ESCA Technical Analysis - ESCALADE INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Taking everything into account, ESCA scores 1 out of 10 in our technical rating. ESCA scores bad on all fronts: it is a bad performer in the overall market and both the medium and short term pictures are negative.

The short term trend is neutral, while the long term trend is still negative. We need to see a little more continued positive action to make this really interesting.

When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, ESCA is a bad performer in the overall market: 84% of all stocks are doing better.

ESCA 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.

Warning: ESCA has an average volume of 16330 traded shares per day. This is quite low and it might be dangerous to invest in illiquid stocks.

ESCA is part of the Leisure Products industry. There are 33 other stocks in this industry, ESCA did better than 40% of them.

In the last month ESCA has a been trading in the 12.09 - 13.43 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading in the middle of this range, so some resistance may be found above.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

ESCA has a bad technical rating, but it does show a decent setup pattern. Prices have been consolidating lately.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

11.65

16.65

We found 1 important support area.

A support zone ranging from 11.77 to 11.77. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.

6 important resistance areas can be observed.

A resistance zone ranging from 12.86 to 12.95. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in the weekly time frame.
Resistance @13.18 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
A resistance zone ranging from 13.41 to 13.41. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Resistance @13.72 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
Resistance @14.28 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
Resistance @16.49 from a horizontal line in the daily 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 ESCA is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The short term trend for ESCA is neutral.
ChartMill Relative Strength	16.76	NEGATIVE	ESCA has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 83.24% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	MIXED	The current price of ESCA is below the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of ESCA is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of ESCA is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	49.09	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for ESCA is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	0.02	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests ESCA has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	36.5	NEUTRAL	The Stochastics value for ESCA is a neutral value.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	3.95	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for ESCA suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	14.34	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for ESCA suggests a weak or negative trend.