Golden Cross, SMA 200 Moving Average Strategy (by ChartArt)

19 Jun 2016

This famous moving average strategy is very easy to follow to decide when to buy (go long) and when to take profit.

The strategy goes long when the faster SMA 50 (the simple moving average of the last 50 bars) crosses above the slower SMA 200. Orders are closed when the SMA 50 crosses below the SMA 200. This simple strategy does not have any other stop loss or take profit money management logic. The strategy does not short and goes long only!

Here is an article explaining the "golden cross" strategy in more detail:
stockopedia.com/content/trading-the-golden-cross-does-it-really-work-69694/

On the S&P 500 index (symbol "SPX") this strategy worked on the daily chart 81% since price data is available since 1982. And on the DOW Jones Industrial Average (symbol "DOWI") this strategy worked on the daily chart 55% since price data is available since 1916. The low number of trades is in both cases not statistically significant though.


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