Modern Permanent Portfolio (Public Edition)
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A monthly-rebalanced, multi-sleeve portfolio combining leveraged equity bets when markets trend higher with hedges, plus inflation/deflation hedges and income; core ballast included. It uses moving-average trend signals, volatility sorting, and momentum checks to switch between growth, hedges, and hedged inflation/commodity bets across ETFs.
- The portfolio is rebalanced monthly, splitting capital into several macro sleeves: Growth, Deflation, Income, Inflation, and Core.
- Growth tilts to leveraged stock ETFs (SPXL, TQQQ, UDOW, URTY) when the corresponding market proxy (SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM/URTY group) shows uptrends defined by moving-average-cross rules; if the trend signal isn’t confirmed, it shifts toward BTAL (an anti-beta hedge).
- Each Growth subgroup (SPY, QQQ, DIA, Russell, Emerging, Developed) has a fixed weight (e.g., 15/100) toward the signal-driven levered exposure or hedge.
- Deflation is bond-focused: it first selects the lowest-volatility bond ETFs from a candidate list (BIL, TMF, BNDW, BND, UBT) using a volatility sort (bottom 2 or 3 by standard deviation). It then uses the SPY trend signal (EMA-based cross) to decide whether to carry bonds or switch to equity proxies, aiming to reduce risk in deflationary regimes.
- Income sleeve concentrates on dividend/income ETFs (CEFS, FPEI, DIVO, JEPI) for yield, with a sizable 40/100 allocation.
- Inflation sleeve looks for momentum in specific commodities (Gold GLD; Agriculture DBA; Metals DBB; Oil DBO; Uranium URA). Each commodity option is chosen if its 21-day cumulative return beats the IEF proxy (a short- to intermediate-bond ETF); if not, a safer bond option (IEF) is selected. This creates a dynamic inflation hedge with a momentum filter.
- Core sleeve (10/100) provides ballast with BIL (short-term Treasuries), GLD (gold), and DEFI (Hashdex Bitcoin Futures ETF).
- The net effect is a diversified, rules-based portfolio that attempts to capture upside in up markets, hedge in down or inflation/deflation regimes, and provide income and hedges through a single framework.
Out-of-sample, this strategy delivers higher risk-adjusted returns and tighter drawdowns than the S&P: Sharpe ~1.71 vs 1.30, annualized return ~22.5% vs 20.7%, max drawdown ~12.6% vs 18.8%, plus a strong Calmar edge.
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OOS Start Date
Jul 3, 2023
Trading Setting
Monthly
Type
Stocks
Category
Macro asset allocation, trend-following, etf-based multi-sleeve strategy, leveraged growth and hedging
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 31 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BNDW
Vanguard Total World Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
CEFS
Saba Closed-End Funds ETF
Stocks
DBA
Invesco DB Agriculture Fund
Stocks
DBB
Invesco DB Base Metals Fund
Stocks
DBO
Invesco DB Oil Fund
Stocks
DEFI
Hashdex Commodities Trust
Stocks
DEM
WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund
Stocks