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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Market Rally Broadens - New All-Time Highs?

by Erin Swenlin

Today Carl looks at the small-caps and mid-caps that have now begun to outperform the market. Clearly the rally is broadening, the question now is can we continue to make new all-time highs...Read More 

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Bonds Get Death Cross SELL Signal

by Carl Swenlin

Today, the 20-Year Bond ETF (TLT) 50-day EMA crossed down through the 200-day EMA (Death Cross), generating an LT Trend Model SELL Signal. This was the result of a downtrend lasting over two months...Read More 

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Stocks: "...a PERMANENTLY high plateau"?

by Erin Swenlin

Today we explore the bullish sentiment that has taken SPX valuations to the moon. There are many out there that believe we have hit a plateau on prices that will continue permanently...Read More 

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Biotechs Fall Apart with Dark Cross Neutral Signal

by Erin Swenlin

(This is an excerpt from the subscriber-only DP Weekly Wrap for Friday) On Friday, the Biotechnology ETF (IBB) 20-day EMA crossed down through the 50-day EMA (Dark Cross) and above the 200-day EMA, generating an IT Trend Model NEUTRAL Signal...Read More 

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Key Support Levels for Gold

by Erin Swenlin

In today's DP Alert short video we discuss the key support levels for Gold as it has likely begun a longer-term correction. We also take a look at Gold Miners under the hood! Charts and commentary are taken from our subscriber-only DP Alert publication...Read More 

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Is the Trump Rally Like the Reagan Rally?

by Erin Swenlin

Today Carl compares this week's Trump Rally with the rally we saw after Reagan was elected in 1980. There are similarities and differences. The Trump rally has lifted certain sectors of the market as well as Cryptocurrencies. While the Reagan rally had different catalysts...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Six-Month Period of Favorable Seasonality Begins Now!

by Erin Swenlin

It's here! The SPY starts a period of favorable seasonality for the next six months. Carl takes us through his charts and explains favorable versus unfavorable periods of seasonality...Read More 

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Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) Internals Still a Problem

by Erin Swenlin

We noticed on Thursday evening how poor the internals were for the SPY, based on Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) internals. These internals are the percent of stocks with rising PMOs and the percent of stocks with PMO Crossover BUY Signals...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Magnificent Seven Earnings Preview

by Erin Swenlin

As part of today's coverage of the Magnificent Seven we remind you when the big mega-caps are reporting and give you are current perspective of each. We also cover all of the Magnificent Seven in the short and intermediate terms with daily and weekly charts...Read More 

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PMO SELL Signals on All Indexes But One

by Erin Swenlin

In today's article and video, we'll discuss the weakness that pervades nearly all index charts. Over the past few days, many of the indexes have lost their PMO BUY Signals...Read More