Commander BND Nest | 4 Trade Days / Year | Garen Mod
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About
A quarterly strategy that uses the bond market as a warning light: when conditions look good it buys aggressive leveraged funds, and when conditions look bad it shifts into defensive or hedging positions based on interest-rate trends.
Every quarter, the strategy first asks a simple question: are broad U.S. bonds doing better than very short-term Treasury bills? If yes, it takes aggressive positions in 4 high-octane funds tied to tech, semiconductors, the S&P 500, financials, or long-term bonds.
If not, it turns defensive. It then checks whether interest rates seem to be rising or falling. In rising-rate periods, it mixes in stronger U.S. dollar exposure plus hedges like funds that benefit from falling stocks or falling bond prices. In falling-rate periods, it shifts toward safer areas like consumer staples, healthcare, short-term Treasuries, gold, and long-term bonds.
To choose among candidates, it uses a recent-movement score (RSI), which is basically a temperature gauge for how overheated or beaten down an investment has been lately.
Out-of-sample annualized return ~37.5% vs SPY ~20.9%; macro regime-switching with a bond signal tilts into levered bets or hedges. Higher upside potential, but larger drawdowns than the S&P.
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YTD
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.05 | 0.23 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 429.33% | 13.89% | -0.05% | 3.57% | 0.85 | |
| 70,787.3% | 66.9% | 2.25% | -0.2% | 1.51 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$7,088,729.98Regulatory Fees
$1,739.41
Total Slippage
$14,737.36
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Oct 5, 2022
Trading Setting
Quarterly
Type
Stocks
Category
Tactical asset allocation, regime switching, bond signal, leveraged etfs, defensive rotation, quarterly rebalancing
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 22 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
FAS
Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x ETF
Stocks
PST
ProShares Trust UltraShort Lehman 7-10 Year Treasury
Stocks
QID
ProShares UltraShort QQQ
Stocks
SDS
ProShares UltraShort S&P500
Stocks
SHY
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
SOXL
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
TBT
ProShares Trust UltraShort Lehman 20+ Year Treasury
Stocks