Death Cross

A Death Cross is a technical chart patters that occurs when an index's near-term moving average falls below is long-term moving average while both averages are declining

  • It is common to use the 50 and 200 day moving averages
  • Fairly Rare -Has only happened 12 times from 1928 to 2018 in the S&P 500 50/200 averages
  • Typically suggests that the index will continue to decline