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Post-Market Recap — Wednesday, July 1
Q3 opened in the red for the market and in the black for us. As the tape pulled back from record highs, the short side paid, and Nexum owned it, banking its biggest day in weeks. Live, the suite finished well green, led by Nexum's +1,401 alongside a clean Quantivus short. Full trade snapshot attached.
The market: the first session of the second half started soft. June ADP payrolls came in at just 98,000, below expectations and the weakest since March, and ISM Manufacturing eased to 53.3, while a still-hawkish Fed (Warsh back on the wires) and the ongoing rotation out of tech kept pressure on the Nasdaq. NQ chopped hard in the morning, a couple of sharp two-way swings, before leaning lower. A pullback tape, not a trend, and a short-friendly one.
- Nexum — +$1,401, the day's star. It shorted the pullback twice as the morning's rallies rolled over, closing one on its protection logic and riding the other to profit target. On a down-biased, swinging tape, its model kept finding the right side of the move. A standout session.
- Quantivus — +$472, back in the green. One afternoon short, its CDI signal run to profit target as tech slid and the Mag 7 fragmented under the rotation. Clean read, quick resolution, a tidy bounce-back after yesterday's stop.
- Praedor (sim) — -$361. It shorted early at 30,113.50, but the morning's counter-rally carried it to its stop at 30,294 before the downside arrived. Its fade-the-sweep logic faded a dip that snapped back first: right idea, wrong beat. The sim record stays healthy at 230 trades and a 1.37 profit factor.
- Volturon (MNQ) and Parallax — no trade. The choppy, reversal-heavy tape gave Volturon's crossover no sustained trend to ride, and Parallax's regime engine no qualifying setup. Both correctly aside.
- AEME (sim) — no trade. Eligible today, but the swinging pullback offered no clean volatility shock for its shock-acceptance logic to lean on.
Tomorrow is the week's main event, pulled forward: June nonfarm payrolls, unemployment, and hourly earnings all land Thursday morning ahead of Friday's Independence Day close. After a soft ADP, the market will be watching closely, and days that resolve a big number tend to hand us the cleaner moves. Positioned and ready.
A strong, green open to the second half. Onward.
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Post-Market Recap — Wednesday, July 1
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