VAWAMEX| Vanguard Materials ETF golden cross and death cross

VAW is projected to death cross on the daily within 30 bars. On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Jul 2025, but price is now trading below both, and the two averages have been closing on each other.

On the daily, VAW has crossed 14 times, roughly every 7 months, the last one on 7/28/2025. On the weekly it has crossed just once, a golden cross in Dec 2020, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 2% lower.

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VAW cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018

33 golden and death crosses since 2018, with one on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 14 daily crosses from a median of 20 bars out. The most recent was a golden cross on the 4-hour, on 8/24/2026.

Crossed
8/24/2026Golden4-hour
7/9/2026Death4-hour
6/26/2026Golden4-hour
6/10/2026Death4-hour
12/26/2025Golden4-hour
11/5/2025Death4-hour
7/28/2025Goldendaily
6/6/2025Golden4-hour
1/14/2025Deathdaily
12/20/2024Death4-hour
8/23/2024Golden4-hour
8/20/2024Death4-hour
8/16/2024Golden4-hour
8/16/2024Death4-hour
8/15/2024Golden4-hour
7/1/2024Death4-hour
12/29/2023Goldendaily
12/12/2023Golden4-hour
10/12/2023Deathdaily
9/28/2023Death4-hour
7/5/2023Golden4-hour
3/24/2023Death4-hour
1/6/2023Goldendaily
6/15/2022Deathdaily
4/4/2022Goldendaily
3/17/2022Deathdaily
12/18/2020Goldenweekly
7/22/2020Goldendaily
3/12/2020Deathdaily
4/23/2019Goldendaily
6/27/2018Deathdaily
6/14/2018Goldendaily
5/15/2018Deathdaily

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.