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About
Daily tactical strategy that toggles between volatility hedges, defensive shorts, and contrarian bets in high‑beta ETFs. It reacts to steep Nasdaq drops and pops, checks S&P choppiness, and uses a simple bonds‑vs‑tech strength gauge to choose baskets.
It rebalances daily.
1) If a 3× Nasdaq fund (TQQQ) crashed over ~1 week but then jumps in a day, it buys volatility (VIXY ~25%) and spreads the rest across defensive/short funds (inverse stocks, dollar, bonds).
2) Else, if the S&P 500’s swings have been unusually large, it holds the two calmest picks from bond/volatility funds.
3) Else, it compares bonds vs tech with a simple hot/cold score (RSI = balance of recent up vs down days). If bonds look stronger, it buys recent losers among bullish high‑beta ETFs; if tech looks stronger, it buys recent losers among bearish ETFs.
Out-of-sample annualized return ~62% vs SPY ~25% (Calmar ~1.33). Regime-switching among volatility hedges/defensives targets big upside in extreme moves; but max drawdown ~47% and beta ~1.27—higher risk than SPY.
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3M
6M
YTD
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3Y
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.31 | 0.11 | 0 | 0.04 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 138% | 14.71% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.78 | |
| 135,195.16% | 213.08% | 0.81% | 29.26% | 2.16 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$13,529,515.74Regulatory Fees
$69,720.80
Total Slippage
$469,395.39
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Oct 9, 2023
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Tactical rotation, regime switching, mean reversion, leveraged/inverse etfs, volatility (vix), us equities, treasuries, us dollar, high beta themes
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 33 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
DRV
Direxion Daily Real Estate Bear 3X ETF
Stocks
EDC
Direxion Daily MSCI Emerging Markets Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
HIBL
Direxion Daily S&P 500 High Beta Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
LABD
Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bear 3X ETF
Stocks
LABU
Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QID
ProShares UltraShort QQQ
Stocks