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Post-Market Recap — Friday, May 22
A gentle close to a strong week. Today's session ended the books down a touch — net minus $135 — with one strategy that fit the day and one that didn't quite. Easy to absorb, and the kind of result the suite is built to take in stride. More importantly, the week as a whole finished comfortably in the green at +$2,850.
We're curious about all of you; what was your performance like today? This week?
The Market:
NQ drifted higher by about 0.2% into the close, with megacaps and semis catching a constructive bid as headlines around the U.S./Iran framework continued to firm up. The S&P 500 is on track for an eighth consecutive weekly gain, which tells you the underlying direction. But — and this is the texture that mattered today — the constructive bid was tempered by a sharp jump in the 2-year yield (highest since early 2025) after Fed Governor Waller floated that the next move could just as easily be a hike. Add in a Friday before a three-day Memorial Day weekend and you get a tape that drifts in the right direction but never commits to extension. Modest range. Modest conviction. Plenty of small wiggles around fair value.
The Suite's Reaction
- Nodalis — +$115 in a single trade. This was Nodalis's kind of session. Modest drift means VWAP holds as a magnet; the small headline-driven pushes stretched price away from it just enough to register as a clean standard-deviation extension before the tape pulled back to fair value. Reversion math needs a stretch that mean-reverts, not one that runs. Today delivered exactly that, and Nodalis grabbed the cleanest one.
- Nexum — ($250) across the session. Standard parameters back in place (yesterday's 50/100-tick adjustment was tactical and reverted on schedule). Nexum's model layer correctly identified that direction was forming — it was leaning the right way — but the Waller-driven yield jump kept truncating each leg before it could deliver the extension a standard trend trade requires. A small, contained loss on the right read of direction without the follow-through to monetize it. That's a fair price for staying engaged in a constructive but uncommitted tape.
- Volturon — no trade. ADX never crossed into trending territory; a 0.2% drift doesn't generate the directional impulse Volturon's EMA crossover needs. Correctly stood down.
- Quantivus — no trade. Yesterday the Nvidia post-earnings fade broke Mag 7 cohesion and gave Quantivus a clean dispersion trade. Today, on a broad megacap bid, the cohort re-clustered — names moved together, semis recovered, and the cross-sectional spread Quantivus needs collapsed back to nothing. No dispersion, no trade.
- Parallax — no live trade. Still running in SIM while we complete validation of the recent revisions.
Week in review:
- Monday +$1,760. The week's anchor. Volturon hit its daily target on a clean directional downtrend; Quantivus took one high-conviction Mag 7 divergence trade for the day's biggest single contribution; Nexum gave back a small amount on the morning's character change.
- Tuesday +$510. Volturon banked its target in two quick morning trades; Nexum took a small loss on a capped pre-Nvidia tape.
- Wednesday $0. Full sit-out the day before Nvidia's print. The market wasn't trading, so neither were the algorithms.
- Thursday +$715. Nexum ran on tactically adjusted parameters and caught two short headline bursts; Quantivus took a clean divergence trade once post-earnings dispersion appeared.
- Friday ($135).
Five sessions, +$2,850 net, with every profitable day driven by a different engine stepping forward as conditions changed. Monday's clean trend day belonged to Volturon and Quantivus together. Tuesday's morning reversal belonged to Volturon. Thursday's burst-and-dispersion regime belonged to Nexum and Quantivus. Today's modest reversion drift belonged to Nodalis. That rotation is the suite working as designed — no single strategy carrying the whole load, no single strategy idle.
A note on Monday: U.S. markets are closed for Memorial Day. The strategies resume Tuesday morning.
Have a great long weekend, everyone!
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Post-Market Recap — Friday, May 22
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