MCD Technical Analysis - MCDONALD'S CORP

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 0 out of 10 to MCD. MCD's overall performance in the market is below average. Also recent evolutions are not that positive. Both the medium and short term picture give negative signs.

When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, MCD is a bad performer in the overall market: 71% of all stocks are doing better.

MCD has an average volume of 3220820 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!

MCD is an average performer in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry, it outperforms 58% of 135 stocks in the same industry.

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

In the last month MCD has a been trading in a tight range between 292.04 and 308.51.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

MCD 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

248.57

324.51

We found 3 important support areas.

Support @285.54 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 279.74 to 280.95. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Support @251.08 from a horizontal line in the weekly time frame.

We can see 2 important resistance areas.

A resistance zone ranging from 294.48 to 310.21. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
A resistance zone ranging from 316.56 to 321.30. 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 MCD is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for MCD is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	29.04	NEGATIVE	MCD has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 70.96% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of MCD is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of MCD is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	MIXED	The current price of MCD is below the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	32.17	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for MCD is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.91	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests MCD has a negative trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	12.61	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests MCD may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.41	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for MCD suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	30.32	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for MCD suggests a strong trend.