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Market context
Stage
4 ยท Stage 4B ยท Declining, as of 18 Sep 2026
Sentiment
42 ยท As of 23 Sep 2026
RS
-30.30
Dynamics
-0.62
Fair value gap
-30.6%
Week range
6.16โ6.86
Weekly Chart PackCompleted weekly market data ยท Independent research
NYSE ยท Equity ยท United States
WU
Western Union Co
Financial ServicesCredit Services
The Western Union Company is an American worldwide financial services and communications company, headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
Exchange
NYSE ยท NYSE
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Credit Services
Currency
USD
Market capitalisation
2,183,152,867
Fair value reference
8.91
Next-week expectancy
Undecided ยท 53.57%
Executive chart read
Over the latest 12 completed weeks ending 2026-09-18, WU fell 22.85%, moving from 8.01 to 6.18. The latest weekly close is below the Trend Line and below Fair Value. Trend Signal is inactive on the latest week and was active in 0 of the last 12 weeks. Relative Strength is -30.30 and has softened across the 12-week window. Market Dynamics is -0.62 on the latest week. Next-week expectancy is undecided at 53.57% based on similar historical setup states.
Week Ending
18 Sep 2026
Latest Close
6.18
12-Week Change
-22.85%
Trend Signal
Inactive
Next-Week Expectancy
Undecided 53.57%
Signal Weeks
0 of 12
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Price Sponsorship Indicator
What it is
Price Sponsorship Indicator PSI
PSI compares the weekly price move with the market activity behind it. It shows whether price has broad support or whether that support is weakening.
Current completed-week read ยท 2026-09-18
Support has broken down
Price and PSI are weakening together. An improvement in the bars would be the first sign of recovery.
PSI score
18/100
1 completed week
Recent support
-34
Building
Readings pointing the same way
100%
Activity is weighing on price
What it shows
Price and the support behind it
The navy line is price. Green and red bars show support. The coloured trend lines show positive, negative or possible change.
01Support buildsGreen bars rise above zero.
02Price confirmsPrice rises with positive bars.
03Support holdsPositive bars remain with price.
04WarningBars weaken before or with price.
PricePositive trendNegative trendPossible changeStrong supportPositive supportWeak support
What it shows
Is this move specific to the ticker or shared by the market?
This compares the ticker's PSI reading with how widely stocks on its exchange are moving together. It does not change PSI.
Stocks moving together54/100
Broad move building ยท more together
Ticker and market
Weakness is mainly in this ticker
PSI is weak, but the wider market is not showing the same degree of pressure.
PSI
-65.0
Market togetherness
54/100
Ticker supported, market mixed
Positive PSI without a strong shared market move.
Ticker supported, market moving together
Positive PSI within a strong shared market move.
Ticker weak, market mixed
Weak PSI without matching broad market weakness.
Current contextTicker weak, broad market weak
Weak PSI within a strong shared market decline.
Second check
Does Market Dynamics agree?
PSI shows support for the price move. Market Dynamics provides a separate check on whether conditions beneath price point the same way.
What it shows
Both readings are weak
PSI and Market Dynamics point in the same weak direction.
Current reading
-0.62
Four-week change
-0.10
Sharemaestro ยท WU ยท Weekly price reversals
RMI Reversal Map Indicator
See where price breaks a previous high or low, turns back, and confirms a change in direction.
โ Broke a prior high / lowโ Closed back across the levelโฒ / โผ Reversal confirmedโ โ Confirmation levelโ Average price since the sweep (VWAP)
Observed follow-through
What happened after confirmation?
Direction-adjusted price moves from the next weekly open. Only outcomes completed by the replay date are included. Before costs; no exit rules applied. Overlapping observations are not independent trades or a forecast.
Dated observations
Setup journal
Reading the chart
The chart opens on the latest 152 weeks. Choose 52 or 104 weeks for a closer view. Only confirmed reversals are shown. Clear confirmations is the stricter starting view; All confirmations also includes reversals that did not meet every strength check. Green marks a confirmed turn up; red marks a confirmed turn down. Dashed outlines mark historical setups. A zone marks where the reversal developed; its end does not mean the whole price move ended. Select a journal entry to review a past setup, or use the replay slider to see what was known at an earlier close.
Annotations adds dates and explanations for every visible zone. A separate Follow-up complete marker shows when eight weeks of tracking finished. The price move may continue beyond it. The numbered notes below the chart also let you select a zone to inspect it. Confirmed reversals can fail; failed setups stay in the history. Follow-through figures describe past price moves before costs; they are not a forecast or trading record.
Results use completed weekly prices. Missing or revised source data can affect the saved history.
Adaptive Price Envelope
Price, volatility and confirmation
Adaptive Price Envelope APE
See where price sits inside boundaries that adjust to completed-week direction and volatility, then check whether the wider evidence confirms the move.
Current completed-week read ยท 2026-09-18
Price has closed below the adaptive envelope
Lower-envelope pressure is established. The important distinction is whether price repairs back inside the envelope or continues lower with confirming evidence.
The negative weekly move attracted clearly elevated participation.
Price, structure and participation
Where price advanced, failed, reclaimed or lost important ground
Candles preserve the completed weekly tape. Selected annotations identify meaningful finished events and point directly to the week concerned.
Up weekDown weekTrend referenceCompleted supportCompleted resistanceVolumeTypical volumePublished event
What happened this week?
The latest completed candle
The latest week is separated into price change, candle character, closing position and path quality.
Weekly move-7.62%
Latest close versus the preceding completed close.
Candle characterWeak close
Price declined and finished in the lower part of the completed weekly range.
Where the week closedNear the weekly low
The close finished at 2% of the completed weekly range.
Path qualityDeveloping
The path is readable, but the completed evidence is not yet consistently aligned.
Current evaluation
What the weekly tape says now
The interpretation combines completed price structure, trend relationship, participation and path quality.
What supports it
The latest close finished below the recent completed price structure.
What would improve it
A sustained close above the nearest completed resistance, supported by firmer participation, would improve confirmation.
What could weaken it
A sustained loss of the nearest completed support would materially weaken the current price structure.
What to watch next
Trend relationship is below a falling trend; participation is strong negative participation, and path quality is developing.
Statistical perspective
Where the latest close sits in its own completed history
These observations describe the available record. They are market context, not predictions of the next move.
Position in completed history0% of range
The latest close's location between the lowest and highest completed closes available for this market.
Distance from completed high-64.7%
How far the latest close sits below the highest completed close in the available history.
Recovery from completed low+0.0%
How far the latest close has advanced from the lowest completed close in the available history.
Latest move versus typical3.5ร typical
The absolute latest weekly move compared with completed weekly moves available before it.
Completed event history
What changed, and when
Only selected completed events are shown. Each annotation is descriptive, not a standalone instruction.
Support structure lost
The weekly close moved below the preceding completed price structure.
Latest week
Trend lost
The weekly close moved below the completed trend reference.
8 weeks ago
Trend reclaimed
The weekly close moved back above the completed trend reference.
23 weeks ago
Upside structure cleared
The weekly close moved above the preceding completed price structure.
32 weeks ago
High-participation reversal
Price changed weekly direction with elevated participation.
50 weeks ago
Range
Sharemaestro Range
Where price is trading
The fitted range, accepted trading area and strongest price levels are calculated automatically from completed weekly market data.
Current stateBelow accepted value
52-week position
0.4%
Low to high
Accepted price
7.56
Latest versus accepted: -18.31%
Fitted direction
Falling
-0.36% per week
Range pressure
14/100
Lower pressure
Range condition
Contracting
0.70ร normal range
Range pressureCurrent range pressure ยท 50 is balanced
Weekly closeFitted rangeActivity ribbonEstimated activity at priceAutomatic level
Automatic structure
Strongest price levels
Resistance6.27
From price
1.5%
Evidence
29/100
Touches
1
Resistance7.56
From price
22.4%
Evidence
100/100
Touches
6
Resistance8.90
From price
44.0%
Evidence
95/100
Touches
7
Current reading
What the range shows
Current positionBelow accepted value
Price is at 0.4% of its latest 52-week range.
Fitted directionFalling
The fitted centre line is moving -0.36% per week.
Range pressureLower pressure
The current pressure reading is 14/100; 50 is balanced.
Point & Figure
Price structure ยท volume at price
Point & Figure market structure
Each X marks a rising price box and each O marks a falling price box. Time is removed from the horizontal scale so reversals, breakouts and areas of heavy trading stand out.
MethodAdaptive scale
Smart Money
Completed-week positioning evidence
Smart Money
See whether the support beneath price is strengthening, weakening, confirming the trend or warning of increased risk.
Current Smart Money readSmart Money support is weak
The current completed-week evidence is not providing dependable confirmation for price.
Momentum 0.16 ยท Weakening
Trend qualityWeak alignment
The current trend state has persisted for 19 completed weeks; visible confirmation is weak alignment.
Momentum pathWeak ยท Weakening
The latest completed-week level and direction.
Latest positive signalNo recent positive signal
The chart is carrying context rather than a fresh positive event marker.
Risk and warningsNormal
Earlier warnings are outside the recent completed-week window.
Price, support and published events
Where confirmation strengthened or risk increased
Selected annotations highlight meaningful completed-week events; every existing chart series and marker remains visible.
Close Price
Trend Line
Demand Threshold Line
Reversal Risk Level
Current evaluation
What the Smart Money chart means now
The reading combines the finished chart state, its direction and the timing of published signals.
What supports it
There is limited positive confirmation; the chart should be read cautiously until support improves.
What would improve it
A turn higher in the momentum path, followed by steadier trend confirmation, would strengthen the reading.
What could weaken it
There is no fresh positive event marker, so the current reading depends on continued confirmation rather than a new signal.
Published signal history
What changed, and when
Event markers are observations, not standalone instructions to buy or sell.
Reversal danger
The chart registered its strongest reversal warning.
123 weeks ago
Reversal risk
The chart registered elevated reversal risk.
125 weeks ago
Reversal danger
The chart registered its strongest reversal warning.
131 weeks ago
Reversal risk
The chart registered elevated reversal risk.
133 weeks ago
Market Dynamics
Price and underlying support
Market Dynamics
See whether the support beneath price is strengthening, weakening, confirming the move or beginning to diverge from it.
Zero lineMarket Dynamics Rate of ChangePrice ActionVolume ActionFlip UpFlip Down
Price and support relationship ยท 12 completed weeks
Price weakness is confirmed by Market Dynamics
Price changed -12.3% and Market Dynamics changed -0.10 over the latest 4 completed weeks. Both readings currently point to weaker completed-week conditions.
Latest 4 weeks in focus
Price change from 2026-07-03Market DynamicsLatest 4 completed weeks
Zone-to-zone journey model
At accumulation for 4 completed weeks
The accumulation reading is confirmed. An upward exit starts the next journey toward distribution.
Current journey
No active journey
Activated
Not active
Model data
Through 2026-08-21
What Market Dynamics shows
Yes. Market Dynamics follows the completed-week transition between the two sides of a market cycle. Accumulation is the lower zone where selling pressure may be absorbed and support may be forming; distribution is the upper zone where earlier demand may be tiring and supply can begin to take control. The model measures both accumulation to distribution and the reverse journey, and waits for a deeper close or repeated closes before treating a new zone as confirmed. WU is currently in the accumulation area, but a new transition does not begin until price leaves a confirmed zone. For an investor, the value is in separating an apparent price move from a completed change in market character: target confirmation can strengthen the case that a new phase is taking hold, while a confirmed source return warns that the attempted change did not persist and the risk/reward should be reassessed. The completed journeys below show how 1 transitions in this ticker's stored history reached and confirmed the opposite zone.
Accumulation 6.86Distribution 10.54
A dark-zone close or two consecutive light-zone closes confirms residence. A completed close moving out of confirmed accumulation starts a journey toward distribution; an exit from confirmed distribution starts the reverse journey. Time in each zone is retained before the next transition begins.
What actually happened before?
Successful zone transitions
Target-confirmed opposite-zone transitions from the latest 156 charted weeks.
Most recent successful journeyDistribution to Accumulation ยท Confirmed accumulation
2024-05-24โ2026-09-18 ยท 122 completed weeks ยท price move -40.1%. Across this chart, 1 journey confirmed an opposite zone: 0 reached distribution and 1 reached accumulation.
0% ยท confirmed source exit100% ยท confirmed opposite zone
Distribution to AccumulationConfirmed accumulation
2024-05-24โ2026-09-18 ยท journey 122w ยท source dwell 4w
Source exit50%Target confirmed
Furthest point
100%
Price move
-40.1%
Time to confirm
122w
Reached and confirmed accumulation after 122 completed weeks. Price moved -40.1% from the confirmed source-zone exit.
Earnings and Price Index
Earnings and Price Index
A three-year index of the relationship between earnings power and market price.
Current stateRelative earnings resilience
Earnings power is leading market price; the spread is stable and has persisted through 1 update.
Spread
Stable
Persistence
1 quarter
Confirmation
Mixed support
Repricing pressure
Low โ earnings-led
Market move-39.4%
Three-year change
Earnings move-11.9%
Three-year change
Repricing spread27.5 pts
stable
Current valuation4.2ร
Price relative to earnings power
Earnings power is leading market price; the spread is stable and has persisted through 1 update.
Market price
Earnings power
Repricing spread
Earnings update
Supporting evidence
Attribution, business confirmation and horizon robustness
The components behind the repricing relationship and the independent evidence that supports or challenges it.
What drove the move?
Earnings and relative valuation contributions
Shows how the earnings move and relative valuation combine into the total market move.
What supports the earnings picture?
Business confirmation
3 of 5 available business-quality checks are supportive.
EarningsRevenueCash generation
Cash conversionWhether reported profit is supported by free cash generation.Supportive
Revenue directionWhether top-line progress supports the earnings direction.Caution
Free-cash-flow directionWhether free cash flow is improving with earnings.Mixed
Accrual pressureLower accrual pressure is a cleaner confirmation of earnings.Supportive
Share countA stable or falling share count makes per-share progress more durable.Supportive
Signal robustness
Does the relationship persist across time horizons?
Shows whether the same earnings or price lead remains visible from shorter starting points.
Market acceptance
How price responded to each earnings update
Across completed four-week windows, 1 improving update had a non-positive price response; 1 had a meaningful positive price response.
Professional contextPeer rarity, comparable outcomes and state history
Peer groupCredit Services25 comparable companies
Repricing rarity96peer percentile
Spread position4peer percentile
Quality position29peer percentile
Comparable historical outcomes
Comparable outcomes use the available three-year peer history, are descriptive, include overlapping periods and are not a forecast.
State transitions
Highlights when the dominant relationship between earnings power and market price changed.
Broadly aligned
Earnings ahead
Broadly aligned
Confirmed compounding
Broadly aligned
Earnings ahead
Shared contraction
Relative earnings resilience
Related repricing signals
FCFSPrice-led-21.1 pts
WRLDPrice-led-57.5 pts
AGMPrice-led-15.1 pts
EZPWPrice-led-11.6 pts
Price Cycle
Completed-week market perception
Price Cycle
A deep view of whether price pressure is strong, weak, strengthening, fading or moving through a higher-risk transition.
Current Price Cycle readNegative pressure is historically weak and weakening
Negative pressure is elevated relative to the completed history. Negative pressure is becoming more forceful across the recent completed path.
-30.64% ยท Historically weak ยท Weakening
Market positionHistorically weak
Negative pressure is elevated relative to the completed history.
Pressure directionWeakening
Negative pressure is becoming more forceful across the recent completed path.
Trend qualityUnstable
The recent path has changed direction frequently, reducing confidence in persistence.
Risks and warningsWeakness accelerating
An historically weak position is still losing ground.
Pressure, price and published transitions
Where market perception strengthened, faded or changed state
The percentage reading is primary. Weekly close is retained only as market context; selected annotations identify meaningful completed transitions.
Market PerceptionPositive pressureNegative pressureWeekly CloseBalanceCrossed upCrossed downPublished transition or Price Action signal
Current evaluation
What the Price Cycle says now
The evaluation combines the finished pressure state, its direction, persistence and historical context.
What supports it
There is limited positive pressure; the reading needs improvement before it offers dependable support.
What would improve it
A sustained recovery toward balance, followed by positive pressure, would strengthen the reading.
What could weaken it
An historically weak position is still losing ground.
What to watch next
The latest path is weakening with unstable trend quality. Comparable history is mixed follow-through.
Statistical perspective
How unusual, persistent and historically consequential is this position?
Historical observations describe completed evidence. They do not predict the next price move.
Historical positionLower 4% of history
The latest reading is weaker than 96% of completed observations.
State persistence22 completed weeks
The current historically weak state has persisted without interruption.
Comparable historyMixed follow-through
Across 145 comparable completed observations, later closes were higher 53% of the time; the typical move was +0.8%. This is context, not a forecast.
Published transition history
What changed, and when
Transitions are completed observations, not standalone instructions to buy or sell.
Recovery began
Negative pressure remained, but the completed path began to repair.
3 weeks ago
Deep weakness
Negative pressure entered an historically weak position.
4 weeks ago
Deep weakness
Negative pressure entered an historically weak position.
7 weeks ago
Elevated strength
Positive pressure entered an historically strong position.
9 weeks ago
Recovery began
Negative pressure remained, but the completed path began to repair.
11 weeks ago
Deep weakness
Negative pressure entered an historically weak position.
13 weeks ago
VWAP Control
Completed-week volume-weighted structure
VWAP Control
Shows price against its completed-week volume-weighted references, changes in control and the levels that would confirm or weaken the current reading.
Current controlSellers firmly in control
Price is below the core VWAP, which is falling. 92% of recent weighted activity has been accepted below it.
A completed close above High-activity anchor with pressure holding above 60 would strengthen buyer control.
Decision area6.89
High-activity anchor at 6.89, 11.6% above the latest close.
Weakening level7.71
A completed loss of the core VWAP with pressure below 40 would strengthen seller control.
Current VWAP stack
Volume-weighted price levels
High-activity anchor6.89
+11.56% from close
Swing low6.89
+11.56% from close
Latest earnings VWAP6.89
+11.56% from close
13-week VWAP7.25
+17.24% from close
26-week VWAP7.71
+24.71% from close
52-week VWAP8.09
+30.97% from close
Year VWAP8.10
+31.03% from close
Estimated activity position
Activity above and below price
Below price 0%Above price 100%
3%near price
A notable share of recent weighted activity remains above price and may act as overhead supply.
Estimated from completed weekly typical prices and reported activity; it is not holder-level cost-basis data.
Benchmark, sector and industry
VWAP control comparison
Sector and industry comparisons require at least ten constituents with aligned completed history.
Benchmark ยท SPYWeaker control than reference
Weaker control than reference; control-score gap -70.4 points.
Buyers firmly in control ยท 81/100
Sector ยท Financial ServicesWeaker control than reference
Weaker control than reference; control-score gap -58.3 points.
Buyer control developing ยท 69/100
Industry ยท Credit ServicesWeaker control than reference
Weaker control than reference; control-score gap -23.2 points.
Seller control developing ยท 34/100
Historical VWAP outcomes
Reclaims, losses and similar states
Descriptive outcomes from this ticker's visible historyโnot a forecast.
Weekly reclaim14% favourable
Events
7
Median 4w
-8.14%
Median 13w
-10.85%
Typical best
-1.89%
Typical worst
-18.38%
Completed occasions when price moved back above the core VWAP.
Weekly loss100% favourable
Events
8
Median 4w
-4.60%
Median 13w
-9.98%
Typical best
+4.73%
Typical worst
-16.61%
Completed occasions when price moved below the core VWAP.
Comparable control states39 matched weeks
Positive after 4w
51%
Median 4w
+0.41%
Positive after 13w
44%
Median 13w
-1.26%
Best / worst 13w
+25.3% / -16.3%
Outcomes after completed weeks with a similar control score and the same side of the core VWAP.
VWAP control history
Completed changes
VWAP reclaim rejected
Price tested above the core VWAP but completed the week back below it.
Core VWAP lost
Price completed the week below the core VWAP.
Core VWAP reclaimed
Price completed the week back above the core VWAP.
Core VWAP lost
Price completed the week below the core VWAP.
Core VWAP test held
Price traded through the core VWAP but recovered above it by the completed close.
Core VWAP reclaimed
Price completed the week back above the core VWAP.
Core VWAP lost
Price completed the week below the core VWAP.
Core VWAP reclaimed
Price completed the week back above the core VWAP.
Next-State Map
Next-State Map
Historical one-week transition paths from similar completed-week states.
SMI
Proprietary completed-week evidence
SMI
See whether the underlying conditions beneath price are strengthening, weakening or holding firm.
Current SMI readUnderlying support remains weak, with an early improvement
The SMI path is improving while price remains under pressure. The latest reading is based on completed weekly evidence.
0.19 ยท Weak
Current stateWeak ยท 0.19
Latest completed-week SMI reading
DirectionImproving
How the completed SMI path is changing
PersistenceEstablished
12 completed weeks in the current state
Price relationshipRepairing beneath price
The SMI path is improving while price remains under pressure.
Price and SMI transitions
Where underlying support changed
Annotations identify selected completed SMI state changes.
Weekly CloseTrend LineFair ValueActivity Lines
SMI pathDirection, persistence and turning points
SMI 0.19 ยท Weak
ImprovingHolding steadyWeakening
SMI in context
Comparable SMI states have produced mixed historical outcomes
Across 48 comparable completed observations, 54.2% closed higher after 13 weeks. The median move was +0.6%.
Comparable observations
48
Completed historical readings
Positive outcomes
54.2%
After 13 completed weeks
Median move
+0.6%
Over the following 13 weeks
Versus normal baseline
+12.0 pts
Difference in positive outcome rate
Chart Summary
Key Points
Week Ending
18 Sep 2026
Latest Close
6.18
12-Week Change
-22.85%
Trend Signal
Inactive
Next-Week Expectancy
Undecided 53.57%
Signal Weeks
0 of 12
Vs Trend Line
Below
Vs Fair Value
Below
Relative Strength
-30.30
Market Dynamics
-0.62
Over the latest 12 completed weeks ending 2026-09-18, WU fell 22.85%, moving from 8.01 to 6.18. The latest weekly close is below the Trend Line and below Fair Value. Trend Signal is inactive on the latest week and was active in 0 of the last 12 weeks. Relative Strength is -30.30 and has softened across the 12-week window. Market Dynamics is -0.62 on the latest week. Next-week expectancy is undecided at 53.57% based on similar historical setup states.
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