Citigroup is a financial services holding company whose businesses provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, trade and securities services and wealth management. Co.'s Global Consumer Banking segment provides banking services to retail customers through retail banking, Citi-branded cards and Citi retail services. Co.'s Institutional Clients Group segment which provides banking products and services including investment banking, treasury and trade solutions, corporate lending, and private bank; and markets and securities services.
When researching a stock like Citigroup, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from C Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for C stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the C 200 day moving average ("C 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the C 50 day moving average ("C 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Citigroup. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the C 200 DMA and the C 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("C MACD"). The C MACD chart, in conjunction with the chart of the moving averages, basically helps in visualizing how the moving averages are showing convergence (moving closer together), or divergence (moving farther apart). |
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