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September 5, 2008
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Number of Shares
Garrison
Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:16 AM
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People who are nervous and thinking about selling their TSP stock funds should take a closer look at the number of shares their money is now buying. It makes me feel a lot better. :)
Re: Number of Shares
NOAA
Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:49 AM
Buy low and sell high
Labor
Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:22 AM
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Buy when the stock market dips and sell when it rises. That is the only way you can make any money right now. For example, if I buy and sell and 6 times a year on the dips and rises I will have made far more money than just holding...forever... You can do this despite the fact we are now limited to 2 trades per month.
Smith: Riding out a votaile stock market
USDA Forest Service
Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:35 AM
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While agreeing that since the great depression the stock market did usually follow the long term trend of advancing. I am very uneasy in the bubble aspect that the Wall Street speculators have caused and will into the future. With this housing scam that the paper pushers have created who really knows what will finally happen. I firmly believe that the government made a terrible choice in the Bear Stearns bail out. Public money is being used to reward criminals who should lose their shirts and those of their investors. Many people should be jailed for this pyramid scheme. If the government is going to bail out a private investment companies well then they better have some capital to use as collateral, and accept regulations as tight as or even tighter than the regular banks submit to. I would say that the stock market has never been in such a comprised position with our government as a major part of the problem with our federal deficit and the never ending bottomless pit called Iraq where all of our tax dollars are going to finance a megalomaniac's goal of being a war time president and sacking Saddam because of a perceived threat against his daddy, which may in fact have been a lie just to make the Kuwaitis look better since we bailed them out in 1991. On a final note one of the reasons that oil prices are so high is that curmudgeon speculators have created a bubble so to speak with their crazy actions which enable the middle east and the oil companies to stick it to the consumer each and every day since we must get to work and we must have heat for our homes.
Re: Smith: Riding out a votaile stock market
supervisor
Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:43 AM
Buy or Sell TSP
HHS
Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:25 PM
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I'm very reluctant to "lock-in" losses, which as noted in the article is caused by a sell order. As a result, I see down markets as buying opportunities. Since my retirement time-horizon is out more than five years, there is plenty of time to recover any "paper" losses. Using dollar cost averaging principles, buying when the market is down means the average cost basis of portfolio shares decreases resulting in better total returns as the market rises. I say buy.
Re: Buy or Sell TSP
DON
Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:45 PM
correct dates please?
usfs
Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:28 PM
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Ralph, Don't know how to trust the data with as many date clitches I see (i.e. "beginning with "June 83" but chart "begins" with "03" ???? Thanks for a revision to come.
Re: correct dates please?
FedSmith.com
Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:16 PM
I could have added other dates into the chart but only included data for the biggest 15-day drops since June 1983.
TSP ADJUSTMENTS
US Navy
Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:59 AM
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I lopok at the drop in stock prices as an opportunity to buy. Remember dollar cost averaging? I am all in stock funds and will stay there and weather this storm.
Charts
DHS
Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:31 AM
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Charts are invaluable for tracking price momentum, but I have yet to find any for the TSP funds. Ralph, is there any way someone can program and provide a 3-mth, 6-mth, 1-yr, 2-yr, 3-yr and 5-yr chart for each fund? Let us know when and where to click. Thank you.