VCIT | Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETFNASDAQ golden cross and death cross projections
On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat below the 200 since Apr, and price is trading below both. No cross is projected on the daily or the weekly inside the 30 bars we track.
On the daily, VCIT has crossed 13 times, roughly every 8 months, the last one on 4/6/2026. On the weekly it has crossed 2 times, most recently a golden cross in Jul 2025, with price trading above the 50/200 cross point that day. It ended the following week where it started.
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VCIT cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018
30 golden and death crosses since 2018, with 2 on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 13 daily crosses from a median of 25 bars out. It has not crossed on any timeframe since 4/6/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/6/2026 | Death moderate | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 3/19/2026 | Death | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 2/24/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 1/5/2026 | Death | 4-hour | 8 bar cross test |
| 7/7/2025 | Golden flat | weekly | 1 bar cross test |
| 7/2/2025 | Golden steep | daily | Not tested |
| 5/16/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 5/6/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 4/29/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/24/2025 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 3/10/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 1/13/2025 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 11/7/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 6/14/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 4/12/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 1/5/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 12/5/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 8/7/2023 | Death | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 5/31/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 4/4/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/16/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 2/6/2023 | Golden | daily | 3 bar cross test |
| 6/6/2022 | Death steep | weekly | Not tested |
| 11/3/2021 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 8/9/2021 | Golden | daily | 6 bar cross test |
| 3/9/2021 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 6/11/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/31/2020 | Death | daily | 1 bar cross test |
| 2/13/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 1/2/2018 | Death | daily | Not tested |
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.