Hold My Cash #1
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About
A cash-first, multi-asset, daily-rebalanced tactical rotation using momentum and mean-reversion signals across stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, gold, and volatility hedges to rotate between ETFs with a bias toward cash and hedges in risk-off regimes.
- The system is set to rebalance daily. It starts with substantial cash exposure and then evaluates dozens of signals across many asset sleeves.
- Signals are typically based on price relative to moving averages, momentum, and other derived metrics like RSI (relative strength), cumulative returns, and price comparisons to long-run benchmarks.
- Each sleeve (e.g., U.S. equities, bonds, gold, commodities, USD, volatility) has its own rules for when to buy, hold, or hedge. Some rules favor equal cash weighting across the chosen assets; others assign explicit weights (e.g., 60/40 split) to specific assets within a sleeve.
- The strategy uses both trend-following and mean-reversion ideas: you may see signals that say “buy if price is above a long-term average and momentum is strong” or “sell if momentum is weak and price reverts toward a long-run mean.”
- There are explicit hedging and risk-off modules that tilt away from equities and toward Treasuries, USD, or gold when conditions resemble stress or bear-market regimes (e.g., 2008-like patterns).
- The asset universe includes broad stock ETFs (SPY, QQQ, XLK, XLP, etc.), bonds across maturities (TLT, IEF, SHY, SHV, BND, IEI, etc.), commodity/composition ETFs (DBC, GLD, GDX, USO, DBA, etc.), currencies (UUP), and volatility hedges (UVXY, SVXY, PSQ, QID, SQQQ, etc.).
- The system is designed to backtest across many themes (e.g., gold mean reversion, TLT macro momentum, commodity momentum, etc.) and then apply the strongest signals to allocate capital. This leads to a dynamic, regime-aware portfolio rather than a single static allocation.
Cash-first, daily-rebalanced multi-asset rotation. Out-of-sample: ~35.6% annual return, Sharpe ~2.07, Calmar ~12.4, max drawdown ~2.87%, far lower risk than S&P's ~6.33% drawdown. Dynamic hedges and diversification beat the market on risk-adjusted terms.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.36 | 0.25 | 0.14 | 0.38 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 378.04% | 13.47% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.82 | |
| 11,880.06% | 47.17% | 3.66% | 11.32% | 3.48 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$1,198,005.62Regulatory Fees
$2,776.38
Total Slippage
$17,336.31
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Apr 4, 2025
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, tactical rotation, trend following, risk hedging
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 103 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AIA
iShares Asia 50 ETF
Stocks
BGX
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund
Stocks
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
BOND
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund
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