You have met golden and death crosses. This lesson introduces the three crosses the course actually trades by.
The Wolf Cross: SMA 8 and SMA 55
The yellow 8 crossing the white 55. Up through it is bullish; down through it is bearish. On the weekly it is rare and heavy; on the daily it is frequent and lighter; on the four-hour it is a tactical read. The author calls it the strongest cross in the method and notes that a bearish daily cross has often been followed by weeks of sideways or down price. "Often" is the right word: look at the history yourself before you believe it.
The lesson chart paints both lines and marks every 8/55 cross with an arrow, haloing the latest. Step through 1D and 1W and count how many bullish crosses led to a real leg up, and how many printed late or reversed within a few bars. That ratio is the honest value of the signal.
The 13/34 EMA cross
The teal 13 and the pink 34. Same reading, faster, used as confirmation of the Wolf Cross rather than on its own.
The two 200s
The light-green 200 EMA and the dark-green 200 SMA. The exponential average reacts faster, so in a rising market it sits above the simple one, and in a falling market below. The course reads EMA 200 above SMA 200 as the long-term bullish configuration and the reverse as bearish.
The workflow
- Check the Wolf Cross on the daily.
- Confirm with the 13/34 on the daily.
- Check the two 200s for the long-term bias.
- Drop to the four-hour on the Technical Analysis chart for timing.
- Only then look for an entry.
Screening the market for it
The Scanner has a Wolf Cross preset: every coin whose 8 SMA crossed above its 55 SMA in the last five weekly bars. Switch it to daily or four-hour bars, or flip the cross to bearish, in the criteria builder. Each result row has a bell that creates a Wolf Cross alert rule for that coin, so the next cross reaches your notification centre.
In the lab
Run both markers on the weekly. Find a stretch where the Wolf Cross and the 13/34 agreed, and one where they disagreed. Then open the Scanner, run the Wolf Cross preset, and write the top three results in your journal with the date. Check back in a month.