Min Volatility V9
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About
A rule-based, multi-asset rotation system designed to keep volatility low while pursuing upside. It toggles among leveraged stock bets, hedges, and ballast bonds/gold based on momentum, trend, and volatility signals across a broad ETF universe. Highly complex and regime-driven, not a simple buy-and-hold strategy.
- Purpose: try to grow while keeping risk (volatility) low by rotating among stocks, bonds, commodities, and volatility hedges.
- How decisions are made: a large, tree-like set of rules evaluates many assets using momentum and price/return signals. When a rule is satisfied, it selects one or a few assets to own and assigns weights.
- Signals used:
- Momentum/strength checks (RSI and moving averages): tells whether an asset has recently gained or fallen too fast and whether it’s likely to continue (or reverse).
- Price comparisons to moving averages: whether price is above or below longer-term trends helps decide if the market trend is up or down.
- Return and volatility metrics (cumulative return, standard deviation of returns): rank assets by how much they have gained recently and how much risk they have.
- Windows vary by rule (short-term to multi-year lookbacks like 126, 200, or 252 days).
- How exposure is decided: assets are grouped into themes (Frontrunner/Bullish tech, Dip Buy pullbacks, 200D Cross regime checks, Safety ballast like TMF/TMV, HYG risk guard, etc.). Each group uses a combination of top/bottom selections and filters to pick a small set of assets. Often the decision ends with 100% allocation to a single asset in a branch, or a weighted split across a couple of assets within that branch.
- What gets traded: a mix of popular market ETFs (like SPY, QQQ, XLK, XLE, GLD) and specialized or leveraged hedges (TECL, SOXL, TQQQ, UPRO, SVXY, VIXY, BTAL, SPXU, SQQQ, TMF, TMV, BIL, UUP, etc.).
- How risk is controlled: ballast blocks allocate to defensive assets (bonds, cash-like instruments) and hedges when signals imply rising risk; volatility-related assets (VIXY, SVXY, VIXM) appear as hedges or regime indicators.
- Rebalancing: the plan uses a small rebalance corridor (0.05) and indicates rebalance is not automatic, implying allocations may adjust only when rules dictate or when signals cross thresholds.
- Overall idea: a dense, multi-factor, rule-based system that aims to be defensively positioned during stress and aggressively positioned during favorable trends, while using a wide net of assets to diversify risk and attempt smoother performance relative to a plain stock-only approach.
Automated multi-asset rotation aims for smoother gains and lower market risk. With beta ~0.43 and drawdowns near SPY, plus ballast hedges, it offers steadier risk-adjusted growth and better downturn protection versus the S&P 500.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.72 | 0.28 | 0.07 | 0.27 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 299.66% | 14.15% | -2.02% | -1.16% | 0.83 | |
| 238,261.99% | 110.19% | -1.65% | 5.46% | 4.16 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$23,836,198.53Regulatory Fees
$90,185.64
Total Slippage
$609,242.50
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
May 5, 2024
Trading Setting
Threshold 5%
Type
Stocks
Category
Quantitative, tactical asset allocation, volatility management, multi-asset, leveraged etfs
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 68 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AAPL
Apple Inc.
Stocks
ADBE
Adobe Inc.
Stocks
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
Stocks
AMZN
Amazon.Com Inc
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BRK/B
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY Class B
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
COST
Costco Wholesale Corp
Stocks