HOLX Technical Analysis - HOLOGIC INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall HOLX gets a technical rating of 1 out of 10. HOLX performed below average in the overall market. Although the medium term picture in unclear, the short term picture is clearly negative.

86% of all other stocks performed better in the past year than HOLX.

In the last month HOLX has a been trading in the 63.19 - 68.79 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.

HOLX has an average volume of 1665710 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!

HOLX is part of the Health Care Equipment & Supplies industry. There are 191 other stocks in this industry, HOLX did better than 46% of them.

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

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Setup Rating and Analysis

The technical rating of HOLX 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

62.69

69.67

We found 1 important support area.

Support @63.32 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.

We can see 2 important resistance areas.

A resistance zone ranging from 65.23 to 66.92. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
A resistance zone ranging from 68.25 to 68.98. 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 HOLX is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for HOLX is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	14.67	NEGATIVE	HOLX has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 85.33% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of HOLX is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of HOLX is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of HOLX is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	33.83	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for HOLX is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.43	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests HOLX has a negative trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	2.14	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests HOLX may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.87	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for HOLX suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	24.73	NEUTRAL	The ADX value for HOLX suggests a possible start of a new trend.