FTSLNASDAQ| First Trust Senior Loan Fund ETF golden cross and death cross

On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Feb, 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, 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 May 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. The most recent was a death cross on the weekly, on 5/1/2026.

Crossed
5/1/2026Deathweekly
2/3/2026Deathdaily
2/2/2026Death4-hour
1/7/2026Golden4-hour
12/17/2025Death4-hour
12/11/2025Goldendaily
12/11/2025Golden4-hour
11/24/2025Deathdaily
11/11/2025Goldendaily
10/28/2025Deathdaily
10/13/2025Death4-hour
8/20/2025Goldendaily
7/11/2025Goldenweekly
6/11/2025Golden4-hour
3/28/2025Deathdaily
2/25/2025Death4-hour
11/8/2024Goldendaily
9/27/2024Golden4-hour
7/31/2024Deathdaily
6/14/2024Death4-hour
7/10/2023Goldendaily
7/7/2023Golden4-hour
6/29/2023Deathdaily
6/8/2023Goldendaily
5/12/2023Deathdaily
3/27/2023Death4-hour
2/7/2023Goldendaily
8/5/2022Deathweekly
9/20/2021Deathdaily
7/2/2021Goldenweekly
8/21/2020Goldendaily
3/13/2020Deathdaily
12/23/2019Goldendaily
10/9/2019Deathdaily
4/26/2019Goldendaily
8/24/2017Deathdaily

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.

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