KOBIPC Analysis
Open 307.43
DayLow: 307.42
DayHigh: 311.85
52 Week Low: 209.1
52 Week High: 326.27
50 Days Average: 306.8216
American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as integrated payments company in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, and Internationally. It operates through four segments: U.S. Consumer Services, Commercial Services, International Card Services, and Global Merchant and Network Services. The company's products and services include credit card, charge card, banking, and other payment and financing products; network services; expense management products and services; and travel and lifestyle services. It also provides merchant acquisition and processing, servicing and settlement, point-of-sale marketing, and information products and services for merchants; and fraud prevention services, as well as the design and operation of customer loyalty programs. In addition, the company leases and operates lounges at airports. It sells its products and services to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies, and large corporations through mobile and online applications, affiliate marketing, customer referral programs, third-party service providers and business partners, direct mail, telephone, in-house sales teams, telephone, and direct response advertising. American Express Company was founded in 1850 and is based in New York, New York.
The Ichimoku Cloud
The Ichimoku Cloud is a technical analysis tool used to gauge market trends, momentum, and potential support/resistance levels in trading. It consists of five lines that create a "cloud" on a price chart, helping traders make decisions. Here's a simple breakdown:- Tenkan-Sen (Conversion Line): A short-term trend indicator, calculated as the average of the highest high and lowest low over the past 9 periods.
- Kijun-Sen (Base Line): A medium-term trend indicator, calculated as the average of the highest high and lowest low over the past 26 periods.
- Senkou Span A (Leading Span A): Forms one edge of the cloud, calculated as the average of the Tenkan-Sen and Kijun-Sen, plotted 26 periods ahead.
- Senkou Span B (Leading Span B): Forms the other edge of the cloud, calculated as the average of the highest high and lowest low over the past 52 periods, plotted 26 periods ahead.
- Chikou Span (Lagging Span): The current closing price plotted 26 periods behind, showing potential support/resistance.
- Price Above the Cloud: Indicates an uptrend.
- Price Below the Cloud: Indicates a downtrend.
- Price Inside the Cloud: Suggests consolidation or indecision.
- Cloud Thickness: A thicker cloud indicates stronger support/resistance, while a thinner cloud suggests weaker levels.
American Express Company Ichimoku Cloud
The Moving Average
The Moving Average (MA) is a widely used technical analysis tool that helps traders and investors identify trends and potential support/resistance levels by smoothing out price data over a specific period. It is a lagging indicator, meaning it is based on past prices, and is used to analyze the direction and strength of a trend:- Simple Moving Average (SMA): The SMA is calculated by taking the average of a set of prices over a specific number of periods. Example: A 10-day SMA adds up the closing prices of the last 10 days and divides by 10.
- Exponential Moving Average (EMA): The EMA gives more weight to recent prices, making it more responsive to new information compared to the SMA. Example: A 10-day EMA places more emphasis on the most recent prices than the SMA.
- Weighted Moving Average (WMA): The WMA assigns a heavier weighting to more recent data points, similar to the EMA, but the weighting decreases linearly.
- Price Above the MA: Indicates an uptrend.
- Price Below the MA: Indicates a downtrend.
- Price oscillates around the MA: Suggests consolidation or indecision.
- Moving averages can act as dynamic support (in an uptrend) or resistance (in a downtrend).