September 3, 2026
Two Golden Crosses, One Cron Job
A workflow diary: a nightly script against the screener API flagged Veeva and Atlassian on the August 25 Golden Cross list. The numbers one week later.
Second entry in our workflow diary series. This one is for the people who would rather read JSON than scroll a page, because the whole setup runs without opening the site at all.
The five-line workflow
Every evening a cron job calls the REST API:
GET /api/v1/screeners/golden-cross?limit=100
The response carries two fields that make the rest trivial: dataDate, the snapshot date the entire result set came from, and generatedAt, the UTC instant it was read. The script stores each day's symbols keyed by dataDate and prints the set difference to the previous snapshot. New crossovers land in my inbox as five lines of text. If a retrieval ever spans multiple pages, passing date=<dataDate> pins every page to the same snapshot, so the diff can never mix two days.
What the diff said on August 25
The Golden Cross list for Tuesday, August 25 held 40 names, and the diff line that mattered contained two of them: Veeva Systems (VEEV) at $244.36 and Atlassian (TEAM) at $168.79. Two large, liquid enterprise-software names printing the same long-term crossover on the same day. When a lagging, mechanical event like a 50/200 crossover fires on two names from one corner of the market at once, I read it as a statement about the corner, not just the names.
For both I did the two-minute check in the browser afterwards: chart, then the AI chat next to it, asking for the volume trend and whether the crossover came with expanding participation. Reading the answer beats computing it myself at 11 pm.
One week of numbers
| Symbol | Cross (Aug 25) | Worst close after | Latest in this entry | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VEEV | $244.36 | never below entry | $279.23 (Sep 2) | +14.3% |
| TEAM | $168.79 | $166.49 (-1.4%, Aug 26) | $192.08 (Aug 31) | +13.8% |
The paths differed in a way worth recording. Veeva sat still for two sessions, $244 to $245, then repriced violently in a single session to $282.13 on August 28 and has held the level since. Atlassian first dipped below the crossover price, the only underwater moment either name produced, then walked up almost daily: $185.62 on the 28th, $192.08 on the 31st. Same event, same day, same sector, two different tempos.
The honest footnote
The August 25 list held 40 crossovers, and we are showing you the two that worked best from the group we watched; golden crosses also fire on charts that go nowhere afterwards, and one week proves nothing about the next one. The point of this entry is the workflow economics: a mechanical event, detected by a script against a documented API, delivered as a diff, verified in two minutes with the chat. The screener did the watching; I only did the deciding.
Related Resources
- Golden Cross Screener for today's crossovers.
- API Documentation for the endpoint, dataDate and date pinning.
- Two Golden Crosses, Two Weeks Later for an earlier review of the same list.
This article is a retrospective review of historical data for educational purposes only. It is not investment advice, the examples were selected after the fact because they performed well, and screener appearances are data points, not recommendations.