Workday Inc (WDAY) — Technical state
As of 2026-09-17 — re-computed nightly across the coverage universe. Closelook diary readings, not advice.
Above both trend lines; one of the day's strongest moves.
Ranked #12 on today’s Directional Flow — Rising fastest list (scan of 2026-09-18).
The moving-average stack
- vs 20-day+2.3%
- vs 50-day+13.9%
- vs 200-day+24.3%
- 52-week band20.2% off the high · +80.6% off the low
- Streak1 consecutive up session
- Stochastic%K 31.9 · %D 27.1
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FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-17
Quick answers
What is the current Closelook signal on WDAY?
Up 6.1% at the close — Above both trend lines; one of the day's strongest moves. As of 2026-09-17; the signal board re-computes across the coverage universe nightly. A research diary reading, not advice.
Is WDAY above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages?
As of 2026-09-17, Workday Inc trades +13.9% above its 50-day and +24.3% above its 200-day average, with the 20-day +2.3% away.
How far is WDAY from its 52-week high?
20.2% below the 52-week high and 80.6% above the 52-week low, as of 2026-09-17.
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Dailies
- Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000
On the other side, the iShares software ETF fell 1.8%: Shopify −7.6%, UiPath −7.8%, Atlassian −6.9%, ServiceNow −5.0%, Workday −4.9%, Zscaler −4.6%, Intuit −4.1%, Adobe −3.5%.
- Chips up again, software down again — Friday's split is turning into a trend
Second session of the same trade, and it is widening: the optical and hardware names are up 7% to 12%, Intel 9%, AMD through $500, while Shopify falls 7%, Intuit, Workday and Booking 6%, and ServiceNow, Salesforce and Adobe 3% to 4%.
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Snowflake and Databricks are strongest on governed context; MongoDB on live state; SAP, Salesforce, Workday and Oracle own the authoritative objects.
- Great numbers, falling stocks — the market has stopped rewarding even record earnings
Marvell, Autodesk and IREN fell too; only Elastic was rewarded, and Workday finished a dollar short.
- The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours.
Rubrik, Autodesk and Marvell are all punished despite beating or raising, Elastic is paid +20.9% and Workday shrugs, and Friday stacks the Warsh keynote onto IEF's weekly close at 93.04.
- Daylight pays the five-print evening at scale — Salesforce +20%, Okta +27%, CrowdStrike +18%, Nvidia +7.6% — while ten of eleven sectors trade red and technology alone carries the index.
Five more prints land tonight: Rubrik — a print-record card with zero flat reactions in its history — alongside Workday, which trades +3.25% to 196.94 into its own report, Autodesk, Elastic and IREN.
- The five-print evening resolves bullish — Nvidia's supply-constrained 70% guide flips a muted release into a paid call, and Salesforce and CrowdStrike are paid double digits.
Rubrik — a card with zero flat reactions in its history — reports tonight alongside Workday, Autodesk and Dollar General; PDD's three-session print-record window closes at today's close, and all five of Wednesday's prints score theirs on…
- The Treasury buys duration with bills, hard assets read it first — Bitcoin toward 70,000, gold through 4,400, as the minutes turn hawkish and Korea answers its crash with a buyback
Software kept its bid — IGV +0.83%, Salesforce +5.07% to 206.09, Workday +4.08% to 198.42, Cloud ETF +0.36% — and health care led every sector, XLV +3.51% to 175.68, up 4.34% over five days.
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