Deciding whether or not a plot shows a decreasing trend

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I have a sample of size 218 and I created a graph for a specific function using the plot command in MATLAB software.

I cannot decide whether this plot below shows a decreasing trend or no trend.

Plot of some data

Can anyone provide an insight?

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For this data, I would suggest using a moving average with window size 10 to 50 and see what the result looks like for the different window sizes.

This is a standard method for smoothing oscillating data.