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About
A fast, tactical strategy that flips daily between leveraged growth (mostly tech) and defensive hedges. It uses a simple hot/cold score, trend and fear gauges to buy dips, fade overheated markets, or retreat to bonds, gold, dollar, commodities, or cash.
Each day it asks: Are stocks hot or cold (a 0–100 “hot/cold” score), is fear high, and are stocks beating commodities? If hot, it briefly bets on a volatility spike (UVXY). If cold, it buys the dip with 3x stock funds. Otherwise it picks a “go‑for‑it” basket (tech/semis/healthcare) or a defensive mix (inverse stocks, Treasuries, gold, dollar, commodities or cash). It sizes positions so shakier funds get smaller weights.
Out-of-sample annualized return ~41% vs S&P 500 ~21%, Sharpe ~1.38 vs ~1.32, Calmar ~1.84. Daily tactical shifts between growth bets and hedges aim for higher long-run alpha, with ~22% max drawdown but stronger upside.
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OOS Start Date
Nov 14, 2022
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Tactical allocation, leveraged etfs, momentum & mean‑reversion, volatility timing, risk-on/risk-off, daily rebalancing
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 25 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
CURE
Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X Shares
Stocks
DBC
Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Stocks
GLD
SPDR Gold Trust, SPDR Gold Shares
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
PDBC
Invesco Actively Managed Exch-Traded Commodity Fd Tr Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
Stocks
SH
ProShares Short S&P500
Stocks
SOXL
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares
Stocks