DecisionPoint November 29, 2016 at 06:05 PM
Readers of my DecisionPoint Alert blog have been watching the head and shoulders pattern forming on USO and Oil... Read More
DecisionPoint November 27, 2016 at 10:58 AM
On Friday gold entered a bear market when the 50EMA crossed down through the 200EMA. The preceding bull market began with a rally off the December 2015 lows and hit its high in July after a more than +30% advance... Read More
DecisionPoint November 22, 2016 at 05:55 PM
Since the election and the explosive rally that resulted, volume has been slowly trending lower. This isn't a phenomenon specific to one index, it has been occurring in three of the large-cap indexes we track using the DecisionPoint Scoreboards... Read More
DecisionPoint November 20, 2016 at 11:53 AM
When we discuss bear markets, we usually think of the major market indexes, the S&P 500 Index in particular; however, any price index -- market sector or even an individual stock -- can be experiencing a bear market, even in the midst of a broad-based bull market like we are expe... Read More
DecisionPoint November 17, 2016 at 08:01 PM
Today the NDX switched to a Short-Term Trend Model BUY signal. This signal was triggered when the 5-EMA crossed above the 20-EMA. I don't use STTM signals for trading, but they do work as a temperature gauge. This new STTM BUY signal tells us that the NDX may be waking up... Read More
DecisionPoint November 15, 2016 at 07:46 PM
With the post-election rally continuing to march ahead, only a few sectors are lagging; the majority, however, are moving to Intermediate-Term Trend Model (ITTM) BUY Signals. BUY signals are triggered when the 20-EMA crosses above the 50-EMA... Read More
DecisionPoint November 13, 2016 at 11:58 AM
An oversold rally began on Monday, when a Clinton win was assumed to be in the bag... Read More
DecisionPoint November 10, 2016 at 06:05 PM
This week has been volatile for the market and the country. After Dow Futures were down well over 5% and even 8% at one point Tuesday night, the Dow surprised everyone with a solid rally on Wednesday. Today that rally was followed by a breakout to new all-time highs... Read More
DecisionPoint November 08, 2016 at 06:43 PM
Technical analysis is a vast discipline that covers many different analysis processes. Through my continuing studies, I remembered reading about the "Presidential Election Cycle" and its effect on the markets. I thought this was a timely article given today is voting day... Read More
DecisionPoint November 06, 2016 at 11:59 AM
From the August price top to the present, price has been deteriorating, and this week we finally got a bottom beneath the September bottom to officially set a declining trend... Read More
DecisionPoint November 01, 2016 at 07:22 PM
With major support being broken on the SPY (see today's DP Alert blog article for more on the SPY), I decided to run my "dogs" scan... Read More
