SMMDAMEX| iShares Russell 2500 ETF golden cross and death cross

On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Jul 2025, 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, SMMD has crossed 12 times, roughly every 7 months, the last one on 7/23/2025. On the weekly it has crossed 4 times, most recently a golden cross in Mar 2024, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 4% lower.

On the 4-hour chart a death cross is projected within 10 bars, which is the nearest-term signal here.

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SMMD cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018

28 golden and death crosses since 2018, with 4 on the weekly timeframe. 2023 alone holds five of the 12 daily crosses. We projected all 12 daily crosses from a median of 24 bars out. The most recent was a golden cross on the 4-hour, on 4/17/2026.

Crossed
4/17/2026Golden4-hour
4/2/2026Death4-hour
7/23/2025Goldendaily
6/9/2025Golden4-hour
3/31/2025Deathdaily
2/27/2025Death4-hour
1/30/2025Golden4-hour
1/27/2025Death4-hour
7/22/2024Golden4-hour
6/27/2024Death4-hour
3/22/2024Goldenweekly
1/19/2024Deathweekly
12/28/2023Goldendaily
12/15/2023Goldenweekly
12/14/2023Golden4-hour
11/10/2023Deathweekly
10/17/2023Deathdaily
9/26/2023Death4-hour
6/29/2023Goldendaily
6/23/2023Golden4-hour
4/26/2023Deathdaily
3/24/2023Death4-hour
1/26/2023Goldendaily
1/24/2022Deathdaily
8/6/2020Goldendaily
3/19/2020Deathdaily
4/17/2019Goldendaily
11/16/2018Deathdaily

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.

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