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Death Cross
Death Cross
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Technical Indicator
A Death Cross is a technical chart patters that occurs when an index's near-term moving average falls below is long-term moving average while both averages are declining
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It is common to use the 50 and 200 day moving averages
Fairly Rare -Has only happened 12 times from 1928 to 2018 in the
S&P
500 50/200 averages
Typically suggests that the
index
will continue to decline