SAIA Technical Analysis - SAIA INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 3 out of 10 to SAIA. In the past year, SAIA was a below average performing stock in the market. The medium term picture is also negative, but we see some improvement happening in recent action.

The short term trend is neutral, while the long term trend is still negative. We need to see a little more continued positive action to make this really interesting.

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

SAIA 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 SAIA has a been trading in the 280.91 - 330.00 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.

SAIA is part of the Ground Transportation industry. There are 42 other stocks in this industry, SAIA did better than 65% of them.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

Although the technical rating is bad, SAIA does present a nice setup opportunity. Prices have been consolidating lately. There is a support zone below the current price at 285.78, a Stop Loss order could be placed below this zone.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

278.67

544.22

We found 1 important support area.

A support zone ranging from 281.48 to 285.78. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in the daily time frame.

We can see 4 important resistance areas.

A resistance zone ranging from 302.20 to 308.13. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Resistance @319.13 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
A resistance zone ranging from 333.61 to 333.62. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Resistance @538.83 from a trend line in the weekly 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 SAIA is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The short term trend for SAIA is neutral.
ChartMill Relative Strength	14.79	NEGATIVE	SAIA has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 85.21% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	MIXED	The current price of SAIA is below the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	MIXED	The current price of SAIA is below the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of SAIA is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	43.29	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for SAIA is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-2.26	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests SAIA has a negative trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	16.17	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests SAIA may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	4.12	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for SAIA suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	13.87	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for SAIA suggests a weak or negative trend.