Thread: DOW not matching S Fund share prices

I thought the Wilshire 4500 (^W4500) was what one uses to track the S Fund?

Danny

Well, what I see on the TSP menu investment fund, fund options is: "The S Fund's investment objective is to match the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total Stock Market Index". I have read the wilshire 4500 somewhere in TSP website info, but this is what they have under this menu. When they use the words Dow Jones in this statement I take it means that they are somewhat paralleling the end of the day DOW numbers.

I noticed down at the bottom of this page TSP TALK put the fund chart matching the wall street acronyms. I.E.; S&P (C FUND), DOW (S FUND); ETC., ETC.

S&P 500 (C fund) 1d 5d 3m 6m 1y 2y

Dow Completion (S fund) 1d 5d 3m 6m

EFA (I fund) 1d 5d 3m 6m 1y 2y

Bonds (F fund) 1d 5d 3m 6m 1y 2y

At the bottom if TSP Talk I always see 4 charts that are linked to Yahoo.com...They are:
S&P 500 = C
W4500 = S
EFA= I
AGG = F
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) closed higher Friday up 0.02%.
But the W4500 Dow Completion (S Fund) chart closed down -0.66%...





Danny

I found out online the TSP board changed from Wilshire 4500 to this Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total Stock Market Index in February 2012. Below is the website if you want to see who TSP paid for the recommended change and the Hewitt report. TSP alone should have a chat line where all applicants can talk about their concerns and recommendations.

www.frtib.gov/pdf/minutes/MM-2012Feb-Att6.pdf

Originally Posted by Lionjudah1

I found out online the TSP board changed from Wilshire 4500 to this Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total Stock Market Index in February 2012. Below is the website if you want to see who TSP paid for the recommended change and the Hewitt report. TSP alone should have a chat line where all applicants can talk about their concerns and recommendations.

www.frtib.gov/pdf/minutes/MM-2012Feb-Att6.pdf

Well, that is a surprise. Thanks for the info.

With that information I went to the net to find the ticker symbol for Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total Stock Market Index which is DWCPF and plugged that into Yahoofinance symbol search window. and it came up with Fridays ending result for I guess we could now call the S Fund/DWCPF:
Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total (^DWCPF)

-DJI707.77 4.81(0.68%) Oct 12

So going to the DOW numbers doesn't give the correct information on the ups and downs of the S Fund. It appears the symbol DWCPF is what you watch at to parallel the S Fund and what it is doing. Previous post I had the DWCPF transposed. All of this is what I suppose. I'm just a student in all of this. But I wish we had a chat line on the TSP website so we could get straight-line info within that community. I didn't see in their information that they even had the symbol DWCPF in the explanation of the S Fund, so I don't know even know for sure if my assumptions are correct with this symbol.

I believe the Wilshire 4500 tracks the S fund.

Originally Posted by respro

I believe the Wilshire 4500 tracks the S fund.

Disregard, forgot to read the thread befote posting.

Originally Posted by Lionjudah1

I noticed down at the bottom of this page TSP TALK put the fund chart matching the wall street acronyms. I.E.; S&P (C FUND), DOW (S FUND); ETC., ETC.

It's called the Dow completion index (S fund) but the call letters are W4500 where the bold letters below that are located. That is what to look for. The actual Dow only has 20 stocks and our S fund has 4500 stocks. The next 4500 after the to 500 or S&p 500 in size. The S is fo small cap.

"The actual Dow only has 20 stocks"?

I thought it was 30 stocks.