# Death cross — NSE scan

> The 50-day average crossing down through the 200-day.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/death-cross

```sift
where sma(50) crosses below sma(200)
```

The golden cross in reverse, and just as lagging. It is most useful as a filter on everything else you are doing — a name that has just printed one is a poor candidate for a long setup, whatever the rest of the chart looks like.

Category: [Reversals](https://patternsradar.com/scans/reversals.md). Default universe: top 500 NSE stocks by 20-day turnover.

Guides: [Golden cross and death cross on NSE stocks](https://patternsradar.com/blog/golden-cross-death-cross-nse.md).

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/death-cross.