QUAD Technical Analysis - QUAD GRAPHICS INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall QUAD gets a technical rating of 1 out of 10. QUAD 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.

The short term trend is negative, as is the long term trend. There should be more interesting stocks out there.

QUAD 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.

In the last month QUAD has a been trading in the 5.55 - 6.80 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.

When comparing the performance of all stocks over the past year, QUAD turns out to be only a medium performer in the overall market: it outperformed 56% of all stocks.

QUAD is part of the Commercial Services & Supplies industry. There are 82 other stocks in this industry, QUAD did better than 67% of them.

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Technical Analysis

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Setup Rating and Analysis

Although the technical rating is bad, QUAD does present a nice setup opportunity. Prices have been consolidating lately and the volatility has been reduced. There is a resistance zone just above the current price starting at 5.97. Right above this resistance zone may be a good entry point.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

4.91

6.77

4 important support areas can be observed.

Support @5.55 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
Support @5.30 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
Support @5.21 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
Support @4.96 from a horizontal line in the weekly time frame.

3 important resistance areas can be observed.

A resistance zone ranging from 5.97 to 6.07. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Resistance @6.42 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
Resistance @6.70 from a trend 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 QUAD is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for QUAD is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	56.55	NEUTRAL	QUAD is not amongst the best or worst performers on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of QUAD is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of QUAD is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of QUAD is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	38.48	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for QUAD is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.04	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests QUAD has a negative trend, although the MACD value is rising.
Stochastics (14,3)	12.94	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests QUAD may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	3.51	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for QUAD suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	25.14	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for QUAD suggests a strong trend.