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About
A daily-rebalanced, multi-asset, momentum-driven portfolio that combines broad market exposure, hedges for volatility, and tactical tilts across bonds, commodities, and currencies using layered RSI/moving-average rules to try to grow while limiting losses.
- The system splits the portolio into blocks (Hedge Block, TMF Momentum, SVXY FTLT, TINA, Shorting SPY, IFF Hedge, etc.). Each block has its own rules for selecting and weighting assets.
- It mostly uses momentum and strength-based tests: compare current price or moving averages to a recent baseline, and check how strong a move is using RSI-like calculations. If the test is true, the block will buy or overweight certain assets; if not, it stays neutral or shifts elsewhere.
- RSI and moving-average tests look at “is this asset in an uptrend or strong rally?” and “is the case for the position robust or weak?” The window sizes (10, 50, 60, 135 days, etc.) are baked in as thresholds to tune sensitivity.
- The strategy frequently uses “top” or “bottom” selections to pick the strongest performers or weakest performers within a group, then assigns weights to those picks (often with a 100% total across a group).
- Hedging blocks deploy volatility-related ETFs (like UVXY, UVXY’s peers VIXY, VIXM, SVXY, UVXY) and bond-like hedges (TLT, TMF, SHV, BND) to reduce drawdown risk when volatility spikes or when a bond/treasury regime is favored. These hedges can become primary if risk signals exceed certain thresholds.
- The approach includes many thematic slices (e.g., TMF Momentum for long Treasuries, TMV Momentum as a parallel risk-controlled treasury tilt, “Holy Grail” style overlays, “BWC” balanced blocks, and energy/commodities blocks) to create a composite, diversified stance intended to perform across regimes.
- The end result is a single portfolio that rebalances daily (or per the system’s cadence) across hundreds of rule-driven positions, with the total weights across blocks summing to the target cash exposure (often normalized to 100%).
Diversified, rule-based momentum across assets with daily rebalancing and hedges. Out-of-sample Sharpe ~0.52 and Calmar ~0.35 indicate meaningful risk-adjusted returns and broad diversification versus the S&P 500.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.04 | 0.2 | 0.02 | 0.14 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 154.42% | 14.94% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.8 | |
| 100,331.13% | 180.3% | -0.33% | 2.79% | 3.76 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$10,043,113.28Regulatory Fees
$38,767.55
Total Slippage
$254,830.20
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Oct 24, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, momentum, hedging, dynamic allocation, risk management, leverage-like exposure
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 125 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AGQ
ProShares Ultra Silver
Stocks
AIA
iShares Asia 50 ETF
Stocks
BGX
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund
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
BWZ
SPDR Bloomberg Short Term International Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks