FDL | First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index FundAMEX golden cross and death cross projections
On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Jul 2025, and price is trading above both. No cross is projected on the daily or the weekly inside the 30 bars we track.
On the daily, FDL has crossed 14 times, roughly every 7 months, the last one on 7/9/2025. On the weekly it has crossed 2 times, most recently a golden cross in May 2021, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 7% lower.
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FDL cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017
29 golden and death crosses since 2017, with 2 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 14 daily crosses from a median of 24 bars out. The most recent was a death cross on the 4-hour, on 10/8/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/8/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 7/28/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 6/26/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 12/3/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 10/31/2025 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 7/9/2025 | Golden steep | daily | Not tested |
| 6/20/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 5/15/2025 | Death moderate | daily | 6 bar cross test |
| 4/15/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 2/20/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 1/3/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 1/8/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 12/14/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 10/2/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 8/2/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/14/2023 | Death | daily | 8 bar cross test |
| 3/14/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 12/27/2022 | Golden | daily | 5 bar cross test |
| 8/10/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 5/24/2021 | Golden steep | weekly | Not tested |
| 10/13/2020 | Golden | daily | 6 bar cross test |
| 7/6/2020 | Death | weekly | Not tested |
| 3/11/2020 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 3/26/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 12/28/2018 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 8/29/2018 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 4/4/2018 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 9/28/2017 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/28/2017 | Death | daily | 7 bar cross test |
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.