BE's 8th Opus l Double Dippy + Commodities l May 8th 2019
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About
A very aggressive daily trading system that rotates between leveraged stock bets, volatility hedges, and macro assets like commodities, bonds, gold, dollar funds, and managed futures, with emergency exits during market stress.
This strategy checks the market every day and shifts money among three buckets: turbocharged stock funds, volatility hedges, and macro diversifiers like commodities, gold, bonds, the U.S. dollar, and managed futures.
If markets look panicky, it can hide in very short-term government bonds. If stocks look too hot, it often buys a volatility hedge; if they look washed out, it buys stock funds. It also compares longer-term winners—stocks vs commodities vs bonds vs dollar—to decide where to lean.
Out-of-sample, this strategy targets ~31.9% annualized return with Sharpe ~1.32 and Calmar ~1.33, beating the S&P 500's ~20% return and ~1.30 Sharpe. It offers higher upside with structured crash protection and disciplined risk controls.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.42 | 0.73 | 0.34 | 0.59 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202.86% | 16.25% | -0.05% | 3.57% | 0.87 | |
| 4,325.88% | 67.34% | -1.01% | 12.32% | 2.26 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$442,587.55Regulatory Fees
$1,343.45
Total Slippage
$9,728.22
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Nov 16, 2022
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Tactical asset allocation, leveraged etfs, volatility trading, commodities, macro rotation, hedged equity
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 26 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
CURE
Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
DBC
Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Stocks
DBMF
iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF
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
SHY
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
SMH
VanEck Semiconductor ETF
Stocks