How the score works
The Dalí Score, explained
A single 0–100 number that answers one question: how close is this stock to its own 365-day low, right now — and does that still look like the bottom, or like a stock still falling?
The core question
Proximity to the 365-day low
Every stock we track has traded somewhere between a 365-day high and low. The Dalí Score starts by measuring how close today's price sits to that low — a stock trading right at its low scores highest here, one still well above it scores near zero.
- Worth half the total score — it's the question this site exists to answer
- Recalculated fresh every day from the stock's own trailing 365-day range, not a fixed benchmark
Two more inputs
How recently, and which direction
Proximity alone can't tell a stock that just touched its low today from one that hasn't come near it in eleven months. Two more factors round out the picture, each worth a quarter of the score.
- Recency — a low hit today scores far higher than one from months ago, even at the same price
- Momentum — the last ten trading days, so a stock that's stabilized reads differently than one still sliding
Reading the pill
Four tiers, one color code
Those three inputs blend into the single number shown next to every stock. The color is just a quick read of that number — it never changes what the number means.
- 85+ Extreme — right at the low, recently, and not still falling
- 65–84 High — close to the low on most of the same terms
- 40–64 Mid — approaching the low, or drifting away from a recent one
- <40 Low — well above its own 365-day low
What it isn't
A high score is not a buy signal, and a low one isn't a sell signal. Some investors read "near its low" as an opportunity; others read it as a warning sign the market has priced in for a reason. The score describes where a stock sits — it doesn't take a side on what happens next.
Putting it to the test
The DALI Tracker
Rather than just assert the score means something, every stock that ever reaches Extreme (85+) for the first time gets a permanent, public record: the date it triggered, and a hypothetical $10,000 trade tracked from that day forward, for as long as we keep tracking the stock.
- One entry per stock, created the moment it first crosses 85+ — never removed, win or lose
- A running chart of what that $10,000 would be worth today, updated daily
A personal note
Why Dalí
The first time I stood in front of Salvador Dalí's Saint John of the Cross I was a kid, and it stopped me cold. He paints the crucifixion from directly above, looking straight down through the cross into a quiet harbor below — an angle no one had used for that subject before. I didn't have words for it then, but I understood something: the same thing can look completely different depending on where you choose to stand.
That's the idea this site borrows his name for. A stock's price hasn't changed just because you're looking at how close it is to its own 365-day low instead of its headline — but the angle changes what you see. Dalí Stocks 365 doesn't tell you what to do with that view. It just gives you a different one, the way that painting gave one to me.
— Joel, founder