AdvisorShares Trust AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Short ETF
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Top 10 Holdings
What is DWSH?
The AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Short ETF (Ticker: DWSH) is managed by Nasdaq Dorsey Wright a firm renowned for relative strength investing. Relative strength investing involves buying securities that have appreciated in price more than the other securities in their investment universe and holding those securities until they exhibit sell signals. In implementing DWSH s shorting strategy to its core philosophy of relative strength investing, Dorsey Wright identifies and short sells those securities with the highest relative weakness within an investment universe primarily comprised of large-capitalization U.S.-traded equities. DWSH s investment process is purely systematic and removes any human emotion from the day-to-day decision making.
DWSHPerformance Measures**
for the time period Jul 11, 2018 to Dec 5, 2025
1M Trailing Return: -3.3%
The percent change in the value over the most recent 1-month period.
3M Trailing Return: 3.9%
The percent change in the value over the most recent 3-month period.
Max Drawdown: -82.3%
The greatest percent loss from peak to trough in value over the time period.
Standard Deviation: 31.8%
The typical amount that daily returns vary from the mean of the returns over the time period, standardized to a period of a year.
Sharpe Ratio: -0.32
The annualized arithmetic mean of the daily returns divided by the annualized standard deviation of the daily returns for the selected time period.
Calmar Ratio: -0.17
The annualized return divided by the max drawdown for the selected time period.
ETFs related toDWSH
ETFs correlated to DWSH include HDGE, RWM, TZA
What is ETF correlation?
Correlation is a measure of the strength of the relationship between two ETFs. It quantifies the degree to which prices of the two ETFs typically move together.
Here, correlation is measured over the past year with the Pearson correlation coefficient (Pearon’s r), which ranges from -1 to 1.
Using ETF correlations in portfolio and strategy construction
ETF correlations can help you create investing strategies and portfolios. Use them to:
- •Build a diversified portfolio from uncorrelated or inversely correlated ETFs with the aim of minimizing portfolio risk.
- •Compare correlated or related ETFs to find one with a lower expense ratio or higher trading volume.
- •Create an investing strategy that hedges an ETF with an uncorrelated or inversely correlated ETF.
Trading Strategies
Related toDWSH
Which Way Is Up? Trading 1.3
Category
Tactical, trend-following, momentum, volatility, leveraged ETFs, inverse ETFs, sector rotation, daily rebalancing
OOS Cumulative Return
278.52%
Which Way Is Up? Trading 1.1
Category
Trend-following, RSI/momentum, volatility timing, tactical allocation, leveraged & inverse ETFs, regime switching
OOS Cumulative Return
140.86%
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