IGV | iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETFAMEX golden cross and death cross projections
On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Aug, 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, IGV has crossed 10 times, roughly every 10 months, the last one on 8/18/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 2 times, most recently a golden cross in Dec 2023, with price trading below the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 2% lower.
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IGV cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018
20 golden and death crosses since 2018, with 2 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all ten daily crosses from a median of 24 bars out. The most recent was a golden cross on the daily, on 8/18/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/18/2026 | Golden flat | daily | Not tested |
| 5/21/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 1/15/2026 | Death steep | daily | Not tested |
| 11/21/2025 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 6/11/2025 | Golden steep | daily | Not tested |
| 5/21/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/21/2025 | Death steep | daily | 5 bar cross test |
| 3/11/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 7/9/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/26/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 12/4/2023 | Golden steep | weekly | Not tested |
| 11/17/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 10/18/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 3/6/2023 | Golden | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 12/12/2022 | Death steep | weekly | 2 bar cross test |
| 1/25/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 5/27/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 4/22/2020 | Death | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 3/4/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 12/6/2018 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
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.