FIXD | First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed IncoNASDAQ golden cross and death cross projections

On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Apr, and price is trading below both. No cross is projected on the daily or the weekly inside the 30 bars we track.

On the daily, FIXD has crossed 13 times, roughly every 8 months, the last one on 4/1/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 3 times, most recently a death cross in Sep 2026, with price trading below the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 1% lower.

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as of 3 Nov 16:00 ET

FIXD cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018

29 golden and death crosses since 2018, with 3 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 13 daily crosses from a median of 22 bars out. The most recent was a death cross on the weekly, on 9/21/2026.

Crossed
9/21/2026Death flatweeklyActive Cross Test
4/1/2026Death moderatedailyNot tested
3/30/2026Golden flatweekly6 bar cross test
3/20/2026Death4-hourNot tested
3/2/2026Golden4-hour4 bar cross test
12/30/2025Death4-hour3 bar cross test
7/31/2025Golden flatdailyNot tested
7/1/2025Golden4-hour—
5/13/2025Death4-hour—
3/10/2025Golden4-hour—
12/20/2024DeathdailyNot tested
11/1/2024Death4-hour—
7/12/2024GoldendailyNot tested
6/27/2024Golden4-hour—
4/30/2024DeathdailyNot tested
4/2/2024Death4-hour—
1/22/2024Goldendaily3 bar cross test
12/11/2023Golden4-hour—
7/24/2023DeathdailyNot tested
5/30/2023Death4-hour—
5/8/2023Goldendaily1 bar cross test
4/5/2023Golden4-hour—
3/17/2023Death4-hour—
5/9/2022Death steepweeklyNot tested
11/17/2021DeathdailyNot tested
8/30/2021Goldendaily3 bar cross test
2/2/2021DeathdailyNot tested
1/24/2019GoldendailyNot tested
1/11/2018DeathdailyNot tested

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.

Cruxta · 50/200 moving-average crosses on US equities. Recorded crosses are observations. Projected crosses are projections, not advice.