Golden Cross + Volume

The Golden Cross is one of the most widely watched long-term trend signals: when a stock's 50-day moving average crosses above its 200-day moving average, it marks the start of a durable uptrend (the mirror event, the 50 crossing back below the 200, is the "death cross"). This variant adds a volume-confirmation filter so the cross only triggers an entry when it happens on above-average volume — real participation behind the move, not a drift across the line on a quiet day.

It is an easy, long-term / trending, daily-timeframe strategy. By design it produces few signals: a 50/200 cross is a big, slow event that may happen only once or twice a year on a given name.

How it trades

Buy (golden cross, volume-confirmed):

CROSSOVER(SMA(50), SMA(200)) AND Volume > AVGVOLUME(20)

Sell (death cross):

CROSSUNDER(SMA(50), SMA(200))

CROSSOVER/CROSSUNDER are events, not levels: a crossover is true only on the single candle where the fast SMA moves from at-or-below the slow SMA to strictly above it (and the mirror for crossunder). Concretely, at candle i:

When it works best

A classic institutional, long-term-investing signal. It works best on names that sustain multi-year secular trends, where a golden cross genuinely marks the start of a durable up-leg. Its weakness is the flip side of its strength: it is slow and produces few trades, and in a choppy, range-bound market the 50/200 can cross back and forth, producing late or whipsawed signals even with the volume filter.