Golden Cross
The moment a 50-day moving average crosses above a 200-day moving average, conventionally read as the start of a long-term uptrend. Its bearish mirror — the 50-day crossing below — is the death cross. Golden-cross strategies trade rarely and exist mainly to hold bull markets while sidestepping deep bear markets, always at the cost of lag around turning points.
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