{"id":501,"date":"2005-07-31T19:39:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/market-timing-and-asset-allocation\/"},"modified":"2005-07-31T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T00:39:57","slug":"market-timing-and-asset-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/market-timing-and-asset-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Timing And Asset Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Most of my money is tied up in my govenment TSP(Thrift Savings Plan). I have a choice to put the money in either government bonds, the S&amp;P 500 fund, small cap fund, Foreign fund or bonds. <\/p>\n<div>Currently I am using the tsppilot.com service to suggest which areas to put this money. I think I could do better. Is there a market timing area selfinvestors that I could use to decide when to move my funds to where they will do the most good depending on the market conditions? If not can you suggest where I might find this information other then tsppilot?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>My Response<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>\nI post articles at critical times (at the blog and the market outlook page) detailing the health of the market.&nbsp; On the market outlook page I also indicate how much I&#8217;m allocating on the long side, short side, how much in cash and how much is leveraged with margin.&nbsp; Whether you use this information to invest in stocks, bonds, real estate or whatever is up to you.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know you don&#8217;t want to hear it, but i&#8217;m going to have to go with the old cliche on this one &#8211; probably best to consult with a financial advisor.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not a registered financial advisor and I&#8217;m sure the SEC wouldn&#8217;t be too happy with me if I began dishing out individual financial advice.&nbsp; Good luck to you.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Most of my money is tied up in my govenment TSP(Thrift Savings Plan). I have a choice to put the money in either government bonds, the S&amp;P 500 fund, small cap fund, Foreign fund or bonds. Currently I am using the tsppilot.com service to suggest which areas to put this money. I think I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/market-timing-and-asset-allocation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Market Timing And Asset Allocation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-bag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}