GDX | VanEck Gold Miners ETFAMEX golden cross and death cross projections
GDX is projected to death cross on the daily within 10 bars. On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Oct, but price is now trading below both, and the two averages have been closing on each other.
On the daily, GDX has crossed 19 times, roughly every 6 months, the last one on 10/1/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 2 times, most recently a golden cross in Aug 2024, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 2% lower.
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GDX cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017
32 golden and death crosses since 2017, with 2 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 19 daily crosses from a median of 25 bars out. The most recent was a death cross on the 4-hour, on 10/30/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/30/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Active Cross Test |
| 10/1/2026 | Golden steep | daily | Not tested |
| 8/25/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 6/26/2026 | Death moderate | daily | Not tested |
| 4/9/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 2/19/2025 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 2/13/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 1/14/2025 | Death | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 11/27/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 8/26/2024 | Golden moderate | weekly | Not tested |
| 4/12/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 4/1/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 2/1/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 12/5/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 8/16/2023 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 6/20/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 4/3/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/10/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 1/17/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 10/17/2022 | Death moderate | weekly | 2 bar cross test |
| 6/27/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 3/15/2022 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/5/2021 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 6/10/2021 | Golden | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 1/6/2021 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 5/8/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/25/2020 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 2/5/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/9/2018 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 1/26/2018 | Golden | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 12/11/2017 | Death | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 8/30/2017 | Golden | 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.