CPA Technical Analysis - COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall CPA gets a technical rating of 0 out of 10. CPA scores bad on all fronts: it is a bad performer in the overall market and both the medium and short term pictures are negative.

Both the long and short term trends are negative. It is better to avoid buying stocks with negative trends.

94% of all other stocks performed better in the past year than CPA.

CPA is one of the lesser performing stocks in the Household Products industry. 100% of 8 stocks in the same industry do better.

CPA is currently trading near the lower end of its 52 week range, which is not a good sign. Certainly not because the S&P500 Index is trading near new 52 week highs at the moment.

In the last month CPA has a been trading in the 66.41 - 72.67 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.

Warning: CPA has an average volume of 745 traded shares per day. This is quite low and it might be dangerous to invest in illiquid stocks.

Volume is considerably higher in the last couple of days.

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Technical Analysis

Relative Strength

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Simple Moving Average

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Weekly and Daily overview Charts

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO / CPA Weekly stock chart

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO / CPA Daily stock chart

Setup Rating and Analysis

CPA has a poor technical rating and the quality of the setup is also not perfect 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

66.14

82.75

When analyzing the support we notice one important area.

A support zone ranging from 66.81 to 66.81. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.

3 important resistance areas can be observed.

A resistance zone ranging from 70.42 to 72.03. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
A resistance zone ranging from 74.03 to 75.87. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Resistance @81.93 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.

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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 CPA.DE is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for CPA.DE is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	6.09	NEGATIVE	CPA.DE has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 93.91% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of CPA.DE is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of CPA.DE is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of CPA.DE is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	32.03	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for CPA.DE is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.07	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests CPA.DE has a negative trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	10.51	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests CPA.DE may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.45	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for CPA.DE suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	37.62	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for CPA.DE suggests a strong trend.