Daily strategy questions
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Daily strategy questions
Dear all,
Just a couple of things I've been wondering:
1. In terms of the daily strategies, could it be that more importantly than a "historical pattern" it has been discovered when funds pay their typical dividends? I.e. the days when its suggested to be in one fund its best to be there because the share price goes up (typically)?
2. How does the daily strategy (which is quite similar for most) compare to the other seasonal strategies for this year (YTD)? It would be interesting to see a dynamic score compared to the other seasonal plans.
3. What would have been different if I were to say, place 100% all in I this whole year or place it in a daily strategy?
Just wondering a few things.
Best,
Me
Just a couple of things I've been wondering:
1. In terms of the daily strategies, could it be that more importantly than a "historical pattern" it has been discovered when funds pay their typical dividends? I.e. the days when its suggested to be in one fund its best to be there because the share price goes up (typically)?
2. How does the daily strategy (which is quite similar for most) compare to the other seasonal strategies for this year (YTD)? It would be interesting to see a dynamic score compared to the other seasonal plans.
3. What would have been different if I were to say, place 100% all in I this whole year or place it in a daily strategy?
Just wondering a few things.
Best,
Me
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Re: Daily strategy questions
All your answers can be found through tspcalc. You're able to compare several mixes at once, so for example you can set it up to compare whatever strategy you're using vs. I fund all year vs. Gclappers mix. If you're not familiar with doing this, look on the very bottom of the section on tspcalc that "seasonal calculator" and you can pick to compare predefined seasonal strategies, or against other formulas. Guarantee that all the mixes that have ever been discussed in tspcenter already have their own seasonal strat #, but I don't have that list available. Matt might, the creator of the calculator.
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Good point. I saw that question 2 was addressed there. I was hoping that something could come here, but maybe at year's end.Jokerswild wrote:All your answers can be found through tspcalc. You're able to compare several mixes at once, so for example you can set it up to compare whatever strategy you're using vs. I fund all year vs. Gclappers mix. If you're not familiar with doing this, look on the very bottom of the section on tspcalc that "seasonal calculator" and you can pick to compare predefined seasonal strategies, or against other formulas. Guarantee that all the mixes that have ever been discussed in tspcenter already have their own seasonal strat #, but I don't have that list available. Matt might, the creator of the calculator.
I'm still wondering about question 1.
Best,
Me
P.S. What about leader boards? Who on the leader boards is also working on the daily strategy?
Re: Daily strategy questions
I am not moving to a daily till 2018 currently sticking with the seasonal as it has paid off so far. There is no true numbers as to how the daily is going to work until someone has actually used it for a full year. So in Jan 2019 for those that stick to the daily 100% they will be getting there first look at a 1 year daily return. I am going to follow 15981, but in all honesty the best ones are all within 1 or 2 days of movements into the same funds.
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Since TSP reinvests all dividends the actual increase when incurred would be reflected in the daily price but there are other factors that impact the daily so you really cannot tell how much of the price would be due to earnings announcements, dividends, seasonality, the news cycle or some knee jerk reaction in the market
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I knew Evilanne would have input, she/he always gives great advice (I don't want to assume gender Lol)evilanne wrote:Since TSP reinvests all dividends the actual increase when incurred would be reflected in the daily price but there are other factors that impact the daily so you really cannot tell how much of the price would be due to earnings announcements, dividends, seasonality, the news cycle or some knee jerk reaction in the market
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Re: Daily strategy questions
This isn’t quite true...this is MJedlins second full year...bad70nova wrote:I am not moving to a daily till 2018 currently sticking with the seasonal as it has paid off so far. There is no true numbers as to how the daily is going to work until someone has actually used it for a full year. So in Jan 2019 for those that stick to the daily 100% they will be getting there first look at a 1 year daily return. I am going to follow 15981, but in all honesty the best ones are all within 1 or 2 days of movements into the same funds.
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Re: Daily strategy questions
The true numbers are the historical returns that are calculated when you run a strategy... I don't get how you say there are no true numbers until a full year. There's been 14 full years and .8 of this year...
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Re: Daily strategy questions
Are most jumping to the C fund on Monday?
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Yes most are to IFT to C before noon today.
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Over 80% of moves today show them going to C.
Re: Daily strategy questions
Yes, but I kept it to myself in 2016.Travis1984 wrote:This isn’t quite true...this is MJedlins second full year...bad70nova wrote:I am not moving to a daily till 2018 currently sticking with the seasonal as it has paid off so far. There is no true numbers as to how the daily is going to work until someone has actually used it for a full year. So in Jan 2019 for those that stick to the daily 100% they will be getting there first look at a 1 year daily return. I am going to follow 15981, but in all honesty the best ones are all within 1 or 2 days of movements into the same funds.
Plus, the strategies you have all come up with this year are much better than the one I used last year.
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Excellent work. Thanks.
Re: Daily strategy questions
bad70nova wrote:I am not moving to a daily till 2018 currently sticking with the seasonal as it has paid off so far. There is no true numbers as to how the daily is going to work until someone has actually used it for a full year. So in Jan 2019 for those that stick to the daily 100% they will be getting there first look at a 1 year daily return. I am going to follow 15981, but in all honesty the best ones are all within 1 or 2 days of movements into the same funds.
The numbers for past years are in the books, and are factual. If you are unconvinced about the "truth" or validity of the Daily system - or any other method - try choosing a strategy on a year by year basis, and see what the next year's results would be, ala Fun with TSPcalcSnareMV17 wrote:The true numbers are the historical returns that are calculated when you run a strategy... I don't get how you say there are no true numbers until a full year. There's been 14 full years and .8 of this year...
Begin with only 4 years of data (e.g. 2004-07 - before the Financial crisis). You will probably observe that most of the strategies which are chosen on the basis of low StdDev or high Sigma did consistently better than any of the specific funds - except in years when the market went up up up, e.g. 2013.
Consider that each date of a Daily IFT schedule is itself a temporal average which contributes to an overall yearly result. Each IFT date may not have been optimal in any of the years of data. This is evident when looking at the monthly statistics, which are much worse than on a yearly basis. Therefore, it may make sense to use the dates as guidelines, rather than an absolute timetable.
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Re: Daily strategy questions
I would agree that it would be good to see daily strategies on this site begin to populate the leaderboard going forward. Are we seeing that yet?
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