Golden cross

A golden cross occurs when a stock’s 50-day moving average crosses above its 200-day moving average — a widely-watched long-term momentum shift.

A golden cross is the moment a shorter-term moving average (conventionally the 50-day) crosses from below to above a longer-term one (the 200-day). Because it takes a sustained rise for the faster average to overtake the slower one, chartists treat it as a sign that a stock’s medium-term momentum has turned durably positive.

It is a lagging description by construction — the cross only confirms after the move has already happened, so it tells you the trend has changed, not that it is about to. Its mirror image, when the 50-day falls below the 200-day, is a "death cross."

stocks-llm flags a golden cross by tracking the signed number of days since the 50-day and 200-day averages last crossed, recomputed nightly. It is a description of past price behavior, not a prediction or a recommendation to buy.

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