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October 2014

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Six-Month Seasonality Turns Favorable

by Erin Swenlin

With the end of October, which is sometimes referred to as "Black October", six-month seasonality switches from Bearish to Bullish. You'll find our seasonality table in the DP Reports blog on the DP Alert Daily Report... Read More 

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Announcing the NEW "DP Weekly Update"!

by Erin Swenlin

For those of you who don't know, I publish a DP Daily Update in the DP Reports blog. Everyday I analyze the same charts to give you continuity and the opportunity to truly understand our premier market indicators... Read More 

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Bullish Flags are Waving

by Erin Swenlin

Today I ran my regular scan to find stocks or ETFs that are rising on fresh momentum. (The scan is listed at the bottom of this blog article.) The results were very interesting as nearly half of the charts showed bullish flag formations... Read More 

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DP Chart Gallery - Indicators that are Talking

by Erin Swenlin

I actually review most of the charts in the DP Chart Gallery for my DecisionPoint Daily Update everyday, but there are a few that I don't often survey... Read More 

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Getting a Jump on Apple

by Erin Swenlin

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) gets plenty of press and so I debated even bringing it up. However, they reported earnings after the bell and beat expectations. Despite weak iPad sales, the huge iPhone 6 and Mac sales have investors excited... Read More 

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Longer-Term Indicators Finally Moving Deeper

by Carl Swenlin

We have some longer-term indicators that we like because they are derived from price movement, rather than breadth or volume. They have a finite range (0-100) and reflect the percentage of index component stocks in a particular status... Read More 

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GOLD: Bouncing Off Support

by Carl Swenlin

In our article on September 23 we postulated that gold seemed to be setting up for a triple bottom, but it was too soon to tell for sure. As of this week gold has reached the level of support drawn from the two previous bottoms, and it has bounced off that support... Read More 

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Gold Miners Rally! Is This The Bottom?

by Erin Swenlin

I noticed on today's DP ETF Tracker Report, where ETFs are sorted by percent change, that Gold Miners hit it big today. Gold Miner ETFs and stocks, while tied to gold, will not necessarily trade and travel with gold prices... Read More 

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Ebola Stocks

by Erin Swenlin

Today on Fox Business News channel, the panel of "Making Money" discussed the biotech stocks that are the makers or researchers for ebola virus pharmaceuticals. I thought it would be interesting to analyze the charts since their discussion was primarily based on fundamentals... Read More 

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PMO Analysis Identifies Short-Term Extremely Oversold Conditions

by Erin Swenlin

The Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) is a measure of internal strength and momentum. You can read more about the PMO in ChartSchool. Every stock, index, ETF, mutual fund has a PMO value each day... Read More