Price below EMA20 with EMA20 below EMA50
EMA(20) on a monthly chart smooths roughly 20 months of price action. EMA(50) smooths approximately 50 months -- just over four years. When price is below EMA20 and EMA20 is below EMA50, both short-term and medium-term moving average structure are bearish -- a "bearish stack." This is the monthly equivalent of a death cross, but more significant due to the longer timeframe. The high stock count (206) reflects the current macro environment where a large portion of the universe is in structural decline on longer timeframes. The monthly filter means signals change slowly -- this is not a day-trading screen.
Monthly EMA alignment is used primarily as a filter, not a trade trigger. Most professionals who use this screen avoid initiating new long positions in stocks with bearish monthly stacks, regardless of short-term bounces. For active traders, bearish monthly alignment creates a "sell into strength" bias: short-term bounces to moving average resistance are used as short entry points rather than treated as trend reversals. The primary failure mode is the false bearish signal in a broad bull market -- individual stocks can show bearish monthly EMAs even while the index is near all-time highs. Compare to Price Above 20/50 EMA for the bullish counterpart. Below All MAs Bear is a stricter version requiring alignment across multiple moving averages.
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This screener identifies stocks in a bearish EMA alignment on the Daily timeframe: price is below EMA(20) (20-period Exponential Moving Average), and EMA(20) is itself below EMA(50) (50-period Exponential Moving Average). On a monthly chart, each bar represents one month, so this reflects multi-month structural weakness. Currently 206 stocks match -- the largest count of any EMA alignment screen in ChartMath. Position traders and macro-aware investors use this to identify stocks in confirmed long-term downtrends. Who uses this: investors avoiding long entries in structurally weak stocks, and traders looking for short bias on the Daily timeframe. Search phrases: bearish EMA alignment monthly screener, price below EMA20 EMA50, monthly death cross equivalent.