how do you check a death cross 
technical traders use both a 50 day and 200 day moving average to determine if a death cross has occurred a death cross occurs when the 50 day moving average is above the 200 day moving average and then crosses below the 200 day moving average the bottom linethe death cross is used in technical analysis by traders to understand a stock s price movement whereby it notifies a trader that the short term moving average has fallen below a longer term moving average which signals a bearish trend 