Long Stock Sort
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About
A daily, long-only basket of five assets selected by the lowest 30-day moving-average price, weighted by inverse recent volatility to control risk.
Here's how it works in plain terms:
- You start with a list of stock market proxies and related funds (for example SPY tracks the S&P 500; QQQ tracks the Nasdaq 100; DIA tracks the Dow; IWM tracks small/mid caps; plus other ETFs like GLD for gold, SLV for silver, and some leverage plays).
- For each asset, you calculate its 30-day moving-average price. This is a smoothed price that helps you see the general price level over the last month.
- Rank all assets by that 30-day average and pick the five with the lowest values (the “bottom five”).
- For these five, measure how volatile they have been over the same 30 days (how much their price bounced around).
- Allocate your money to those five inversely by volatility: the steadier (less price movement) assets get larger shares, the more volatile ones get smaller shares, so the total adds up to 100%.
- Rebalance every trading day to keep these rules in place.
What you actually own is five assets at any time, chosen by this rule-based screen and weighted by how calm they have been recently, with all-cash-on-hand avoided unless there are no signals.
Out-of-sample edge: annualized return ~30% vs S&P ~17.6%, higher risk-adjusted Sharpe ~1.27 vs ~1.00, lower drawdown ~15.1% vs ~18.8%, and Calmar ~2.0. Daily-rebalanced, five-asset inverse-volatility basket.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.23 | 1.6 | 0.65 | 0.81 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 282.33% | 13.47% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.79 | |
| 6,470.49% | 48.33% | -6.5% | 1.14% | 1.29 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$657,049.08Regulatory Fees
$240.90
Total Slippage
$1,165.10
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Sep 20, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Long-only equity, quantitative screening, inverse-volatility weighting, daily rebalance
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 26 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGQ
ProShares Ultra Silver
Stocks
DDM
ProShares Ultra Dow30
Stocks
DIA
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Stocks
GBTC
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF
Stocks
GLD
SPDR Gold Trust, SPDR Gold Shares
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
IWM
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
Stocks
MVV
ProShares Ultra MidCap400
Stocks
QLD
ProShares Ultra QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks