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About
A daily, multi-model, regime-aware portfolio that blends momentum, trend, and hedging across stocks, bonds, commodities, and volatility. It uses RSI and moving averages to pick assets and allocate weights, with hedges (UVXY, SVXY, BIL) and leveraged bets (e.g., TQQQ/TECL).
This strategy runs every day and looks at many different market rules at once. It assigns weights to a broad set of ETFs and ETNs (stocks, bonds, gold, oil, and even volatility products). Signals include momentum rules (price vs. recent trends), RSI overbought/oversold checks, and moving-average comparisons. Depending on which signals fire first, it may go long (buy) certain assets, rotate into hedges (like volatility proxies UVXY/VIX ETFs), or park cash in short-term Treasuries (BIL) as a safe buffer. Some parts use leverage to magnify exposure to favored bets (for example, 2x–3x ETF/ETN products). The system is highly modular, with many sub-strategies (e.g., Oil/Volatility, TMV Momentum, TQQQ-focused blocks, energy/defense mixes, and Bear Market protections). Each sub-strategy has its own rules for how much capital it takes and which assets it favors, and the final allocation sums these pieces into a single daily rebalance.
Out-of-sample, this strategy delivers stronger risk-adjusted performance: Sharpe ~1.27 vs SPY ~1.22, lower drawdown (~14% vs ~19%), Calmar ~1.44, and positive alpha with ~20.3% annual return—plus better diversification-driven protection.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.3 | 0.41 | 0.27 | 0.52 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 283.4% | 13.31% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.79 | |
| 3,994.42% | 41.21% | 0.81% | 5.27% | 2.51 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$409,441.75Regulatory Fees
$842.01
Total Slippage
$5,136.10
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Feb 17, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, quantitative, momentum, hedging, leverage
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 79 assets in total
Ticker
Type
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
DBC
Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Stocks
DBO
Invesco DB Oil Fund
Stocks
DIA
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Stocks
DIG
ProShares Ultra Energy
Stocks
DRN
Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X ETF
Stocks