SCL | Stepan Co.NYSEConsumer Staples golden cross and death cross projections

On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since May, and price is trading above both. No cross is projected on the daily or the weekly inside the 30 bars we track.

On the daily, SCL has crossed 18 times, roughly every 6 months, the last one on 5/12/2026. On the weekly it has crossed just once, a death cross in Oct 2022, with price trading below the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 9% lower.

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as of 3 Nov 16:00 ET

SCL cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2017

31 golden and death crosses since 2017, with one on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 18 daily crosses from a median of 23 bars out. The most recent was a golden cross on the 4-hour, on 6/24/2026.

Crossed
6/24/2026Golden4-hourNot tested
5/12/2026Golden flatdaily4 bar cross test
5/4/2026Death steepdaily1 bar cross test
3/25/2026Death4-hour4 bar cross test
2/9/2026Golden steepdailyNot tested
1/7/2026Golden4-hourNot tested
8/14/2025Death4-hour—
7/7/2025Golden4-hour—
12/16/2024Death4-hour—
12/11/2024Golden4-hour—
8/6/2024Death4-hour—
8/1/2024Deathdaily1 bar cross test
7/29/2024Golden4-hour—
4/2/2024Death4-hour—
1/24/2024Goldendaily2 bar cross test
12/11/2023Golden4-hour—
3/31/2023Deathdaily3 bar cross test
3/9/2023Death4-hour—
12/8/2022Goldendaily2 bar cross test
10/31/2022Death moderateweekly6 bar cross test
8/5/2021DeathdailyNot tested
7/23/2020GoldendailyNot tested
3/24/2020DeathdailyNot tested
2/27/2019GoldendailyNot tested
12/21/2018DeathdailyNot tested
8/6/2018GoldendailyNot tested
5/17/2018DeathdailyNot tested
4/20/2018Goldendaily1 bar cross test
12/14/2017DeathdailyNot tested
10/23/2017Goldendaily3 bar cross test
9/19/2017Deathdaily3 bar cross test

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.