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“The 7 best sector trading strategies revealed”

Learn real strategies to accelerate your thrift savings plan returns and consistently outperform the sp500.  These simple strategies can be used to time your allocation of invested assets between the 5 TSP funds to preserve your capital during market downturns, and allocate it to the best performing funds during times of strong market performance.

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Discover how regular people are using these 7 easy sector portfolio trading strategies to accelerate their retirement plan and at the same time earn more consistent and stable returns.

 

 

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Free Sector Report for Self-Directed Investors

The "Sector Timing Report" gives you the power to outperform the markets with index rotation strategies.

 

The Thrift Savings Plan is a defined contribution plan set up for eligible Federal and Civil Service employees that offers tax deferral benefit of allowing your contributions and savings to grow and compound tax free.  It offers 5 great low cost index funds to select as investments.

The TSP allows you to adjust your ongoing contributions & to switch investments in between the funds when ever you wish.

By following the Sector Timing Report, you can benefit from the power of capital preservation during downturns, and market timing for broad market upturns.   Know when to be in the market, and what TSP funds to overweight. 

"Approximately 92 percent of variability of a funds investment return is due to allocation of assets."

"Sectors offer higher potential returns and lower correlations compared to standard equity breakouts based on market capitalization or investment styles"

A 2002 study of 91 large pension funds over a 10 year period by Ibbotson  Associates Inc.

 

Review of Thrift Savings funds

 

The G Fund consists of investments in short-term, U.S. Treasury marketable securities with 4 or more years to maturity.


The F Fund holds shares in a well-diversified portfolio of high-quality fixed-income securities with a broad range of issuers, industries, and maturities.


The C Fund is the TSP's large-company domestic stock fund that tracks the Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) stock index.


The S Fund (Small Capitalization Stock Index Investment Fund) is the TSP's medium and small company stock fund which track the returns of the Wilshire 4500 stock index.

 

The I Fund is the TSP's international stock index fund. The objective of the I Fund is to track the returns of the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) stock index.

 

A simple example to illustrate this concept

Suppose you were able to identify which of the 5 funds would perform the best each year, and you allocated 100% of your TSP holdings to that fund.  Lets also compare this result to equally dividing your portfolio amongst the 5 funds:

 

Simple example illustrating the timing effect

Year Fund Fund Return Timing Portfolio Value Average Weighted Portfolio
1994 I 7.50% $107,500.00 $107,600.00
1995 C 37.41% $147,715.75 $115,777.60
1996 C 22.85% $181,468.80 $124,576.70
1997 C 33.17% $241,662.00 $134,044.53
1998 C 28.44% $310,390.67 $144,231.91
1999 S 35.49% $420,548.32 $155,193.54
2000 F 11.67% $469,626.31 $166,988.24
2001 F 8.61% $510,061.14 $179,679.35
2002 F 10.27% $562,444.41 $193,334.98
2003 S 42.92% $803,845.56 $208,028.44

 

TSP historical rates of return by fund

Which portfolio would you prefer?

 

Obviously timing results cannot predict with this level of accuracy, but this example illustrates the power of this concept.

 

Undertaking this strategy is rewarding but does require weekly monitoring of your positions.  Most people can accomplish this in a few minutes a week with the Sector Timing Report

 

 

Sector rotation trading strategies can magnify your long-term thrift savings plan portfolio results.   Are you benefiting from this strategy right now?

 

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