PTEN | Patterson-UTI EnergyNASDAQEnergy golden cross and death cross projections

PTEN is projected to golden 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 above the 200 since Dec 2025, with price now sitting between the two, and the two averages have been closing on each other.

On the daily, PTEN has crossed 11 times, roughly every 10 months, the last one on 12/30/2025. On the weekly it has crossed 2 times, most recently a death cross in Aug 2024, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 23% lower.

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as of 3 Nov 16:00 ET

PTEN cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017

23 golden and death crosses since 2017, with 2 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 11 daily crosses from a median of 23 bars out. The most recent was a golden cross on the 4-hour, on 8/27/2026.

Crossed
8/27/2026Golden4-hourNot tested
7/7/2026Death4-hourNot tested
12/30/2025Golden flatdaily3 bar cross test
10/31/2025Golden4-hour2 bar cross test
3/17/2025Death4-hour—
1/21/2025Golden4-hour—
8/19/2024Death moderateweeklyNot tested
5/15/2024Death4-hour—
3/13/2024Golden4-hour—
12/1/2023DeathdailyNot tested
10/24/2023Death4-hour—
8/30/2023Goldendaily3 bar cross test
7/12/2023Golden4-hour—
3/9/2023DeathdailyNot tested
2/16/2023Death4-hour—
11/25/2022Goldendaily2 bar cross test
10/10/2022Deathdaily5 bar cross test
3/28/2022Golden moderateweeklyNot tested
12/10/2020GoldendailyNot tested
6/27/2018DeathdailyNot tested
5/22/2018Goldendaily1 bar cross test
4/3/2018Deathdaily2 bar cross test
12/27/2017GoldendailyNot 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.