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Trend Edge Setup Score
Trend Edge rates GPN Bearish with a Setup Score of 48, net conviction 24, actionability 97. How the Setup Score works →
Total Setup Score
48
Directional Bias
Bearish
Net Conviction
24
Actionability
97 (in range)
Key signals behind this score
80wk Downtrend — trend only (sma 79.57 vs px 93.82)
200wk Downtrend — falling+below (sma 98.72 vs px 93.82)
Funds Distributing — momZ +0.50 · 9.01→8.94
Short Attack — velZ +6.40 · age 79w×0.45 · 9.03%
About Global Payments Inc
Global Payments Inc. provides payment technology and software solutions for card, check, and digital-based payments in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. It offers authorization, settlement and funding, customer support, chargeback resolution, reconciliation and dispute management, terminal rental, sales and deployment, payment security, and consolidated billing and reporting services. Read full Trend Edge analysis →
Sector: Industrials
Industry: Specialty Business Services
Exchange: NYSE
IPO Date: January 16, 2001
Headquarters: 3550 Lenox Road, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30326
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
$83.29
Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly
40-Week SMA
$75.37
Medium-term trend
Weekly
80-Week SMA
$79.56
Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly
200-Week SMA
$98.71
Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly
10-Month SMA
$76.57
Near-term monthly trend
Monthly
20-Month SMA
$82.17
Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly
40-Month SMA
$97.73
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 Global Payments Inc
(GPN) 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.