Anansi Portfolio | 2024-08-27 | Longer BT | testing half-front-runner
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About
A complex, daily-rebalanced, cross-asset strategy that blends momentum, mean-reversion, and volatility hedges across stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and volatility ETFs to seek growth while trimming risk through hedges and defensive sleeves.
- The plan is rebalanced daily and starts from a cash baseline, then distributes weights across many thematic blocks (eg VIX hedging, Bear/Momentum sleeves, U.S. Dollar, Energy/Commodities momentum, and Bond modules).
- Signals are generated from a wide mix of price-based and momentum indicators applied to a broad set of tickers/ETFs (eg VOO, QQQ, SPY for stocks; IEF, BND, TMF for bonds; UVXY and other volatility proxies for hedging; GLD for gold; DBC for commodities; UUP for dollar, etc.).
- RSI-like momentum checks and moving-average comparisons are used to decide if a group should be favored or avoided. When a ticker’s momentum is strong (high RSI or favorable moving-average crossovers), the strategy tends to allocate to that group. When momentum deteriorates or volatility spikes, hedges are added or riskier bets are reduced.
- The VIX hedging blocks create exposure to volatility via UVXY (and related hedges SPLV/BTAL) to dampen drawdowns during stress periods. There are separate “VIX Blend” and “Smooth Safety” layers that determine how aggressively to deploy these hedges.
- There are Bear-like sleeves (eg short/inverse exposure to QQQ, SPY variants) that can be activated when defensive conditions are signaled, but these are controlled by multiple checks (e.g., moving-average relationships, RSI, and drawdown filters) to avoid overreacting to short-term noise.
- The strategy includes sector and macro layers (e.g., TINA, 20/60 Machine, SVXY FTLT variants) that attempt to assemble diversified winners or reduce risk using top/bottom screeners (selecting 1–3 assets with the best momentum or worst risk metrics), sometimes with leverage-like weighting to emphasize a few positions.
- It also contains items to monitor and hedge major macro risk factors (eg U.S. dollar strength, Treasury exposure, energy demand signals, and gold exposure) to balance the overall risk-return profile. In essence, the model continuously tests a large suite of conditions across many assets and then allocates capital to align with the day’s strongest signals, while layering hedges and defensive plays to protect against downside or spikes in volatility. This is not a simple “one indicator, one signal” strategy; it’s a comprehensive, multi-theme framework designed to adapt to changing market regimes.
- What you should know as a layperson: it uses a lot of ETFs (including some leveraged or inverse funds) to implement its ideas, it looks at momentum and price trends rather than just value, and it tries to hedge risk while seeking growth by moving capital among stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and volatility hedges based on many rules that fire on each day’s data.
Diversified cross-asset strategy with volatility hedges: out-of-sample drawdown 12.6% vs SPY 18.8%, beta ~0.5, Calmar 0.59, Sharpe ~0.51. Lower risk, steady diversification and downside protection vs the S&P 500.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.47 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.18 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 471.42% | 14.19% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.87 | |
| 59,528.86% | 62.64% | 5.13% | 7.87% | 2.9 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$5,962,886.35Regulatory Fees
$25,917.41
Total Slippage
$168,540.38
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Sep 12, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, tactical allocation, volatility hedging, momentum/mean-reversion, leveraged/anti-beta etf usage, complex rule tree
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 74 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BOIL
ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
COKE
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Common Stock
Stocks
COST
Costco Wholesale Corp
Stocks
CPER
United States Copper Index Fund
Stocks
DBA
Invesco DB Agriculture Fund
Stocks