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End-of-Day Recap – May 13, 2026
Now that is what a recovery day looks like. All five strategies engaged, four came out green, and the lone loser was contained. Net for the day: roughly $1,350.
The Market
A genuinely surprising tape. PPI came in worse than yesterday's CPI — wholesale inflation jumped 6.0% year-over-year vs. 5.0% expected, with monthly PPI at 1.4% vs. 0.5% forecast — the biggest jump since 2022. Markets opened red. Then something unusual happened: instead of compounding yesterday's selloff, buyers stepped in aggressively. Tech led a sharp intraday recovery, and the Nasdaq closed up 1.20% at a fresh record close of 26,402.34. The S&P 500 also notched a new high (+0.58%), while the Dow actually finished slightly negative as money rotated into tech and out of communication and financial names. Chip stocks rebounded hard after yesterday's bloodbath. Treasurys hit fresh 2026 yield highs, but equities ignored it. Underneath: over half of NYSE issues actually declined on the day, even as the indexes closed at records. Narrow leadership, sharp intraday reversal, classic "bad news rejected" price action.
That reversal — and its narrow leadership profile — is the key to today's results.
How the suite performed
- Volturon — $1,000 (target hit). ✅ Top performer. Once the morning selloff exhausted and the recovery began, Volturon's EMA crossover engine engaged with the developing uptrend. Today's volatility profile fit the trailing-stop framework far better than yesterday — the move held without the choppy counter-thrusts that hurt it on Tuesday. Same engine, two consecutive days, opposite results based on whether the trend was sustained or jagged. Clean redemption.
- Quantivus — $270. ✅ Today's narrow leadership produced exactly the kind of structural divergence the CDI framework is built for: tech megacaps ripping while financials and communication services lagged (Salesforce -2.81%, Home Depot -2.52% on the Dow side). That dispersion drove a clean intermarket signal. Small dollars, right read.
- Parallax — $210 (was up over $1,000 early). ✅ Worth being honest about this one. Parallax caught the morning over-extension to the downside beautifully and was sitting on a $1,000+ unrealized gain early. The afternoon reversal then ate most of that back as the recovery extended further than the reversion framework expected, and the trailing exit gave back the bulk of the win. Final result was still green — but a real lesson in how powerful reversal days can fade strong reversion setups. The system locked in a profit; the timing on the exit just wasn't optimal. We'll review.
- Nodalis — $100. ✅ Small but meaningful. With the trend filter detecting both the morning downtrend and the afternoon recovery, Nodalis found one clean Z-score fade and converted. Two consecutive sessions in the green for a strategy that sat out almost the entire prior month. The filter combined with the new sensitivity is clearly opening up trade-able opportunities the older version would have missed.
- Nexum — -$230 on multiple trades. The only loser of the day, and worth understanding why. The TrendFollowing/MeanReversion ensemble took several trades through the morning chop and the early-recovery indecision before signal quality stabilized.
The takeaway
A genuinely good day in a regime that was hard to read in advance. Hot PPI followed by a record-high close is not a setup most systems handle well — but four out of five strategies found their spot, and the one that didn't kept its loss small. After two consecutive losing sessions, today's recovery is a meaningful reset. Worth noting: this is now a 5-of-7 streak of net-positive sessions for Parallax, even with today's give-back, and Nodalis has quietly stacked two wins in a row. The mean-reversion side of the suite is clearly stepping up as overall market volatility has expanded.
Looking ahead
Tomorrow brings retail sales and import/export prices — quieter data, hopefully less binary than this week's CPI and PPI shocks. The suite is in a much better rhythm heading into it.
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End-of-Day Recap – May 13, 2026
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