LAD | Lithia MotorsNYSEConsumer Discretionary golden cross and death cross projections

LAD is projected to death cross on the daily within 10 bars. On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Jul, but price is now trading below both, and the two averages have been closing on each other.

On the daily, LAD has crossed 19 times, roughly every 6 months, the last one on 7/27/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 2 times, most recently a golden cross in Nov 2024, with price trading below the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 1% lower.

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as of 3 Nov 16:00 ET

LAD cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017

36 golden and death crosses since 2017, with 2 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 19 daily crosses from a median of 21 bars out. The most recent was a death cross on the 4-hour, on 10/8/2026.

Crossed
10/8/2026Death4-hourNot tested
7/27/2026Golden moderatedailyNot tested
6/11/2026Golden4-hourNot tested
3/5/2026Death steepdailyNot tested
2/24/2026Death4-hourNot tested
12/19/2025Golden moderatedailyNot tested
12/16/2025Golden4-hourNot tested
11/10/2025Death flatdailyNot tested
10/24/2025Golden flatdaily4 bar cross test
10/15/2025Death4-hour1 bar cross test
9/9/2025Golden4-hour—
8/13/2025Death4-hour—
6/16/2025Golden4-hour—
4/16/2025Death moderatedailyNot tested
3/7/2025Death4-hour—
11/25/2024Golden moderateweeklyNot tested
9/23/2024GoldendailyNot tested
8/9/2024Golden4-hour—
4/11/2024DeathdailyNot tested
4/5/2024Death4-hour—
12/27/2023Golden4-hour—
12/18/2023GoldendailyNot tested
12/8/2023Deathdaily3 bar cross test
10/12/2023Death4-hour—
6/15/2023GoldendailyNot tested
6/15/2023Golden4-hour—
4/21/2023DeathdailyNot tested
4/17/2023Death moderateweekly3 bar cross test
3/31/2023Death4-hour—
3/10/2023Goldendaily1 bar cross test
9/20/2021Deathdaily3 bar cross test
7/9/2020GoldendailyNot tested
3/9/2020DeathdailyNot tested
3/13/2019Goldendaily5 bar cross test
4/5/2018DeathdailyNot tested
7/26/2017GoldendailyNot tested

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.

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