Everywhere I turn I am seeing posts and articles about various stocks, indicies and asset classes whose charts are displaying (or about to) the “ominous” death cross.  I even pointed out the pending one in Bitcoin, about two weeks ago. While that one occurred shortly after, and marked a two day selloff that promptly took place, it ended in a short term bottom that has since led to a rally that has extended above the point where that decline began.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      That leads me to the point of this piece. Given the speed and widespread reach provided by the internet and the proliferation of technical analysis practioners seen on platforms like X and YouTube, many T/A occurrences are either over hyped and or incorrectly identified.  (One of my biggest pet peeves is the numerous erroneous calls of charts supposedly displaying H&S  and or Cup&Handle formations.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Death Crosses (and their bullish cousins Golden Crosses) while still being valid tools,  have lost some of their meaning and importance. Due to over awareness, they now often occur after the sharp drop lower in the chart has already begun or even in some cases, completed.                                                                                                                                                                                            One needs to stay vigilant when seeing the likelihood of a pending cross, but realize the size and timing of the move, like many things in T/A, is a not an automatic formula. The technical part may be largely math, but the analysis part is largely interpretation. A good practioner combines science with art.