MCD | McDonald's CorporationNYSEConsumer Discretionary golden cross and death cross projections
MCD 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 May, with price now sitting between the two, though the two averages have been drifting apart.
On the daily, MCD has crossed 17 times, roughly every 6 months, the last one on 5/8/2026. It has never crossed on the weekly in the history we hold.
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MCD cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018
36 golden and death crosses since 2018, and none at all on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 17 daily crosses from a median of 25 bars out. It has not crossed on any timeframe since 5/8/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 5/8/2026 | Death steep | daily | Not tested |
| 4/10/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 12/18/2025 | Golden moderate | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 12/8/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 12/1/2025 | Death | 4-hour | 3 bar cross test |
| 11/11/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | 3 bar cross test |
| 11/7/2025 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 11/6/2025 | Death flat | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 11/5/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | 4 bar cross test |
| 11/4/2025 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 10/27/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | 3 bar cross test |
| 10/9/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 9/4/2025 | Golden moderate | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 8/27/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 7/30/2025 | Death moderate | daily | 5 bar cross test |
| 6/23/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 2/25/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 1/3/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 9/24/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/16/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 5/1/2024 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 4/1/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 1/11/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 12/6/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 10/5/2023 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 8/21/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 4/3/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/3/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 8/9/2022 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/30/2022 | Death | daily | 4 bar cross test |
| 8/11/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/17/2020 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 2/20/2020 | Golden | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 11/29/2019 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 10/15/2018 | Golden | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 4/2/2018 | Death | daily | 4 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.