NTRA Technical Analysis - NATERA INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 10 out of 10 to NTRA. Both in the recent history as in the last year, NTRA has proven to be a steady performer, scoring decent points in every aspect analyzed.

Both the short term and long term trends are positive. This is a very positive sign.

Looking at the yearly performance, NTRA did better than 80% of all other stocks. We also observe that the gains produced by NTRA over the past year are nicely spread over this period.

NTRA is one of the better performing stocks in the Biotechnology industry, it outperforms 72% of 540 stocks in the same industry.

NTRA is currently trading near its 52 week high, which is a good sign. The S&P500 Index however is also trading near new highs, which makes the performance in line with the market.

In the last month NTRA has a been trading in the 161.86 - 181.85 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

NTRA has an average volume of 1295720 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

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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Setup Rating and Analysis

NTRA has an excellent technical rating, but the quality of the setup is only medium 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

131.30

182.92

We found 4 important support areas.

A support zone ranging from 166.55 to 170.19. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Support @141.91 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
Support @137.54 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
A support zone ranging from 132.63 to 133.87. 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	UP	POSITIVE	The long term trend for NTRA is up.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for NTRA is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	80.68	POSITIVE	NTRA has a high relative strength, it outperformed 80.68% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of NTRA is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of NTRA is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of NTRA is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	67.05	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for NTRA is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	0.57	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests NTRA has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	92.38	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests NTRA may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	2.74	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for NTRA suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	41.92	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for NTRA suggests a strong trend.