DFEN | Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X ETFAMEX golden cross and death cross projections
On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Sep, with price now sitting between the two. No cross is projected on the daily or the weekly inside the 30 bars we track.
On the daily, DFEN has crossed 17 times, roughly every 6 months, the last one on 9/16/2026. On the weekly it has crossed just once, a golden cross in Nov 2023, with price trading below the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 15% lower.
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DFEN cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018
31 golden and death crosses since 2018, with one on the weekly timeframe. Of the 17 daily crosses tracked, we projected 16 of them from a median of 23 bars out. The most recent was a death cross on the daily, on 9/16/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/16/2026 | Death steep | daily | Not tested |
| 9/14/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 7/23/2026 | Golden moderate | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 6/30/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 5/15/2026 | Death steep | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 4/9/2026 | Death | 4-hour | 5 bar cross test |
| 1/8/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 12/9/2025 | Death | 4-hour | 3 bar cross test |
| 6/4/2025 | Golden steep | daily | Not tested |
| 5/15/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 2/14/2025 | Death | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 12/23/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 12/22/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 11/30/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 11/20/2023 | Golden flat | weekly | 2 bar cross test |
| 9/12/2023 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 9/6/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 7/11/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 5/10/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 4/20/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/11/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 12/15/2022 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 5/20/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 4/11/2022 | Golden | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 10/22/2021 | Death | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 12/11/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/16/2020 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 5/17/2019 | Golden | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 5/13/2019 | Death | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 4/23/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 11/27/2018 | 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.