How It Trades
- Compute two simple moving averages: a medium 50-bar one and a long 200-bar one.
- Buy on the golden cross: the 50-bar average crossing above the 200-bar: the medium-term trend has overtaken the long-term one, the classic sign a major uptrend is underway.
- Sell on the death cross, when the 50-bar average crosses back below the 200-bar.
Example Strategy
Pine Script
Paste it into TradingView’s Pine Editor to run these rules on any chart.
//@version=6
// Golden Cross 50 200 — sort.finance. Fills at the signal bar's close, 0.02% fee a side,
// whole account per trade, as the backtest. History and indicator warm-up
// differ from the site's, so expect close to the same trades, not identical.
strategy("Golden Cross 50 200", overlay=true,
initial_capital=100, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity,
default_qty_value=100, commission_type=strategy.commission.percent,
commission_value=0.02, process_orders_on_close=true, pyramiding=0)
// The bar the current position opened on, and the bar the last one closed on.
var int entryBar = na
var int exitBar = -1
// ── Signals ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
fast = ta.sma(close, 50)
slow = ta.sma(close, 200)
above = fast > slow
enterNow = above and not above[1]
exitNow = not above and above[1]
// ── Orders ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Open on the first bar the entry holds while flat; close on the first
// later bar the exit holds; never reopen on the bar a position closed.
inTrade = strategy.position_size != 0
if inTrade and bar_index > entryBar and exitNow
strategy.close("Long")
exitBar := bar_index
else if not inTrade and bar_index > exitBar and enterNow
strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long)
entryBar := bar_index
// ── Drawing ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
plot(fast, "SMA 50", color=#4d8dff)
plot(slow, "SMA 200", color=#e0a03a)