Fund Rankings Update, 1/28/2011

Weekly Average Momentum Index (AMI) rankings of HSA, SSPP, RSP, SELECT, ETF, iETF, sETF have been posted at http://sites.google.com/site/ycprankings/

Trading signal occurs in FEMKX Timing model: Sell FEMKX, Buy CASH.

Selling mood prevailed in the wall street. Investors unloaded their positions on any earning miss, so so economy data and unsettling political news from Egypt. The S&P 500 index closed this week at 1275 down 0.55%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 0.41%, and the technology laden Nasdaq composite index lost 0.1% for the week.

The momentum indicator STO[15,1] of FEMKX has dropped below the selling threshold of 75, and a sell signal has been issued. We have held FEMKX for about 180 days with a gain of 10%. According to our FEMKX timing rule, we will buy the fund if its STO climbs above 50 and sell the fund if its STO falls below 75. Detail trading record of the FEMKX timing model can be found in the SELECT_Log page.

Fund Rankings Update, 1/21/2011

Weekly Average Momentum Index (AMI) rankings of HSA, SSPP, RSP, SELECT, ETF, iETF, sETF have been posted at http://sites.google.com/site/ycprankings/

Trading signal occurs in SELECT model portfolio: Sell FSCHX, Buy FSAVX.

Cold weather chill investors' mood this week. Stocks ended up mixed this week due to mixed earning reports. The S&P 500 index closed this week at 1283 down 0.76%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.72%, and the technology laden Nasdaq composite index lost 2.39% for the week.

We have see profit taking this past week and most of the stocks ended down more than the major indexes. Next week, a quarter of the S&P 500 and half of the DOW stocks will report their quarterly earnings. Some companies reported strong earnings this past week but still see their stocks went down, so I expect that the profit taking action will continue next week. This rally has last for a while and need to take a break. Since we are in a multi-year up trend, any pull back will provide good entry point.

As of this morning, the servers at awardspace.com are still not back online. I have moved the pages to other hosting provider. The rankings tables and the trading logs should be up and viewable.

GM has changed the name of its 401k plan to RSP (Retirement Saving Plan), so I have changed the name of the nSSPP ranking table and trading log accordingly to reflect the change as well.

System outage, 1/21/2011

Due to hard disk failure in my web hosting provider, the ranking posts were not available for the past couple of days and will not be available until the service is restore so than I can upload the ranking tables and trading logs for the week. According to their communication, the service should be back online tomorrow night. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Fund Rankings Update, 1/14/2011

Weekly Average Momentum Index (AMI) rankings of HSA, SSPP, nSSPP, SELECT, ETF, iETF, sETF have been posted at http://sites.google.com/site/ycprankings/

Encouraged by the good company earnings, stocks continued their up trend this past week. The S&P 500 index closed this week at 1293 up 1.71%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.96%, and the technology laden Nasdaq composite index gained 1.93% for the week.

Monthly chart of S&P 500 index below shows that the index is well above its trend line and the momentum has been strong since August 2010. It indicates that the multi-year up-trend is well under way.

Fund Rankings Update, 1/7/2011

Weekly Average Momentum Index (AMI) rankings of HSA, SSPP, nSSPP, SELECT, ETF, iETF, sETF have been posted at http://sites.google.com/site/ycprankings/

Stocks came out strong the first week of the new year. Job data on Friday indicated a slow but steady recovery. Technology sectors were boosted by the new products came out of the annual Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The S&P 500 index closed this week at 1271 up 1.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.84%, and while the technology laden Nasdaq composite index gained 1.9% for the week.

Again, we did not see any trend change this past week. Small cap, technology, auto and energy related sectors are still leading the way in US market due to the slow but robust economy growth. Global regions still lagged behind the US markets in performance because of the European debt concern and the government initiated slow down in China.