McDonald's Corp.

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) — Range-bound

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) is trading at $276.26, +7.82 (+2.91%) on the session. Over the last 125 sessions the trend is flat with a -15.2% move. Price is -19.0% from its 6-month high and +5.1% from its 6-month low. Annualised volatility (30-day) is ~24%.

Trend Range-bound / consolidating

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) is trading at $276.26. Over the last 125 sessions the trend is **flat** with a -15.2% move.

Price is -19.0% from the 6-month high and +5.1% from the low. Annualised volatility (30-day) is ~24%.

Price is above the 15-day MA ($269.14, +2.6%) and above the 50-day SMA ($273.95).

Bollinger Bands Near the upper band — momentum hot

Bollinger Bands (20, 2): price is at $276.26, upper $277.45, middle $269.24, lower $261.03. Price is near the upper band — momentum hot.

Bandwidth is 6.1% 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 63.6. 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 $-0.20, signal $-1.49, histogram +1.296.

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 0.97) 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 ($276.26) is -5.0% below the anchored VWAP ($290.90). 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 2 resistance / 3 support levels

Current price $276.26. Resistance above: $276.33, $287.10. Support below: $270.08, $267.19, $264.09.

Watch $276.33 as the first upside level to clear, and $270.08 as the first downside level to hold. A clean break of either often determines the next leg.

Signal breakdown

• Trend (6mo) Neutral Slope is near-flat — range-bound price action.
• Price vs 50-day SMA Bullish Price is above the 50-day SMA ($273.95).
• RSI (14) Bullish RSI 64 — holding above 50, momentum intact.
• MACD (12,26,9) Bullish Histogram positive (+1.296) — fast line above signal.
• Bollinger %B Bullish Price in the upper half of the bands (%B 0.93).
• 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 ($290.90).

Generated from 125 daily closes in the scraped 6-month OHLCV series (quote data 2026-08-07T13:16:28.676559720Z). 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.