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System Trading Plan: The Death Cross and Golden Cross of the 50 Day and 200 Day Moving Average Current 50-200 Day Moving Average Signals for November 8, 2011

Nov. 07, 2011 4:38 PM ETSPY, DIA, BKF, PKOL, EEM, XLE, EWY, HHH-OLD, INP, IWM, IYR, IYT, IYF, EWG, EWH, ILF, EWW, IJH, EFA, EEP, EWA, EWJ, EPP, FXI, IVW, IJR, SLV, EZA, EWT, EWU, OIH, PPH, RSX, SMH, XLY, XLP, GLD, XLV, XLI, RWX, XLB, XME, MDY, XHB, XLK, SLX, USO, JNK, BFK, RSP, AIVL, UUP, DBC
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The Golden Cross or Death Cross occurs when the 50 Day Moving Average crosses the 200 Day Moving Average. When the 50 Day Moving Average is crossing from below the 200, it is called “Golden Cross”. When the 50 Day Moving average crosses from above to below the 200 Day Moving Average it is called the “Death Cross”. This system is a very long term trading system and is often very late on entry and exit. It does have a fairly good track record with many Indexes and other assets. It makes very few trades as compared to shorter term moving averages like the 50 Day Moving Average system. It can produce disastrous results if used for every stock index, ETF, or stock.
Other widely followed moving averages are the 50 day moving average and the 100 day moving average. Some money managers will use these moving averages with a shorter moving average and use the cross of the shorter moving average above or below the longer moving average to generate trading signals. The Wall Street Journal displays a 65 Day Moving Average in their charts. The goal of two moving averages and even 3 moving averages is to eliminate whipsaws that often occur with moving averages as a technical analysis indicator.
Why should you care about the signals produced with the 50-200 day moving average? There are so many people using the 50-200 day moving average, that we will often see extreme volatility in indexes when they cross both above and below the 50-200 day moving average.
The table below shows the current 50-200 day simple moving average condition on the 50 most actively traded ETF’s.
Security Name Golden Cross Ticker
Wisdom Tree Total Dividend Stay Short DTD
US Oil Stay Short USO
Steel Market Vector Stay Short SLX
SPDR Technology Stay Short XLK
SPDR S&P Homebuilders Stay Short XHB
SPDR Mid Cap Stay Short MDY
SPDR Metal & Mining Stay Short XME
SPDR Materials Stay Short XLB
SPDR International Real Estate Stay Short RWX
SPDR Industrial Sector Stay Short XLI
SPDR Healthcare Stay Short XLV
SPDR Gold Shares Stay Long GLD
SPDR Consumer Staples Stay Short XLP
SPDR Consumer Descretionary Stay Short XLY
Semiconductor Holders Stay Short SMH
S&P 500 Stay Short SPY
RYDEX S&P 500 Equal Weight Stay Short RSP
Russia Stay Short RSX
PowerShares US Dollar Index Stay Long UUP
Pharmaceutical Holders Stay Short PPH
Oil Service Holders Stay Short OIH
NDX 100 Stay Short QQQ.O
IShares United Kingdom Stay Short EWU
IShares Taiwan Stay Short EWT
IShares South Korea Stay Short EWY
IShares South Africa Stay Short EZA
IShares Silver Stay Short SLV
Ishares S&P Small Cap 600 Stay Short IJR
IShares S&P 500 Growth Stay Short IVW
IShares Pacific ex Japan Stay Short EPP
IShares MSCI Japan Stay Short EWJ
IShares MSCI EAFE Stay Short EFA
IShares Mid Cap 400 Stay Short IJH
IShares Mexico Stay Short EWW
IShares Latin America Stay Short ILF
IShares Hong Kong Stay Short EWH
IShares Germany Stay Short EWG
IShares Financial Sector Stay Short IYF
Ishares Emerging Markets Stay Short EEM
Ishares DJ Transportation Stay Short IYT
IShares DJ Real Estate Stay Short IYR
IShares Basic Materials Stay Short IYM
IShares Australia Stay Short EWA
IShares 25 Index Stay Short FXI
IShare Russell 2000 Stay Short IWM
IPath India Index Stay Short INP
Internet Holders Stay Long HHH
Energy Select SPDR Stay Short XLE
Diamond Trust DOW Stay Short DIA
DB Commodity Index Stay Short DBC
Coal Power Shares Stay Short PKOL
BRIC IShares Stay Short BKF
Barclays High Yield Bond Stay Short JNK
You should not trade any system trading plan without proper back testing and analysis of the trading characteristics of the index, stock or ETF you are trading.
These trading signals are provided courtesy of the website you are viewing. This information should not be used without research and advice from a financial professional.
Be aware that this condition can and will change any day in the future.
We monitor the 50-200 day moving cross system daily along with a number of other system trading plans.
There is No “Holy Grail” in trading systems. Do not use the 50-200 day SMA or any other system trading system without proper research on the asset.
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