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Trend Edge Setup Score
Trend Edge rates HTGC Bearish with a Setup Score of 30, net conviction 20, actionability 44. How the Setup Score works →
Total Setup Score
30
Directional Bias
Bearish
Net Conviction
20
Actionability
44 (in range)
Key signals behind this score
40wk Downtrend — trend only (sma 16.40 vs px 17.50)
Fresh Breakdown — 80wk turn 41w+40wk turn 28w
80wk Downtrend — trend only (sma 17.44 vs px 17.50)
Funds Distributing — momZ +1.53 · 3.97→3.79
Short Attack — velZ +0.91 · age 40w×0.85 · 6.74%
About Hercules Capital, Inc.
Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing private equity, venture debt, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from mid venture to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stag… Read full Trend Edge analysis →
Sector: Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
Exchange: NYSE
IPO Date: June 9, 2005
Headquarters: 1 North B Street, San Mateo, CA, United States, 94401
Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.
Timeframe
SMA
Value
Trend Context
Weekly
10-Week SMA
$16.45
Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly
40-Week SMA
$16.40
Medium-term trend
Weekly
80-Week SMA
$17.44
Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly
200-Week SMA
$17.19
Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly
10-Month SMA
$16.56
Near-term monthly trend
Monthly
20-Month SMA
$17.79
Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly
40-Month SMA
$17.86
Secular monthly trend
Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance
Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume
creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative
volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.
Trend Edge's AI Consult feature delivers a comprehensive, multi-layer trade plan for Hercules Capital, Inc.
(HTGC) powered by Claude Opus — Anthropic's most capable AI model.
The analysis covers five layers:
technical analysis (near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular trend, momentum,
volume shelf support and resistance, breakout and breakdown signals),
qualitative analysis (business model, competitive moat, sector dynamics),
insider sentiment (buy and sell signals from executive and director transactions),
share stats analysis (institutional accumulation, fund positioning, short float squeeze potential), and
fundamental analysis (valuation, revenue growth, profit margin, earnings quality).
AI Consult synthesizes all five layers into a single bullish or bearish thesis with explicit entry, exit,
stop loss, and take profit levels — giving you a complete, AI-powered trade plan with defined risk/reward.
Whether you are building a long position, initiating a short, or looking for a reversal setup,
AI Consult identifies the highest-probability signal from the current trend.