BacktoastGolden cross and death cross
A golden cross is the 50-day average crossing above the 200-day average, and a death cross is those two averages crossing the other way. StockCharts describes that 50-and-200 pair as the usual version, on stocks and on bitcoin. Backtoast hasn't run either one.
| Strategy | Trades | A year | Test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden cross and death cross | – | – | Not run |
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Golden cross
The shorter average has been below the longer one, which is what a falling market usually looks like, and the cross is the day the 50-day closes above the 200-day, which is where people buy. Both averages are simple averages of the daily close, and write-ups use other lengths too, and this page means 50 and 200. You can write that pair in drafting a strategy.
Death cross
A death cross is the 50-day average crossing below the 200-day, and people sell on that cross, or they go short.
Other averages
The 10 month moving average strategy is Faber's monthly rule, and the bitcoin moving average page ran the 20-day average.
Not run. The 50-day and 200-day wording is StockCharts' ChartSchool, read 31 October 2026.
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