FTSMNASDAQ| First Trust Enhanced Short Maturity ETF golden cross and death cross

On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Mar, 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, FTSM has crossed 25 times, roughly every 4 months, the last one on 3/23/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 3 times, most recently a golden cross in Aug 2024, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It ended the following week where it started.

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FTSM cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018

51 golden and death crosses since 2018, with 3 on the weekly timeframe. Of the 25 daily crosses tracked, we projected 23 of them from a median of 7 bars out. It has not crossed on any timeframe since 3/23/2026.

Crossed
3/23/2026Deathdaily
3/4/2026Death4-hour
2/10/2026Golden4-hour
1/30/2026Death4-hour
1/29/2026Golden4-hour
12/2/2025Death4-hour
7/15/2025Goldendaily
7/11/2025Golden4-hour
7/10/2025Deathdaily
7/7/2025Death4-hour
6/26/2025Goldendaily
6/18/2025Golden4-hour
6/3/2025Death4-hour
5/16/2025Golden4-hour
5/8/2025Deathdaily
5/5/2025Death4-hour
3/12/2025Golden4-hour
3/4/2025Death4-hour
2/25/2025Golden4-hour
11/21/2024Death4-hour
8/23/2024Goldenweekly
7/12/2024Golden4-hour
7/2/2024Death4-hour
6/20/2024Golden4-hour
4/4/2024Death4-hour
12/11/2023Goldendaily
12/8/2023Deathdaily
12/7/2023Goldendaily
12/6/2023Deathdaily
11/29/2023Goldendaily
11/14/2023Golden4-hour
10/2/2023Deathdaily
9/29/2023Death4-hour
9/21/2023Golden4-hour
9/14/2023Goldendaily
9/8/2023Deathdaily
6/20/2023Death4-hour
1/17/2023Goldendaily
10/1/2021Deathweekly
4/9/2021Goldenweekly
3/5/2021Deathdaily
7/16/2020Goldendaily
3/17/2020Deathdaily
3/27/2019Goldendaily
11/13/2018Deathdaily
8/15/2018Goldendaily
7/20/2018Deathdaily
7/18/2018Goldendaily
3/27/2018Deathdaily
3/8/2018Goldendaily
3/5/2018Deathdaily

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.