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June 2017

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DP Alert: Signals Galore! New PMO SELL Signals on Dow, Dollar and Bonds - IT Trend Model Neutral on Gold

by Erin Swenlin

Today brought a plethora of new DecisionPoint timing signals...all bearish. As far as the DP Scoreboards are concerned, the Dow initiated a PMO SELL signal on the daily chart today. This puts all four indexes on PMO SELL signals... Read More 

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One PMO Scan to Rule Them All!

by Erin Swenlin

I love to use the Advanced Scanning Workbench and find it absolutely invaluable in my investment mining process. Every other Monday, I review the PMO scan that I've chosen for the day and use the results to create my "Monday Set-Ups" symbol list... Read More 

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DP Alert: NDX Posts New ST Trend Model Neutral Signal - TLT Fake Out Breakout

by Erin Swenlin

As annotated on the DecisionPoint Scoreboard Summary, the Nasdaq 100 just triggered a new Short-Term Trend Model (STTM) Neutral signal as the 5-EMA crossed below the 20-EMA on the daily chart. Today's breakdown took out support at the May high and closed just below the 50-EMA... Read More 

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DecisionPoint Weekly Wrap -- Troubling Negative Divergences

by Carl Swenlin

SPY began the week with a breakout on very high volume that subsequently looks like a minor blowoff, as price retreated back into the June trading range... Read More 

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DP Alert: NEW PMO SELL Signals on $OEX and $SPX - TLT Closing the Gap

by Erin Swenlin

The S&P 500 triggered a new PMO SELL signal yesterday at the close. Today, the S&P 100 joined in with its own PMO SELL signal... Read More 

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What's Up With Techs? Price

by Erin Swenlin

Today on MarketWatchers LIVE (airs M/W/F Noon - 1:30p EST) during the regular market updates, I noticed technology was rallying strongly... Read More 

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DP Alert: Dollar (UUP) ST Trend Model BUY Signal - Oil Hits Last Chance Support

by Erin Swenlin

No new signals yet on the DecisionPoint Scoreboards, but with index PMOs in decline, I suspect we will see some more if the bulls can't get a rally to stick. Last Friday, the OEX weekly PMO had a negative crossover SELL signal... Read More 

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DecisionPoint Weekly Wrap -- Market Indicators Look Bad

by Carl Swenlin

About three weeks ago I began looking for the market to consolidate or correct because of price being very overbought based upon its extreme departure from the 200EMA... Read More 

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DP Alert: Gold Triggers PMO SELL Signal

by Erin Swenlin

No new signal changes to report, but I do want to mention that the PMO for the NDX continues lower with no hesitation. For the other three indexes, the PMO BUY signals are intact, but short-term PMOs are now all declining... Read More 

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DP Alert: Dollar Recovering - Gold and Bonds Lose Favor

by Erin Swenlin

Yesterday saw the addition of a PMO SELL signal in the short term (daily chart) for the Nasdaq 100. Interestingly, if you look at the other three, their PMOs have turned up today... Read More 

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Nasdaq 100 New PMO SELL Signal - New ITTM BUY Signal for Financial SPDR (XLF)

by Erin Swenlin

As the market closed, I received a Technical Alert that the NDX had triggered a PMO SELL signal. Additionally, I received notice that a new Intermediate-Term Trend Model (ITTM) BUY signal just occurred today on the Financial SPDR (XLF). I've updated the NDX Scoreboard... Read More 

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DecisionPoint Weekly Wrap -- Record Highs, Then Reversal

by Carl Swenlin

Last week I wrote: ". . . the spike in S&P 500 New Highs makes me think that the market may be on the verge of another consolidation or correction that could last several weeks." I still think that outlook is viable, based upon this week's price action... Read More 

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DP News Bulletin: New Weekly PMO BUY Signal on $OEX

by Erin Swenlin

As the week closes, we did see one new signal change on the DecisionPoint Scoreboards that I wanted to point out. The S&P 100 (OEX) triggered a new PMO BUY signal on the weekly chart... Read More 

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Oil Hammered Today - Time for a Bottom?

by Erin Swenlin

During today's MarketWatchers LIVE Show (12:00 - 1:30p MWF), the big news was the correction on Oil. Oil prices dropped more than 5 percent after the government reported an unexpected increase in crude inventories... Read More 

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DP Alert: Gold Breaks Above Declining Tops Line Formed in 2012

by Erin Swenlin

The markets have been backing off this week but so far it hasn't shifted any short-term timing signals on the DecisionPoint Scoreboards. Gold rallied today and finally hurdled long-term overhead resistance along a declining tops trendline that originally formed in 2012... Read More 

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DecisionPoint Weekly Wrap -- New Highs Climax

by Carl Swenlin

Last week I wrote: ". . . our short- and intermediate-term indicators suggest that we will see a few more weeks of rally before another correction/consolidation... Read More 

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DP Alert: Rally Pop! Internal Strength Prevails - S&P 600 (IJR) New ITTM BUY Signal

by Erin Swenlin

Admittedly I was surprised that the market had just a brilliant day given the very bearish configuration of short-term market indicators. Apparently I should have paid more attention to the short-term buy signals that were produced over the past week or two... Read More