DecisionPoint

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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

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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

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DP Trading Room: Does This Rally Have Legs?

by Erin Swenlin

In today's free DP Trading Room Carl and Erin discuss whether this market rally can get legs and push the market even higher? Mega-caps are looking very positive with the Magnificent Seven leading the charge. Technology is showing new strength along with Communication Services...Read More 

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SPY Weekly Chart Breaking Down

by Erin Swenlin

We monitor the weekly SPY chart and present it to our subscribers every Friday in our DP Weekly Wrap. We have been watching a bearish rising wedge on the weekly chart. The rising wedge pattern implies that you will get a breakdown from the rising bottoms trendline...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Natural Gas (UNG) Breaks Out!

by Erin Swenlin

It's an interesting market day with the market moving lower despite positive seasonality. Natural Gas (UNG) broke out in a big way up over 15% at the time of writing...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Deceptive Volume Spikes

by Erin Swenlin

In today's free DecisionPoint Trading Room Carl discusses volume spikes and how we have to analyze big volume spikes carefully to determine whether they express a confirmation of a move or whether they are a special case and do not really provide insight...Read More 

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Oversold Conditions Not Always a Friend

by Erin Swenlin

Nearly all of our charts currently show deeply oversold conditions. While this is usually a good thing, in a market downturn, it isn't necessarily your friend. As you can guess, we believe that Wednesday's big decline was the beginning of something more serious...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Is Broadcom (AVGO) the New NVIDA (NVDA)?

by Erin Swenlin

Today Erin looks at the Broadcom (AVGO) chart and compares it to the NVIDIA (NVDA) chart...Read More 

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Bearish Formation Threatens Gold's Advance

by Carl Swenlin

After the November pullback, GLD began to rally again. This week, on Wednesday, price exceeded the nearest November top, which made official the new rising trend from the November low...Read More 

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Market As Good As It Gets

by Erin Swenlin

Today Carl looks at the 26 indexes, sectors and groups in a CandleGlance to see how the indexes stack up. It is clear that all of the indexes are as good as they can get. Carl warns that when things are as good as they can get, the only place left to go is down...Read More 

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Double Top on Industrials (XLI)

by Erin Swenlin

Industrials (XLI) benefited greatly from the "Trump Trade", but fell back to digest the gap up rally. It rallied again, but failed after overcoming overhead resistance at the prior November top...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Swenlin Trading Oscillators Top!

by Erin Swenlin

On Friday our short-term Swenlin Trading Oscillators (STOs) turned down even after a rally...Read More