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About

A signal-driven, multi-asset, daily-rebalanced strategy that blends aggressive growth bets (often using leveraged tech ETFs) with hedges and diversifiers (bonds, gold, volatility proxies, cash) to capture upside while limiting risk.
NutHow it works
- The system is built from many blocks (modules). The core block (Primary Collection) aims for aggressive, growth-oriented exposure, often using leveraged tech ETFs (like 3x tech or biotech) when conditions look favorable. - Other blocks act as hedges or defensive diversifications, pulling in bonds, cash proxies, gold, or volatility-linked funds, depending on signals. - Signals come from simple price-based tests you’d recognize without being a professional: momentum checks (is price higher now than a recent average?), trend strength (is a market ETF above/below a moving average?), and volatility stress (is VIX high or low?). RSI (a momentum indicator) is used to identify extreme conditions: very high RSI can tilt toward hedges or cash, very low RSI can tilt toward risk-on bets. - The strategy looks at multiple assets, not just one ticker. It uses both popular names (SPY, QQQ, GLD, TLT) and less-known ETFs (like VIXY, UVXY, BIL, GDX, UUP) to create a diversified mosaic. - Positions are sized with explicit weights that sum to 100. Some blocks are heavily weighted (e.g., 100% in a given sub-idea), while others are smaller to achieve diversification. - Rebalancing happens daily, allowing the model to react to new signals and adjust leverage, hedges, and asset mix as conditions change. - The design favors scaling into or out of risk; it may tilt aggressively toward leveraged long exposures in favorable regimes, but it maintains hedges and cash-equivalents to limit drawdowns. - In short, it’s a big, layered decision tree that combines many small bets across classes and strategies, continually updated with current market data to produce a blended, risk-managed stance rather than a single-direction bet.
CheckmarkValue prop
Diversified, risk-managed growth via daily tactical rotation across stocks, bonds, gold and volatility hedges. Out-of-sample Calmar ~4.8 with ~6% max drawdown—strong risk-adjusted upside and resilience beyond a single-market SPY bet.
1M
3M
6M
YTD
1Y
3Y
Max
Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
AlphaBetaR2R
0.690.360.080.28
Performance Metrics
Cumulative ReturnAnnualized ReturnTrailing 1M ReturnTrailing 3M ReturnSharpe Ratio
597.07%14.51%-1.77%0.2%0.89
3,000,277.11%105.29%-4.55%1.03%3.4
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$300,037,711.37
Regulatory Fees
$842,274.92
Total Slippage
$5,992,345.78
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
May 9, 2025
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-strategy, dynamic allocation, tactical rotation, leveraged etfs, volatility hedging, cross-asset, risk management
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 91 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
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks

FAQ

A Composer symphony is an automated trading strategy that executes trades based on parameters of your choice. Some symphonies are similar to holding one ETF in normal conditions and rotating to a different ETF when market conditions shift, for example a 5% drop in the S&P 500, while others use complex rules with dozens of triggers. However, complex doesn’t always mean better. A simple, well-structured symphony can be just as effective as an intricate one. Learn more about how symphonies work here.

The symphony is currently performing the same as yesterday today. Performance updates in real time during market hours.

The symphony is currently allocated toGOOGL, DRV, TECS, EEM, QQQ, NVO, GDX, NVDA, GE, UGE, BTAL, LLY, XLE, EDC, AMZN, GLD, TLT, XLK, BIL, SQQQ, COST, XLP, BNDandPSQ. Holdings automatically adjust as market conditions change based on the strategy's rules.

Year-to-date, the symphony has returned 24.28%. You can adjust the performance chart above to view returns across different time horizons.

The maximum drawdown for the symphony is 7.96%. The maximum drawdown measures the largest peak-to-trough decline. It's an important metric to evaluate risk and the strategy's behavior during market stress.

To invest in the symphony, simply click the Invest button on this page. You'll need to open an account with Composer if you don't have one yet, then you can start investing. Composer will automatically execute the trades for you based on the strategy's rules. Composer also supports trading individual stocks, ETFs, and options.