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death cross

When a slower average price line drops below a very slow one, which some people read as a sign prices may be turning down.

The fuller meaning

A bearish moving-average crossover: the 50-period average crossing below the 200-period average, showing recent prices running below the long-term average. It lags badly and whipsaws in sideways markets, so in this app it is a clue scored like other setups, not a sell signal.

death cross.

Related words

61.8% level · ATR · ATR expansion · bearish divergence · Bollinger Bands · bullish divergence · crossover · %D · divergence · dynamic resistance