THE WEEK AT A GLANCE Subject: Strategy Suite Highlights – Week of March 16, 2026 Good evening, Here are some of this week’s highlights. THE WEEK AT A GLANCE This was one of the most volatile weeks of 2026. The Iran conflict escalated sharply, oil swung between $93 and $112+, the Fed held rates steady while warning that energy prices could keep inflation elevated, and Friday’s Triple Witching and S&P 500 rebalance piled mechanical volatility on top of an already chaotic tape. All three major indexes logged a fourth straight weekly loss, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting their lowest levels since November. SESSION HIGHLIGHTS Tuesday (3/17) — Choppy, low-conviction session ahead of the Fed. • Volturon: Hit profit target (first live session with new auto-sizing) • Nexum: Two trades, small profit • Quantivus: Stopped out • Parallax: Stopped out Thursday (3/19) — Dramatic V-reversal after Iran/Qatar LNG headlines flipped on Strait of Hormuz reopening news. • Volturon: Stopped out • Nexum: One losing trade, then sat out • Quantivus: Hit profit target • Parallax: Hit profit target Friday (3/20) — Triple Witching + war escalation. Sim session (no live capital at risk). • Volturon: Flat (stop removed for testing; trade recovered to breakeven by close) • Nexum: One losing trade at 11:00 AM, then sat out • Quantivus: Small profit • Parallax: Small profit KEY TAKEAWAYS The suite’s diversification worked as designed this week. Tuesday favored Volturon’s momentum approach while the follow-through strategies stopped out. Thursday was the mirror image — Quantivus and Parallax thrived on the big reversal while Volturon’s early entry got caught. Friday’s sim session gave us stress-test data in an extreme environment, and both Quantivus and Parallax still managed small gains on a day the Nasdaq fell nearly 2%. We’re also auditing Nexum’s AI learning data to remove patterns absorbed from recent abnormal sessions. Think of it as routine maintenance — making sure the system is learning from quality market behavior, not headline-driven chaos.

Volturon opened with a winner followed by three losses but it was good to see the auto sizing in action taking some partial profits and limiting overall losses. Nexum was 2 out of 3 winners. Both strategies holding their own during tough trading day.

Caution is in order. And it's not just the news. Today is Triple Witching Friday — a quarterly event where a massive number of options and futures contracts expire at the same time. This forces institutional traders to close or roll over billions of dollars in positions, which typically means much higher volume and choppier-than-normal price action, especially near the open and in the final hour of trading. On top of that, the S&P 500 is being rebalanced today, which adds another wave of mandatory buying and selling from the large index funds. Historically, triple witching days run about 3x normal volume with a slight negative bias. Layer in the ongoing Iran conflict (Brent crude is pushing back toward $110 this morning), a hawkish Fed that just signaled only one rate cut for the rest of 2026, and a VIX sitting near 25 — and you have a session where big moves are likely, but the direction of those moves is hard to predict. What does this mean for our strategies? VOLTURON thrives on clean early momentum. If the open produces a clear directional move driven by real market conviction, Volturon is well-positioned to capture it quickly. The risk is that today’s opening move turns out to be driven by expiration mechanics rather than genuine trend — similar to yesterday’s early fake-out. Either way, the stop loss is there to manage the downside. NEXUM is designed for days like this. Its adaptive engine can recognize when the tape is being driven by noise rather than signal, and it has the ability to stay selective or sit out entirely. In a session full of conflicting forces, discipline and patience are the edge. QUANTIVUS and PARALLAX both performed well yesterday because the market delivered a big range with sustained follow-through once the reversal kicked in. They need that same kind of committed directional move today to reach their targets. If the session produces one, they’re built to capture it. If it stays choppy and directionless, their stops will keep losses contained.

Lately, it's all about the news. QUANTIVUS hit its daily profit target. PARALLAX hit its daily profit target. NEXUM took one losing trade before shutting down. VOLTURON hit its stop loss. Today was a textbook V-reversal. NQ opened down over 1% after overnight reports that Iranian strikes knocked out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity, sending Brent crude above $112. The early tape was pure risk-off panic, with the VIX spiking to nearly 25 and almost 70% of equities declining. Then the headlines flipped. Israel announced it’s helping reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Netanyahu declared Iran can no longer enrich uranium or build ballistic missiles. The U.S. authorized Russian crude deliveries. Oil collapsed from its highs and the market staged a massive recovery — the S&P 500 erased its entire 1% drop, and the Nasdaq clawed back to close down just 0.28%. Volturon caught the early momentum on the opening selloff, but the reversal invalidated the trade and the stop did its job. Nexum recognized the chaos quickly and stepped aside after one 10:30 trade. Quantivus and Parallax, however, are built for exactly this kind of high-range, high-follow-through session — the recovery move gave them the sustained directionality they need, and both locked in their targets. If you compare this to Tuesday’s session where Volturon hit its target while Quantivus and Parallax stopped out, today is the mirror image. That’s the suite working as designed — different strategies for different conditions, and today’s conditions favored the divergence and dynamical-systems models.