{"id":12709,"date":"2011-03-23T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:09:38","slug":"march-market-madness-mcdonalds-mcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/march-market-madness-mcdonalds-mcd\/","title":{"rendered":"March Market Madness:  McDonald&#8217;s (MCD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned <a title=\"March Market Madness: 30 Stocks in 30 Days\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/march-market-madness-30-stocks-in-30-days\/\">earlier<\/a>, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA. . Next up <strong>McDonalds (MCD).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two All Beef patties, Special Sauce Lettuce&#8230; You know the rest. Most of us reading this will have been at least once to the Golden Arches &#8211; others may call it home.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent outlook from management was not taken well by investors. While the company had been performing very well, shares hit a snag back in November 2010. Debt is high and the PEG is way over 1. These and other <!--more-->fundamental factors are some of the reasons for the low score in this department.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the technical score should be obvious by looking a the chart. By all measures the shares have been in a downtrend and will need to break above $$75.65 in order to show signs of breaking that trend.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the volume pressure is starting to climb. Watch to see any breakouts occur on above average volume in order to confirm the new trend.<\/p>\n[ipaper id=51316324]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned earlier, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA. . Next up McDonalds (MCD). Two All Beef patties, Special Sauce Lettuce&#8230; You know the rest. Most of us reading this will have been at least once to the Golden Arches &#8211; others may call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}