Plans to Invest in Thrift Savings

1.  If you don't have time or don't enjoy watching the stock market, I would suggest using the L fund. The percents are automatically set and determined by how many years you have until retirement. This is a no hassle way to invest.

2. If you want to take charge of your thrift savings and manage it yourself, there are several resources that can help.

A.  TSP Talk - www.tsptalk.com  -  This site has a daily advice page written by Tom, a federal worker who's hobby is investing.
    1. TSP Timing, Rev. Shark  is a professional money manager, who contributes to this site.
    2. Ebb trading system has a very impressive record of beating the market.
    3. Trader Fred system has also beaten the market.

 

B. Yahoo Finance - This site has a chart function to allow you to plot the C, S, I and F funds on a bar graph.  I use this page all the time to plot a chart with a moving average line to determine trends. The links to each chart can be found at the bottom of www.tsptalk.com

Note: Blue line is Stock Price, Red Dash line is opening price for the day

        1.  Click on the chart to go to Yahoo's Chart page for each fund.
        2.  Click on Technical Analysis
        3.  Click on 3 months
        4.  Click on 5 day Moving Average
        5.  When the blue line is headed down, after crossing the red line - It may be a good time to sell
        6.  When the blue line is headed up, after crossing the red line - It may be a good time to buy

Note: Blue line is Stock Price, Red line is a 5 day average of Stock Price to show the trend