CRAI Technical Analysis - CRA INTERNATIONAL INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 10 out of 10 to CRAI. This is due to a consistent performance in both the short and longer term time frames. Also compared to the overall market, CRAI is showing a nice and steady performance.

The long and short term trends are both positive. This is looking good!

Looking at the yearly performance, CRAI did better than 79% of all other stocks. On top of that, CRAI also shows a nice and consistent pattern of rising prices.

CRAI is part of the Professional Services industry. There are 81 other stocks in this industry. CRAI outperforms 85% of them.

CRAI is currently making a new 52 week high. This is a strong signal. The S&P500 Index however is also trading near new highs, which makes the performance in line with the market.

In the last month CRAI has a been trading in the 190.50 - 214.66 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

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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Weekly and Daily overview Charts

CRA INTERNATIONAL INC / CRAI Weekly stock chart

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Setup Rating and Analysis

Although CRAI has an excellent technical rating, it does not present a decent entry opportunity 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

166.69

212.90

4 important support areas can be observed.

A support zone ranging from 198.76 to 201.76. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 189.50 to 193.75. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
A support zone ranging from 174.33 to 176.65. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Support @168.37 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	UP	POSITIVE	The long term trend for CRAI is up.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for CRAI is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	79.45	POSITIVE	CRAI has a high relative strength, it outperformed 79.45% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of CRAI is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of CRAI is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of CRAI is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	68.52	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for CRAI is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	1.36	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests CRAI has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	85.8	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests CRAI may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	2.56	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for CRAI suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	43.89	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for CRAI suggests a strong trend.