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Q: I’ve just read your latest column, entitled “Odds Favor Gains in Market.” I have about $350,000 in my Thrift Savings Plan. Just before the major slide occurred in August 2008, I transferred all funds to the G Fund. I then shifted about 25 percent to the L2020 funds. I continued all new contributions in C, S and I Funds. I was lucky to the extent that I only lost about $20,000 due to the downturn. My problem was when to put the  funds, which now represent 67 percent of my funds, back into the other less conservative funds. Obviously,…