ARCAD Technical Analysis - ARCADIS NV

Technical Rating and Analysis

Taking everything into account, ARCAD scores 4 out of 10 in our technical rating. Recently some decent action could be observed, but in the medium term time frame this is still negative. ARCAD was also a bad performer in the overall market in the last year.

92% of all other stocks performed better in the past year than ARCAD.

ARCAD is part of the Professional Services industry. There are 32 other stocks in this industry, of which 64% are performing better than ARCAD.

ARCAD is currently trading in the lower part of its 52 week range, which is not a good signal. Certainly not because the S&P500 Index is trading near new highs.

In the last month ARCAD has a been trading in the 38.44 - 44.66 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

Volume is considerably higher in the last couple of days, which is what you like to see during a strong movement up.

The short term trend is positive, while the long term trend is still negative. So this is evolving in the right direction, but it may need some more time to really turn around the trend.

Prices have been rising strongly lately, it may be a good idea to wait for a consolidation or pullback before considering an entry.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

ARCAD has an average technical rating and it also does not offer a high quality setup at the moment. Price movement has been a little bit too volatile to find a nice entry and exit point. It is probably a good idea to wait for a consolidation first.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

39.02

44.63

We found 2 important support areas.

A support zone ranging from 40.97 to 42.21. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Support @39.41 from a horizontal line in the weekly time frame.

When analyzing the resistance we notice one important area.

A resistance zone ranging from 44.19 to 44.19. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.

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Technical Indicator Signal Analysis

The Technical Rating and Setup analysis above combine different indicators and trends in different timeframes. Individual signals from indicators may give more contradictive signals and should always be interpreted in the more global context.

Indicator	Value	Signal	Comment
ChartMill Long Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The long term trend for ARCAD.AS is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for ARCAD.AS is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	8.85	NEGATIVE	ARCAD.AS has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 91.15% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of ARCAD.AS is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of ARCAD.AS is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of ARCAD.AS is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	68.36	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for ARCAD.AS is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	0.49	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests ARCAD.AS has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	82.1	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests ARCAD.AS may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.96	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for ARCAD.AS suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	20.25	NEUTRAL	The ADX value for ARCAD.AS suggests a possible start of a new trend.