Feaver's FTLT V7 08/15/2012
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About
A highly multi-faceted, rule-based, daily-rebalanced strategy that blends leveraged equity exposures with volatility hedges and mean-reversion bets to chase upside while protecting against spikes in risk.
- It divides your money into many small bets (blocks) across different ETFs. Some blocks tilt toward stocks (including leveraged versions like QQQ-related and SPY-related funds), others hedge with volatility or anti-beta funds, and others look for mean-reversion opportunities.
- Signals come from simple indicators that compare price to recent trends and momentum over several time frames. Examples include how strong a price move is compared with recent history, or whether a stock/ETFs price has recently risen or fallen more than a threshold.
- The system looks at several lookback periods (days or weeks) to confirm a signal before it adds or removes exposure. This is intended to avoid reacting to a single day’s move.
- It uses hedges to protect the portfolio when risk spikes (for example, volatility-related funds that rise when fear increases) and uses “bear” or short-like positions to dampen drawdowns.
- It also uses checks that compare groups of assets against each other (e.g., which sector or factor is strongest) and then allocates more weight to those that pass the tests.
- Finally, the system rebalance frequency is set to daily, with explicit weights and asset choices that influence how much capital sits in each ticker.
In short: the strategy tries to ride positive momentum in equities and sectors, while systematically layering in hedges and risk controls to guard against sharp drops.
Out-of-sample, this strategy delivers higher risk-adjusted returns than the S&P: Sharpe ~1.20 vs ~1.0, positive alpha, Calmar ~2.14, and ~60.8% annualized return, driven by leveraged exposures with hedges. Higher upside with built-in risk controls.
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OOS Start Date
Sep 24, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, hedged momentum, mean reversion, volatility hedges
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 57 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AGQ
ProShares Ultra Silver
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
COKE
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Common Stock
Stocks
COST
Costco Wholesale Corp
Stocks
DBC
Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Stocks
DOG
ProShares Short Dow30
Stocks