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DP Trading Room: Why SPY, Not SPX? Dividends!

Carl Swenlin

Carl Swenlin

Founder, DecisionPoint.com
Erin Swenlin

Erin Swenlin

Co-Founder, DecisionPoint.com

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In this week's edition of The DecisionPoint Trading Room, Carl begins the trading room by explaining negative divergences between the SPY and equal-weight RSP. He also covers why DecisionPoint uses the SPY and not the SPX; the reason is dividends, which he explains in detail later in the show. Erin finds the top three sectors based on the StockCharts Technical Rank (SCTR) and does a deep dive into each, finding where the strength lies within industry groups. They then look at viewers' symbol requests.

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Carl Swenlin
About the author: is a veteran technical analyst who has been actively engaged in market analysis since 1981. A pioneer in the creation of online technical resources, he was president and founder of DecisionPoint.com, one of the premier market timing and technical analysis websites on the web. DecisionPoint specializes in stock market indicators and charting. Since DecisionPoint merged with StockCharts.com in 2013, Carl has served a consulting technical analyst and blog contributor. Learn More

Erin Swenlin
About the author: is a co-founder of the DecisionPoint.com website along with her father, Carl Swenlin. She launched the DecisionPoint daily blog in 2009 alongside Carl and now serves as a consulting technical analyst and blog contributor at StockCharts.com. Erin is an active Member of the CMT Association. She holds a Master's degree in Information Resource Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology as well as a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Southern California. Learn More