Kearsarge - 13% Threshold + v4 Pops + v1.2.1 USDU Commodities
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About
A diversified, rule-based ETF portfolio that rotates among commodities, broad equities, bonds, and hedges using momentum and risk screens; it emphasizes hedging to limit losses in downturns while aiming to capture upside with selective, high-momentum blocks.
- It splits capital into several blocks: Commodities, Broad Market, and multiple hedge/defensive groups. Each block contains candidate assets (ETFs) with explicit weights.
- Within each block, it applies signals (momentum and risk measures) to decide whether to include an asset and how much to allocate. Examples of signals include moving-average and momentum checks, standard deviation/drawdown screens, and relative strength comparisons across different time windows.
- The Commodities block uses a momentum/ranking screen to tilt toward a dollar-hedged commodity approach when momentum lines up (and also to select a small group of gold or dollar-related assets in some paths).
- The Broad Market block uses short, medium, and long-horizon momentum and volatility filters to decide exposure to volatility-related ETFs (UVXY, VIXM, SVXY) and to main equity exposures with large-cap or tech tilt (e.g., high-growth/tech proxies) depending on signals.
- “Pops” blocks implement a rotating, top-performing subset of ETFs based on momentum or risk-adjusted returns, selecting a few assets per window and assigning them weights that can be quite large (e.g., 85% of the block) while leaving room for diversification.
- Hedge and defensive blocks (Anti-Beta, Safety Haven) allocate to low-beta or negatively correlated assets (BTAL, VIX-related ETFs, GLD, XLP, etc.) to reduce drawdowns during stress.
- Bonds are included (BND, BSV, BNDX, PULS, BLV, BOXX) with rules that combine moving-average and exponential-weighted returns to approximate a diversified fixed-income sleeve.
- Rebalancing follows corridor-width and basket-level signals to avoid excessive turnover while keeping the target mix aligned with regime expectations.
- All of this is implemented with a wide set of window days (10, 14, 30, 60, 126, 200, 252) to capture different horizons, and with varied comparison operators (greater-than, less-than) to orient assets toward uptrends, downtrends, or mean-reversion opportunities.
- The strategy expresses backtest labels (e.g., “Kearsarge” variants) and performance diagnoses (drawdown estimates) for different flavor paths, suggesting a family of logically similar models tuned for different risk appetites. Overall, the plan aims to be resilient across regimes by combining momentum-driven rotations with hedges and defensive ballast, all implemented with ETF liquidity to ease practical execution.
Out-of-sample, this strategy offers stronger risk-adjusted returns than the S&P 500: Sharpe ≈1.95 vs 1.44, drawdown ≈6.6% vs 18.8%, Calmar ≈2.89. A momentum-led, hedged multi-asset rotation aims for upside with disciplined downside protection.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.05 | 0.23 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85.27% | 21.26% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 1.35 | |
| 82.59% | 20.71% | 1.74% | 4.78% | 2.14 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$18,259.22Regulatory Fees
$49.24
Total Slippage
$291.25
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OOS Start Date
May 13, 2023
Trading Setting
Threshold 13%
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, momentum-rotational, hedged, etf-based, risk-controlled
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 50 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BLV
Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BNDX
Vanguard Total International Bond ETF
Stocks
BOXX
Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF
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
DBMF
iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF
Stocks
ERX
Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X ETF
Stocks