FTSL | First Trust Senior Loan Fund ETFNASDAQ golden cross and death cross projections
On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Feb, 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, FTSL has crossed 21 times, roughly every 5 months, the last one on 2/3/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 4 times, most recently a death cross in Apr 2026, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It ended the following week where it started.
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FTSL cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017
36 golden and death crosses since 2017, with 4 on the weekly timeframe. Of the 21 daily crosses tracked, we projected 20 of them from a median of 13 bars out. It has not crossed on any timeframe since 4/27/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/27/2026 | Death flat | weekly | Not tested |
| 2/3/2026 | Death moderate | daily | Not tested |
| 2/2/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 1/7/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 12/17/2025 | Death | 4-hour | 1 bar cross test |
| 12/11/2025 | Golden flat | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 12/11/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 11/24/2025 | Death flat | daily | 5 bar cross test |
| 11/11/2025 | Golden flat | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 10/28/2025 | Death flat | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 10/13/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 8/20/2025 | Golden moderate | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 7/7/2025 | Golden flat | weekly | 5 bar cross test |
| 6/11/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/28/2025 | Death moderate | daily | Not tested |
| 2/25/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 11/8/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 9/27/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 7/31/2024 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 6/14/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 7/10/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 7/7/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 6/29/2023 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 6/8/2023 | Golden | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 5/12/2023 | Death | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 3/27/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 2/7/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/1/2022 | Death steep | weekly | Not tested |
| 9/20/2021 | Death | daily | 5 bar cross test |
| 6/28/2021 | Golden steep | weekly | Not tested |
| 8/21/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/13/2020 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 12/23/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 10/9/2019 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 4/26/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/24/2017 | 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.