VRCA Technical Analysis - VERRICA PHARMACEUTICALS INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Taking everything into account, VRCA scores 1 out of 10 in our technical rating. VRCA scores bad on all fronts: it is a bad performer in the overall market and both the medium and short term pictures are negative.

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

99% of all other stocks performed better in the past year than VRCA.

VRCA is part of the Pharmaceuticals industry. There are 195 other stocks in this industry, of which 89% are performing better than VRCA.

VRCA is currently trading near the lower end of its 52 week range, which is not a good sign. Certainly not because the S&P500 Index is trading near new 52 week highs at the moment.

In the last month VRCA has a been trading in the 3.94 - 4.90 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.

Considerably lower volume is observed in the last couple of days.

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Technical Analysis

Relative Strength

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Simple Moving Average

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Weekly and Daily overview Charts

VERRICA PHARMACEUTICALS INC / VRCA Weekly stock chart

VERRICA PHARMACEUTICALS INC / VRCA Daily stock chart

Setup Rating and Analysis

VRCA has a bad technical rating, but it does show a decent setup pattern. Prices have been consolidating lately. There is very little resistance above the current price. There is a support zone below the current price at 4.13, a Stop Loss order could be placed below this zone.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

3.99

4.75

We found 1 important support area.

A support zone ranging from 4.03 to 4.13. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.

When analyzing the resistance we notice 2 important areas.

Resistance @4.24 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
A resistance zone ranging from 4.68 to 4.70. 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	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The long term trend for VRCA is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for VRCA is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	1.78	NEGATIVE	VRCA has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 98.22% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	MIXED	The current price of VRCA is below the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of VRCA is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of VRCA is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	40.41	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for VRCA is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	0.02	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests VRCA has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	22.37	NEUTRAL	The Stochastics value for VRCA is a neutral value.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	7.92	HIGH VOLATILITY	The high ATR as a percentage value for VRCA suggests high volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	11.19	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for VRCA suggests a weak or negative trend.