McDonald's Corp.

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) — Uptrend in force

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) is trading at $273.44, -1.04 (-0.38%) on the session. Over the last 125 sessions the trend is up with a -16.5% move. Price is -19.8% from its 6-month high and +4.0% from its 6-month low. Annualised volatility (30-day) is ~20%.

Trend Strong uptrend in force

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) is trading at $273.44. Over the last 125 sessions the trend is **up** with a -16.5% move.

Price is -19.8% from the 6-month high and +4.0% from the low. Annualised volatility (30-day) is ~20%.

Price is on the 15-day MA ($272.12) and below the 50-day SMA ($273.64).

Bollinger Bands Inside the bands — range-bound

Bollinger Bands (20, 2): price is at $273.44, upper $278.69, middle $270.23, lower $261.76. Price is inside the bands — range-bound.

Bandwidth is 6.3% of price — contracted (low volatility, breakout pending). Width contraction often precedes a directional breakout; expansion confirms one underway.

RSI (14) Healthy pullback

RSI(14) is 53.9. Above 50 — bullish momentum intact, no exhaustion.

Generally: above 70 = overheated, above 50 = bullish trend, below 50 = bearish trend, below 30 = oversold.

MACD (12, 26, 9) Bullish — fast line above signal

MACD (12, 26, 9): line $0.39, signal $-0.31, histogram +0.706.

The fast line is above the signal line and the histogram is positive — a bullish configuration. Momentum is expanding.

Volume Analysis Balanced volume

Up-day and down-day volume are roughly even (ratio 0.90) over the recent 19 sessions — no strong conviction either way.

Rule of thumb: price up on high volume = accumulation; price down on high volume = distribution. Low-volume pullbacks after a rally are usually profit-taking, not panic.

Smart Money (A/D) Smart money on hold

The A/D line slope is flat and the line is well off highs — institutions are neither aggressively accumulating nor distributing.

A/D combines price position within the day's range with volume: rising = net buying pressure, falling = net selling pressure. It often leads price at turning points.

Anchored VWAP Below anchored VWAP — period buyers underwater

Price ($273.44) is -5.3% below the anchored VWAP ($288.77). Period buyers are underwater — overhead supply tends to cap rallies.

Anchored VWAP is the volume-weighted average from the start of the scraped series — a proxy for the period's average institutional cost basis.

Key Levels 3 resistance / 3 support levels

Current price $273.44. Resistance above: $274.21, $278.69, $287.10. Support below: $273.29, $270.23, $267.19.

Watch $274.21 as the first upside level to clear, and $273.29 as the first downside level to hold. A clean break of either often determines the next leg.

Signal breakdown

• Trend (6mo) Bullish Linear-regression slope is up (-16.5% over the period).
• Price vs 50-day SMA Bearish Price is below the 50-day SMA ($273.64).
• RSI (14) Bullish RSI 54 — holding above 50, momentum intact.
• MACD (12,26,9) Bullish Histogram positive (+0.706) — fast line above signal.
• Bollinger %B Bullish Price in the upper half of the bands (%B 0.69).
• Volume profile Neutral Volume balanced between up and down days.
• A/D line Neutral A/D line slope is flat.
• AVWAP Bearish Price below anchored VWAP ($288.77).

Generated from 125 daily closes in the scraped 6-month OHLCV series (quote data 2026-08-14T18:46:26.241710448Z). Every level, rating, and probability traces to a computed indicator — no commentary is hand-written or fixed per symbol. Recomputed on each page load from the latest scrape.