HYLS | First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV First Trust Tactical High Yield ETFNASDAQ golden cross and death cross projections
HYLS is projected to death cross on the weekly within 10 bars, with nothing projected on the daily inside the 30 bars we track. On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Feb, and price is trading below both, though the two averages have been drifting apart.
On the daily, HYLS has crossed 15 times, roughly every 7 months, the last one on 2/17/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 3 times, most recently a golden cross in Aug 2025, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 1% higher.
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HYLS cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017
29 golden and death crosses since 2017, with 3 on the weekly timeframe. 2023 alone holds seven of the 15 daily crosses. Of the 15 daily crosses tracked, we projected 14 of them from a median of 20 bars out. It has not crossed on any timeframe since 2/17/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/17/2026 | Death flat | daily | Not tested |
| 11/7/2025 | Death | 4-hour | 6 bar cross test |
| 8/4/2025 | Golden flat | weekly | Not tested |
| 7/15/2025 | Golden steep | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 6/5/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/1/2025 | Death flat | daily | Not tested |
| 12/30/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 7/15/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/15/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 12/15/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 11/30/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 10/3/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 9/28/2023 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 9/13/2023 | Golden | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 8/22/2023 | Death | daily | 5 bar cross test |
| 8/16/2023 | Golden | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 8/15/2023 | Death | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 8/14/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 7/11/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 5/16/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 5/5/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/15/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 4/18/2022 | Death moderate | weekly | Not tested |
| 7/28/2021 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 4/19/2021 | Golden steep | weekly | Not tested |
| 8/7/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/16/2020 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 3/19/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 10/30/2017 | 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.