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A daily-rebalanced, rules-based mix of a cash-like safety sleeve (ultra-short bonds and T-bills) with a highly adaptive, leveraged-equity/volatility engine that rotates among a broad ETF universe to chase returns while aiming to limit drawdowns.
Two parts drive the strategy:
- Cash sleeve (safety base): about 84% of capital sits in ultra-short/short-term bonds and T-bills (GSY, PULS, BIL) to reduce risk and keep liquidity.
- Equities/volatility engine: the remaining portion is allocated across a wide set of stock-related ETFs, including broad market, sectors, and leveraged plays. A large web of rules checks recent performance and price signals (think “is this asset recently stronger than others?”, “has this asset shown a favorable trend recently?”) and then adjusts weights daily. If conditions favor risk-taking, more capital flows into leveraged/upper-beta ETFs; if conditions deteriorate or volatility spikes, the system shifts toward hedges or cash. There are special blocks that focus on volatility (UVXY), hedging (TLT, SHV, GLD), and aggressive tech/biotech plays (SOXL, TECL, LABU, QLD-related rotations). The whole system is designed to tilt toward whichever baskets show strength now, while keeping a floor in safer assets. Rebalancing happens every day, so weights can change quite a bit from one day to the next. Important: because it uses leverage and many moving parts, it can be very volatile and is not suitable for all investors. Tickers are ETF symbols; examples include GSY, PULS, BIL (cash-like baseline), UVXY (volatility-based), SPY/QQQ (broad market), GLD (gold), SHV (short Treasuries), TL T (long Treasuries), and various leveraged ETFs like SOXL, TECL, LABU, TQQQ, SPXL, etc.
Out-of-sample edge: Sharpe 3.50 vs SPY 2.32; max drawdown 0.74% vs 5.07%; Calmar 7.56. A cash sleeve plus an adaptive leveraged equity/volatility engine targets steadier, risk-adjusted gains while limiting downside vs SPY.
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OOS Start Date
May 15, 2025
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Cash+risk-managed, multi-strategy, momentum+mean-reversion, leveraged etfs, volatility hedging, daily-rebalanced
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 62 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AAPL
Apple Inc.
Stocks
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AMZN
Amazon.Com Inc
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
COKE
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Common Stock
Stocks
COST
Costco Wholesale Corp
Stocks
CURE
Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
EEM
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Stocks
ERX
Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X ETF
Stocks
EUM
ProShares Trust Short MSCI Emerging Markets
Stocks