End of March numbers

So looking at the above spreadsheet it is pretty easy to see that for the month of March if you were in the C-fund, you basically treaded water at a .10% loss. If you were in the S-fund the entire time, you made almost 2%. The International fund is where most of the damage was at with a 2.39% loss. March was a very volatile month and a hard month to watch. It made a lot of people nervous and from those I have talked to, I get the impression that some bailed not to get back in, some were out and took the opportunity to get in, an then the group like me that made a few moves and managed to tread water. The worse thing you could have done was to ride the move to the bottom and bailed because of the news and then it returned. This happens a lot. I bailed, but not completely because of the line in the sand that I talked about in past post. So I was always at least 40% exposed to the stock market in the C an S with a little protective move in the F and G at different times.

Update or Part 2:

So like I said above it was a rough month but consider all the rules that TSP lays on us and I could not get totally back in last Friday like I called it, I treaded water in March. I was down .68% which is ok with me. Tomorrow if I like what I see I will make the move to be a little more aggressive.

So the only fund that made any real money was the S-fund and the rest basically treaded water. The I-fund or International fund was the main reason that the L-funds all lost money.