Healthcare - High Beta
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A daily, equal-weighted, healthcare high-beta momentum strategy with a defensive fallback into bonds/sectors when conditions deteriorate; benchmarks against XBI and uses RSI to rank candidates.
What RSI is: a momentum gauge showing how strong recent price moves have been. Higher RSI generally means stronger recent up-moves. In this strategy:
1) The universe includes healthcare stocks and a healthcare bull ETF (CURE).
2) Each day, assets are screened and sorted by a 10-day RSI momentum measure; the top 10 are selected.
3) The biotech benchmark XBI is used as a signal: if XBI’s 20-day return is positive, and other momentum/volatility checks pass, you buy the top healthcare names in equal weights.
4) If XBI’s signals weaken or it becomes overbought (high RSI on a longer window), you shift to a defensive basket: BSV, TLT, LQD, VBF, XLP, UGE, XLU, XLV, SPAB, ANGL, and pick the one with the weakest momentum to hold, again in equal weight.
5) Rebalance is daily. All holdings are equities (including the levered CURE ETF), with risk managed by switching to safe assets when signals indicate risk-off.
Out-of-sample, this healthcare momentum strategy aims ~47% annualized return with Sharpe ~2.47 and beta ~0.44, far above the S&P's ~14% return and ~1.0 Sharpe. High Calmar (~11.5) and daily risk-off shifts offer superior risk-adjusted growth.
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OOS Start Date
Nov 27, 2025
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Healthcare equities, high-beta momentum, biotech, rsi, daily rebalance, tactical asset allocation
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 42 assets in total
Ticker
Type
ABCL
AbCellera Biologics Inc. Common Shares
Stocks
ABSI
Absci Corporation Common Stock
Stocks
ALIT
Alight, Inc.
Stocks
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Stocks
AMGN
Amgen Inc
Stocks
ANGL
VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF
Stocks
ATOM
Atomera Incorporated Common Stock
Stocks
BFLY
Butterfly Network, Inc.
Stocks
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Inc
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks