COST | Costco WholesaleNASDAQConsumer Staples golden cross and death cross projections
COST is projected to golden cross on the daily within 20 bars. On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Aug, but price is now trading above both, and the two averages have been closing on each other.
On the daily, COST has crossed 13 times, roughly every 9 months, the last one on 8/3/2026. It has never crossed on the weekly in the history we hold.
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COST cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017
22 golden and death crosses since 2017, and none at all on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 13 daily crosses from a median of 26 bars out. The most recent was a golden cross on the 4-hour, on 10/23/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/23/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 8/3/2026 | Death moderate | daily | 8 bar cross test |
| 6/22/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 3/5/2026 | Golden steep | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 1/29/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 8/19/2025 | Death moderate | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 7/17/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 5/7/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/28/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 5/31/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 4/17/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/15/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 2/7/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 10/11/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 9/6/2022 | Golden | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 6/16/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 5/18/2021 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/18/2021 | Death | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 4/2/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 1/25/2019 | Death | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 12/4/2017 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/4/2017 | Death | daily | Not tested |
No crosses on record for that combination.
Click any cross on the chart above for its lead time. Crosses from 2 September 2026 onward were watched live; earlier ones are replayed from the archive with no look-ahead, which is the same method behind the published track record.
Angle: how steeply the 50 was moving, against the stock's own volatility, on the bar it crossed. Steep crosses are the ones that hold; flat ones are the ones that come straight back. The word is the cross's, not the projection's: it is read on the cross bar.