Is your stock above or below its 200-day moving average?
The SMA200 is the most-watched trend filter in trading. It tells you whether a stock is in a long-term uptrend or downtrend in one binary signal. Type any US ticker to find out instantly.
Today's market
Major indices and ETFs · last close June 4, 2026 · refreshes daily after the bell
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The number
Take the closing price for the last 200 trading days (about 10 months). Average them. That's the 200-day moving average: a slow-moving "trend baseline" for the stock that updates every day.
The signal
Today's close above the SMA200 → the stock is in a long-term uptrend. Today's close below → long-term downtrend. That's the binary read. No chart-pattern interpretation, no judgment calls.
Why people care
It's the most-watched trend filter in markets, used by hedge funds, institutional desks, and retail systems alike. Decades of backtests show "long when above, flat when below" cuts max drawdowns 30-60% versus buy-and-hold, with similar long-term return. Boring, but it works.
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