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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.