the information, but not the message. They need to work out the links on that ASAP, unless they planned it that way. Nuts!!


Scott Harrison
Senatobia, MS

It looks like it is thinking you are making the <1% IFT we used to get away with. Honestly it shouldn't matter what whole number you put in any of your funds regardless of a percentage point as long as it adds up to 100%. An IFT is an IFT as long as it's your first or second for the month. Do you still see the percentage point in your fund allocation? Someone needs to fix some code somewhere.

Originally Posted by nasa1974

It looks like it is thinking you are making the <1% IFT we used to get away with. Honestly it shouldn't matter what whole number you put in any of your funds regardless of a percentage point as long as it adds up to 100%. An IFT is an IFT as long as it's your first or second for the month. Do you still see the percentage point in your fund allocation? Someone needs to fix some code somewhere.

If you mean does it show decimal fractions, nahhh, they stopped doing that awhile back when they re-wrote the code. You were able to round up for awhile there. That stopped, and so did the fractions. Just round numbers now.

Originally Posted by amoeba

If you mean does it show decimal fractions, nahhh, they stopped doing that awhile back when they re-wrote the code. You were able to round up for awhile there. That stopped, and so did the fractions. Just round numbers now.

Thanks. They really did screw it up. Maybe 2.0 will make it better.

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Originally Posted by amoeba

If you mean does it show decimal fractions, nahhh, they stopped doing that awhile back when they re-wrote the code. You were able to round up for awhile there. That stopped, and so did the fractions. Just round numbers now.

Not sure if this helps; from Ravensfan...

ravensfan's Account Talk

So a big spike at 12:45pm today (2/15/2024), maybe peeling off just a bit. What happened? Some number just come out (GDP/other)?

Sell, Mortimer, SELL!