HLF Technical Analysis - HERBALIFE LTD

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall HLF gets a technical rating of 1 out of 10. HLF has been an average performer in the overall market. Also recent evolutions are not that positive: both the medium and short term time frames give negative signs.

In the last month HLF has a been trading in the 8.36 - 10.25 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.

Prices have been falling strongly lately, it is better to avoid new long positions here.

HLF has an average volume of 1752520 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

The long term trend is neutral, but the short term trend is negative. Better to stay away from this!

When comparing the performance of all stocks over the past year, HLF turns out to be only a medium performer in the overall market: it outperformed 48% of all stocks.

HLF is part of the Personal Care Products industry. There are 36 other stocks in this industry, HLF did better than 68% of them.

HLF is currently trading in the middle of its 52 week range. The S&P500 Index however is currently trading near new highs, so HLF is lagging the market.

Considerably lower volume is observed in the last couple of days.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

The technical rating of HLF is bad and it also does not present a 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

8.35

9.75

We found 1 important support area.

A support zone ranging from 8.43 to 8.43. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.

We found 1 important resistance area.

A resistance zone ranging from 9.57 to 9.65. 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	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The long term trend for HLF is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for HLF is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	48.94	NEUTRAL	HLF is not amongst the best or worst performers on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of HLF is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of HLF is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of HLF is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	34.71	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for HLF is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.1	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests HLF has a negative trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	6.88	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests HLF may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	3.69	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for HLF suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	15.81	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for HLF suggests a weak or negative trend.