SMH Technical Analysis - VANECK SEMICONDUCTOR ETF

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall SMH gets a technical rating of 10 out of 10. This is due to a consistent performance in both the short and longer term time frames. Also compared to the overall market, SMH is showing a nice and steady performance.

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

Looking at the yearly performance, SMH did better than 82% of all other stocks. On top of that, SMH also shows a nice and consistent pattern of rising prices.

SMH 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 SMH has a been trading in the 281.74 - 318.62 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

SMH has an average volume of 7601990 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

SMH is part of the Automobile Components industry. There are 81 other stocks in this industry, SMH did better than 70% of them.

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Weekly and Daily overview Charts

VANECK SEMICONDUCTOR ETF / SMH Weekly stock chart

VANECK SEMICONDUCTOR ETF / SMH Daily stock chart

Setup Rating and Analysis

Although SMH has an excellent technical rating, it does not present a decent entry opportunity at the moment. Prices have been extended to the upside lately. For a nice entry it is better to wait for a consolidation.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

192.46

321.04

3 important support areas can be observed.

A support zone ranging from 299.08 to 299.15. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 285.37 to 294.28. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Support @194.40 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	UP	POSITIVE	The long term trend for SMH is up.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for SMH is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	82.73	POSITIVE	SMH has a high relative strength, it outperformed 82.73% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of SMH is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of SMH is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of SMH is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	70.78	OVERBOUGHT	The high RSI value suggests SMH may be overbought.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	1.84	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests SMH has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	91.65	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests SMH may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.72	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for SMH suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	17.95	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for SMH suggests a weak or negative trend.