Cool story about my wife's TSP

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Grantguy
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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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Perfect, thanks!

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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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Guys I'm a little confused, when I look at the link for the numbered strategies like the 7654 and I click on the link provided above and look at 7654, the chart at the top shows to IFT on 8/17 but the calendar chart below says to do the IFT on 8/23. I don't know which is right. Can someone explain why the two charts are different? I'm obviously misunderstanding something.
Thank you!

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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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tyjones wrote:Guys I'm a little confused, when I look at the link for the numbered strategies like the 7654 and I click on the link provided above and look at 7654, the chart at the top shows to IFT on 8/17 but the calendar chart below says to do the IFT on 8/23. I don't know which is right. Can someone explain why the two charts are different? I'm obviously misunderstanding something.
Thank you!


The input table works on trading days, but the trading calendars show you calendar days.

So look at a regular calendar of August 2017. Count all of the weekdays. Skip over holidays and weekends. The 17th trading day falls on the 23rd of August in 2017.

I understand that this is going to continue to be a source of confusion. I may have to eventually cave and take calendar days as input. It will just be trickier to handle.
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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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Thank you! I understand now. One quick question, these numbered strategies have much higher returns so why aren't more folks following one of these vice the one trade a month strategies?

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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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tyjones wrote:Thank you! I understand now. One quick question, these numbered strategies have much higher returns so why aren't more folks following one of these vice the one trade a month strategies?


I think quite a few of us around here are. But my website has only existed since May, so it hasn't exactly had the time to prove itself yet. The reputation is still building.
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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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mjedlin66 wrote:
tyjones wrote:Thank you! I understand now. One quick question, these numbered strategies have much higher returns so why aren't more folks following one of these vice the one trade a month strategies?


I think quite a few of us around here are. But my website has only existed since May, so it hasn't exactly had the time to prove itself yet. The reputation is still building.



Yup... this exactly. Matt just let us in on his secret superpower a couple months ago. I think most folks are a little apprehensive because.. lets be honest, the numbers are almost too good to be true.

But yeah... some of us are willing to believe and give it a shot. Personally I think he's crazy giving it for free. But... he's a generous guy.

I think after a year or two.. more folks will come around for sure. Only time will tell.
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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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Nice story.

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Re: Wanted to share a cool story about my wife's TSP

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Alrighty... here we are. One full year of my wife's TSP growing with no new allocations as she seperated from service in August 2016:

Beginning Balance: $39,729.06

Contributions and Additions : $0.00

Withdrawals and Deductions: $0.00

Interfund Transfers: $0.00

Gain or Loss: $7,601.77

Ending Balance: $47,330.83

This was from Aug. 31, 2016 - Aug. 31, 2017 utilizing only a Monthly Seasonal from Sept 1 - May 31st, and the a Daily Seasonal from Jun 1st - Aug 31st, 2017.

Pretty neat eh? I'll post her Offical TSP 12 Month PIP in a few days when it pops up to include Aug 2017, but if my chypherin' is on it should be somewhere around 19.13%.

Thanks for checking this out guys and gals!
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Re: Cool story about my wife's TSP

Post by Val »

Pretty awesome.

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G $18.15 0.05% 1.05%
F $19.08 -0.06% -0.74%
C $82.21 0.11% 10.55%
S $82.43 0.30% 6.92%
I $42.57 -0.24% 5.95%
L2065 $16.38 0.02% 8.37%
L2060 $16.39 0.02% 8.38%
L2055 $16.39 0.02% 8.38%
L2050 $32.73 0.01% 6.95%
L2045 $14.91 0.02% 6.58%
L2040 $54.38 0.02% 6.22%
L2035 $14.34 0.02% 5.79%
L2030 $47.67 0.02% 5.38%
L2025 $13.15 0.03% 3.43%
Linc $25.61 0.03% 2.82%

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