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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Substantial Deterioration in Number of IT BUY Signals

by Carl Swenlin

DecisionPoint tracks 26 market, sector, and industry group indexes, and we monitor moving average crossovers for those indexes to assess the bullish or bearish condition of those indexes...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Bear Market Rules Apply

by Erin Swenlin

The market is dropping perilously right now and so it is time to review Bear Market Rules. Today Erin and Carl share their rules for trading during a bear market move. We aren't officially in a bear market and we may not get there, but there is likely more downside to absorb...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Spotlight on Mega-Cap Earnings

by Erin Swenlin

This week we have four Magnificent Seven stocks reporting earnings. We also take a look at McDonalds (MCD) and Ford (F) going into earnings. How are the chart technicals setup on the precipice of earnings? Carl and Erin give you there thoughts...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: Behind the Scenes: CrowdStrike (CRWD)

by Erin Swenlin

Friday was a bad day for CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD) as a bug was pushed out that disrupted Windows machines worldwide. The trouble for CRWD is the follow-up lawsuits etc that will likely plague the stock for some time to come...Read More 

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CrowdStrike: Did On-Balance Volume See the "Largest IT Outage In History" Coming?

by Carl Swenlin

Friday's CrowdStrike software disaster has been described as "the largest IT outage in history," and it brought home just how vulnerable the planet is to itty-bitty coding errors...Read More 

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Double Top on Semiconductors (SMH)

by Erin Swenlin

(This is an excerpt from the subscriber-only DecisionPoint Alert) We noticed a double top on the Semiconductor industry group (SMH) that looks very much like the NVIDIA (NVDA) chart...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: PMO Sort on Earnings Darlings

by Erin Swenlin

Earnings are coming into focus and today Erin looks at the big earnings stocks to find out which look the best going into earnings. She took the list of stocks and sorted them by the Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) which put the strongest stocks at the top of the list...Read More 

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NVDA & Mag 7 Breaking Down; Russell 2000 (IWM) and Retail (XRT) Get "Silver Cross" BUY Signals

by Erin Swenlin, Carl Swenlin

This is a complimentary excerpt from the subscriber-only DecisionPoint Alert. NVIDIA (NVDA) broke down today in what looks like an echo of last month's pullback. There is a short-term double top with price resting on the confirmation line...Read More 

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DP Trading Room: These Banks are Bullish Going Into Earnings

by Erin Swenlin

Earnings season is kicking off and Carl and Erin spotlight the banks that will be reporting on Friday. The setups aren't good for all of these banks, but some are set up nicely going into their earnings calls...Read More 

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S&P 500 Earnings Results Are In for 2024 Q1 and Market Is Still Overvalued

by Carl Swenlin

S&P 500 earnings are in for 2024 Q1, and here is our valuation analysis...Read More