{
  "id": 11218,
  "rank": 2487,
  "name": "50/200-day moving average momentum strategy",
  "aka": [
    "moving-average crossover",
    "Golden Cross/Death Cross"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A1",
  "one_liner": "Buy when the 50-day EMA crosses above the 200-day EMA; sell when it crosses below.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "daily"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "anytime"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 200
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "50-day EMA crosses above 200-day EMA"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "50-day EMA crosses below 200-day EMA"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "no explicit exit rules given, but likely exits on the next price bar after the signal"
  ],
  "filters": [],
  "stop_loss": null,
  "take_profit": null,
  "position_size": null,
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "VERY THIN SAMPLE: 5 trades. Performance figures over so few trades are indistinguishable from luck."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": [
    "DAILY_LOW_COUNT: daily-or-slower timeframe on a single instrument. Expect well under 100 trades in five years, so a backtest will rarely reach statistical significance on its own."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/11218-50-200-day-moving-average-momentum-strategy",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/amritsinha06072022/momentum-trading-backtester",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}