Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Our New Dashboard Says, ‘Bad Guy Day’.”

May 18th, 2026
David Lundgren, CMT CFA

Highlights

  • Despite the S&P's orderly decline today, price action is anything but orderly beneath the surface.
  • Stocks with high momentum scores are getting smoked today, while stocks with poor momentum scored are getting bought.
  • It is days like today for which we developed, and now share with our clients, the MOTR Dashboard, which helps put all of this into its proper perspective.

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