Affirm Holdings (AFRM) Just Flashed Golden Cross Signal: Do You Buy?

Affirm Holdings, Inc. (AFRM) is looking like an interesting pick from a technical perspective, as the company reached a key level of support. Recently, AFRM's 50-day simple moving average crossed above its 200-day simple moving average, known as a "golden cross."There's a reason traders love a golden cross -- it's a technical chart pattern that can indicate a bullish breakout is on the horizon. This kind of crossover is formed when a stock's short-term moving average breaks above a longer-term moving average. Typically, a golden cross involves the 50-day and the 200-day moving averages, since bigger time periods tend to form stronger breakouts.There are three stages to a golden cross. First, there must be a downtrend in a stock's price that eventually bottoms out. Then, the stock's shorter moving average crosses over its longer moving average, triggering a positive trend reversal. The third stage is when a stock continues the upward momentum to higher prices.A golden cross is the opposite of a death cross, another technical event that indicates bearish price movement may be on the horizon.AFRM has rallied 13.3% over the past four weeks, and the company is a #3 (Hold) on the Zacks Rank at the moment. This combination indicates AFRM could be poised for a breakout.The bullish case only gets stronger once investors take into account AFRM's positive earnings outlook for the current quarter. There have been 10 upward revisions compared to none lower over the past 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has moved up as well.Investors may want to watch AFRM for more gains in the near future given the company's key technical level and positive earnings estimate revisions.Radical New Technology Could Hand Investors Huge GainsQuantum Computing is the next technological revolution, and it could be even more advanced than AI.While some believed the technology was years away, it is already present and moving fast. Large hyperscalers, such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, and even Meta and Tesla, are scrambling to integrate quantum computing into their infrastructure.Senior Stock Strategist Kevin Cook reveals 7 carefully selected stocks poised to dominate the quantum computing landscape in his report, Beyond AI: The Quantum Leap in Computing Power.Kevin was among the early experts who recognized NVIDIA's enormous potential back in 2016. Now, he has keyed in on what could be "the next big thing" in quantum computing supremacy. Today, you have a rare chance to position your portfolio at the forefront of this opportunity.See Top Quantum Stocks Now >>This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com).Zacks Investment ResearchWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Zacks Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Zacks