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A daily-rotating, momentum-driven, multi-asset system that rotates among stocks, broad market ETFs, and levered/inverse plays, uses RSI and recent returns to select a small set of assets, and allocates equal weights across them, with variants that avoid K-1 tax issues.
- Start with a broad universe of tickers (stocks, ETFs, and leveraged/inverse instruments).
- For each asset, compute recent performance metrics over several short windows (e.g., 7–56 days) and risk metrics (standard deviation).
- Rank assets by the chosen metrics (moving-average return, cumulative return, or risk). Select top or bottom assets to form candidate pools for each sub-portfolio.
- Apply momentum rules using RSI on selected assets. If RSI on a reference asset (e.g., QQQ, SPY, or TQQQ) crosses a threshold (commonly above 80), introduce hedges like VXX or shift away from overly leveraged bets; otherwise, favor the strongest performers or diversify across the top picks.
- Within each sub-portfolio, allocate capital evenly across the chosen assets (cash-equal weighting).
- Rebalance the holdings every trading day to align with the latest selections.
- Some variants explicitly avoid K-1 generating assets to reduce tax complexity; these “No K-1” versions run the rotation with the same logic but with a different universe or rule ordering to avoid K-1 forms.
- The end result is a diversified, momentum-rotating portfolio that alternates between aggressive leveraged bets, hedges, and core exposures depending on the latest momentum signals and performance screens.
Out-of-sample, this daily multi-asset momentum strategy aims for returns on par with or above the S&P 500, with diversification and hedges to pursue higher upside and better downside control.
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OOS Start Date
Dec 24, 2023
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset rotation, momentum strategy, leveraged/inverse etfs, no-k-1 variants, daily rebalance
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 14 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AAPL
Apple Inc.
Stocks
AMZN
Amazon.Com Inc
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
FNGD
MicroSectors FANG+ Index -3X Inverse Leveraged ETNs due January 8, 2038
Stocks
GOOG
Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
MSFT
Microsoft Corp
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QLD
ProShares Ultra QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks