Moving average crossover
Moving Average Crossover
What it measures
The oldest way of catching a turn in trend: watch where a short average meets a long one. A 20-day average crossing above the 60-day is called a golden cross; crossing below, a death cross.
How TickTurn reads it
We measure how far above (or below) the 60-day average the 20-day average sits, as a percentage. A gap under 0.3% is treated as no crossover yet, so it counts neutral; above is bullish, below is bearish.
That judgement is made on closed daily bars only; a bar still in progress is left out, because including it makes the same symbol change its answer within the day. On the result screen this indicator holds one vote out of 21.
It is not an answer on its own
If one indicator could call tomorrow, everyone would use only that one. TickTurn asks 21 of them together not because any single one is trusted, but to show plainly where they disagree. Even the combined score, measured against the right baseline, came out only a shade better than chance — the scoring is written up in how we tested.