About

A ledger of crosses, kept by someone who follows one of these rules himself

This site exists because the question "when did that fund last cross its 200-day average?" had no page that answered it with a date.

What it is

For 100 popular ETFs and three moving-average rules, movingaveragealerts.com shows which side of the average each fund closed on, the date that side last changed, and how many times it changed this year. It reads the official close every evening, and anyone can ask for an email on the evenings a fund on their list crosses. Every alert sent is written to a record that evening, and the record is never edited afterwards. The method page has every definition.

What it is not

It is not advice, and it does not know you. The same page and the same email go to everyone. "SPY closed below its 200-day average" is a statement about a price series. Whether that means anything for your money is your call, or your adviser's. The site makes no claim that any of these rules beats holding a fund; most of the time, most of them do not, and the research pages will say so with the counts when they are written.

Who runs it

One person, an individual investor in the United States, who runs his own retirement money on a 200-day rule and got tired of checking a chart to see whether the line had been crossed. He is not a registered adviser, broker or fund employee, and the site has no sponsor, no issuer relationship and no advertising. It is kept on a few evenings a month and a small bill.

What he holds

Among the funds listed here, at the time this page was last reviewed (October 2026): QLD and TQQQ, held in rule-driven accounts that trade on the next open after their own 200-day signal, and a money-market or Treasury fund when out. Those positions move when the rule says so and never because of, or ahead of, an alert this site sends. The alerts go out after the close, after the positions are already decided.

Data

Daily closes come from Yahoo Finance daily closes, read after 5 pm New York time, split-adjusted and not dividend-adjusted: the series a broker chart shows. The site stores the history it needs to compute the averages and publishes the sides, the dates and the counts, with the close and the averages printed as a courtesy. If a source is ever replaced, the dates and the record stay; the method page says which series is in use.

Writing to the site

Reply to any alert email and it reaches the keeper. Corrections to a date are welcome and are checked against the series before anything changes.