
Pudgy Penguins closed Friday 18 September 2026 at $0.007945 on Phemex spot, a 9.19% session gain that carried PENGU back over its 200-session mean. Our Pudgy Penguins price prediction puts the base at $0.007369, that same average, and runs from a $0.005753 bear level to a $0.013359 bull level.
The control is the reason the range stays narrow. The 50-session mean crossed above the 200-session mean on 16 September 2026, the fifth such cross in 641 daily bars. Six closes have reclaimed that long average from below. The five with forward history are down a median 16.6% ten sessions later and 26.62% twenty sessions later.
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PENGU at a glance
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Reading
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Close, Friday 18 September 2026
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$0.007945 on the Phemex spot pair
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Session move
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+9.19%, the 54th largest of 640 daily moves
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52-week range, close basis
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$0.005753 on 29 July 2026 to $0.035684 on 19 September 2025
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50/200-session means
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$0.00744944 over $0.00736876, golden cross 16 September 2026
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Turnover
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$1,248,919, or 1.26x the prior 20-session average
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Bear, base and bull
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$0.005753, $0.007369, $0.013359
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On Phemex
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PENGU spot trading only, the PENGU perpetual is delisted
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Where Did the Pudgy Penguins Price Close on Friday 18 September 2026?
PENGU finished Friday 18 September at $0.007945 on the Phemex spot pair, up from $0.007276 the day before. The bar opened at $0.007268 and ran to $0.008005 without trading under $0.007218, so the whole session cleared Thursday's close. Across the seven sessions from 11 September the token added 9.56%, and across the 30 sessions from 19 August it added 22.76%. Push the window out to 365 sessions and the same price is down 79.09%. Our record holds 641 daily bars from 17 December 2024 with no missing days. The first bar covers nine hours and fifty minutes, because the pair opened at 14:10 UTC.
The 52-week window ends on the anchor and opens on 19 September 2025. On a closing basis it runs from $0.005753 on 29 July 2026 to $0.035684 on that opening day. The intraday extremes of that same window land on different dates. A $0.038789 high on 19 September 2025 pairs with a $0.005290 low on 6 February 2026, so we name the basis every time.
That window high sits on the oldest bar in the window and rolls off the day this page publishes.
Measured against the whole 641-bar record, the anchor is 85.57% under the $0.055077 intraday high of listing day and 81.61% under the $0.043208 closing high of 27 July 2025. What the Pudgy Penguin NFTs and the PENGU token arecovers the collection behind the ticker, and this page stays on the tape.
What Does the 16 September PENGU Golden Cross Change?
The 50-session mean closed 18 September at $0.00744944 and the 200-session mean at $0.00736876, a gap of 1.0949%. The PENGU golden cross printed two sessions earlier and it printed by the thinnest margin in the record. On 15 September the short average stood 0.0084% under the long one, and on 16 September it stood 0.2691% over. A cross that narrow is an arithmetic event before it is a signal.
How a golden cross and a death cross work sets out the mechanism, and the arithmetic runs the same way on any series. The whole event here turns on eight thousandths of one percent, so one softer close inside the next fortnight takes the averages back the other way.
PENGU has printed five of these crosses in 641 daily bars. The golden cross of 16 July 2025 gave way to a death cross on 13 November 2025. The golden cross of 3 June 2026 survived thirteen sessions before the death cross of 16 June 2026. The average life of a bullish signal in this token runs to weeks, not quarters.
How Often Has the PENGU Price Held a Reclaim of Its 200-Session Mean?
Method: we took every close that finished at or above the 200-session mean when the previous close finished below it. All closes come from the Phemex spot pair, and we measured the forward return at 10 and 20 sessions, then at 30 and 60.
Six closes qualify and the 18 September close is the sixth, so five carry forward history. Ten sessions on, the median came in 16.6% lower with one of the five higher. Twenty sessions on, the median came in 26.62% lower, again with one of five higher. Only four events have 30 sessions of data and their median is 40.98% lower with none higher, and at 60 sessions the median is 47.73% lower with none higher.
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Reclaim close
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Level
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10 sessions
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20 sessions
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30 sessions
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60 sessions
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18 Oct 2025
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$0.021420
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-3.80%
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-26.62%
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-43.72%
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-55.95%
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26 Oct 2025
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$0.022364
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-31.64%
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-41.36%
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-49.30%
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-60.46%
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5 May 2026
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$0.011035
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-19.91%
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-20.05%
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-38.24%
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-39.52%
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21 May 2026
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$0.009495
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-16.60%
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-32.78%
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-28.36%
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-33.07%
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20 Aug 2026
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$0.007187
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+19.65%
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+6.78%
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still open
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still open
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Five events prove nothing on their own. They still say the thing a Pudgy Penguins price prediction has to respect. In this token's own history a reclaim of the long average has been a fade and never a launch. The single winner of the five came on 20 August 2026, and its 30-session window hasn't closed.
Our earlier PENGU price analysis carries a $0.08 target in its headline, a level more than ten times the 18 September close. The distance between that headline and this tape is exactly why the control runs before the forecast.
The size control asks a different question of the same record. Of the 640 session-to-session moves, 57 gained 9% or more and the 18 September bar is one of them. For the 56 with five sessions of forward history the median return came in 2.46% lower, with 26 of 56 higher. By 20 sessions the median had slipped to 7.77% lower. Restrict the test to 2026 and 17 events qualify, 16 of them with forward history. The medians get worse at 3.77% lower after five sessions and 10.54% lower after twenty.
The cross record itself carries the least weight of the three tests. Only two prior golden crosses have forward data and they split cleanly. The 2025 cross gained 20.40% over five sessions and lost 20.31% over ninety, and the 2026 cross lost 4.23% over five and gained 19.02% over ninety.
What Could Move the Pudgy Penguins Price Before 2027?
The unlock schedule that carries no dates
The project's own MiCA white paper carries a version 1.0 cover date of 21 October 2025. Section G.4 says any rise in circulating supply follows the protocol's predefined issuance and unlock schedule. It prints no dates for it. Section G.5 puts the issuer's retained holding at 8,269,868,179.49 PENGU, worth about $65.7 million at the 18 September close. That issuer is Simple Action Limited, BVI company number 2019801.
Section E.12 of the same filing answers the total number of tokens offered or traded with "Not applicable". So the one document that confirms an unlock schedule exists prints neither the dates nor the supply figure the schedule runs against. Rungs one and two of our source ladder are closed, because pudgypenguins.com and pengu.pudgypenguins.com both answer 403 and docs.pudgypenguins.com has no DNS record at all. Our report on the May 2026 PENGU token release covers the last supply event we wrote up, and it is the shape the next one takes.
The 25 September quarterly expiry
The crypto quarterly options expiry lands on 25 September 2026, seven days after the anchor close. It is a market-wide date with no Pudgy Penguins content in it, and it earns a line here only because the project side offers nothing dated at all.
What the filing says a holder owns
Section G.1 is the paragraph a Pudgy Penguins crypto holder should read before sizing anything. The issuer's own wording says purchasers "do not obtain contractual rights, claims against any legal entity, or equity interests". Section H.8 answers the audit question with a flat "false", and the issuer describes itself as a company formed in 2019 with limited operations and no current employees. The same filing lists five contract addresses for the token, so a supply figure read off a single explorer covers one deployment out of five. Why PENGU rallied in our earlier coverage traces the demand side of that story.
Where Do the Bear and Bull Levels Land in This Pudgy Penguins Price Prediction?
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Scenario
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Level
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Derived from
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What has to happen
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Bear
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$0.005753
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Lowest daily close of the 52-week window, 29 July 2026
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A close back under the long average that keeps going, 27.59% below the anchor
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Base
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$0.007369
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The 200-session mean the 16 September cross reclaimed
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PENGU holds that average, 7.25% under the anchor close
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Bull
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$0.013359
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Highest 2026 close, 13 January 2026
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A 68.14% gain and the first close at that level in 248 sessions
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Stretch reference
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$0.035684
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The 19 September 2025 close at the window's edge
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Named for scale only, 349% above the anchor and outside any dated case
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The bear level has more history behind it than a round number would. Only 26 of the 641 closes in the whole record have ever finished at or under $0.005753. The token has spent about 4% of its life below that line. The reclaim record says a failed reclaim is the normal path back to it, and the median 30-session outcome of 40.98% lower lands near $0.004690 from the anchor.
The base case is my view and the condition is explicit. PENGU holds the $0.007369 long average and the 16 September cross keeps its narrow gap. That gap is small enough that a fortnight of flat closes erases it without one dramatic session. The 200-session mean rose 3.09% over the 30 sessions to the anchor and the 50-session mean rose 20.31%. The short average is doing the work here, and the long one is the level you watch.
The bull case needs 68.14% from the anchor close.
That is a real number for a token this size, and PENGU has produced 57 single sessions of 9% or more, so a run of them would get there. What it has not done is close at or above $0.013359 in 248 sessions, and the last time it managed that was 13 January 2026. A PENGU price prediction 2026 that leads with the bull level asks a lot of you. It wants a token to reverse eight months of lower highs on the strength of a cross that printed by eight thousandths of a percent.
What Can a PENGU Price Prediction for 2027 Claim?
Two things carry into 2027 and both come from the filing. The unlock schedule exists and runs on protocol rules the issuer declines to date, so scheduled supply keeps arriving after 2026 ends. The retained 8.27 billion tokens stay with the issuer on the filing's own numbers. At the anchor close that stack alone is about 13% the size of the circulating supply the second feed implies.
A PENGU price prediction 2027 that respects the record puts the long average first. Hold PENGU flat at $0.007945 every session to the end of 2026 and the 200-session mean finishes the year near $0.007442. That's a rise of barely one percent on the anchor reading, so flat trade alone doesn't lift the long average to the price. The arithmetic gives you a dated test with no forecast attached to it.
Why a Pudgy Penguins Price Prediction for 2030 Gets No Number Here
The PENGU record holds 641 daily bars. The end of 2030 sits more than 1,500 days past the 18 September close, which is over twice the length of everything the token has ever traded. A Pudgy Penguins price prediction 2030 figure would extrapolate a record that hasn't lived through one full cycle, and we won't print one.
What 2030 depends on can still be named. The filing says holders own no claim on any legal entity, so the token's value rests on brand demand and nothing contractual. An issuer that describes itself as having no employees supplies no dated catalysts either. A five-year target built on that base is a target built on sentiment.
What Does PENGU Spot Trading on Phemex Change for the Position?
PENGU spot trading is the only live PENGU market on Phemex. The PENGU perpetual is delisted, so the leverage and the funding payment that usually frame a forecast are off the table. What you can hold is an unleveraged position. How spot and margin trading differ in crypto sets out what that changes for risk.
For a trader the practical effect is favourable against this particular record. The median 30-session outcome of 40.98% lower would wipe out a position carrying even modest leverage. On spot it costs you 40.98% of your stake and nothing more. Turnover on the anchor bar ran $1,248,919, or 1.26x the prior 20-session average and eleventh of the last 60 bars. So the 9.19% session came on expansion and not on a spike. The 60-bar turnover peak is $2,169,701 on 25 August 2026, and the 18 September bar did not come close to it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Pudgy Penguins price prediction for 2026?
The range runs from a $0.005753 bear level to a $0.013359 bull level with the base at the $0.007369 long average. PENGU opened 2026 with a $0.009502 close on 1 January, so the anchor leaves it 16.39% lower on the year with a quarter of 2026 still to run.
Can I trade a PENGU perpetual on Phemex?
No. The PENGU perpetual is delisted and the spot pair is the live market. The delisted contract's own product record shows 50x maximum leverage and a four-hour funding interval of 14,400 seconds. Most Phemex contracts fund on an eight-hour clock.
Where does a second price feed put PENGU on the anchor?
CoinGecko's 00:00 UTC instant on 19 September is the same moment as the 18 September close. It reads $0.0079285901, or 0.207% under the Phemex figure. Its market cap at that instant implies 62,860,396,090 circulating tokens, which rebuilds to about $499.4 million at the anchor close. CoinPaprika is unusable on this pair, because its 18 September snapshot lands 5.1% above the entire 17 September range.
Is there a PENGU look-alike ticker on Phemex?
Yes, and it is one character away. The spot symbol sPENGUSDT belongs to a different token, PENG, and that pair is delisted. The live pair carries the double U.
Bottom Line
A golden cross that printed by eight thousandths of one percent is the weakest signal this record produces. The five earlier reclaims of the same average handed back a median 16.6% inside ten sessions. My base case is the $0.007369 long average holding. The 50-session mean has climbed 20.31% in 30 sessions and needs price to keep pace or it falls back through. A close under $0.007369 that sticks puts $0.005753 in play. A close above $0.013359 would be the first break in a record of five, and I'd read it as the signal that this cycle runs differently.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. Cryptocurrency trading involves substantial risk. Always do your own research before making investment decisions.






