Rube Goldberg's Money Shredder
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About
A daily, rule-based tactical strategy that builds a one-asset (often levered) position from a big pool of ETFs, using momentum, RSI/relative strength, and price-versus-SPY checks to adapt to market regimes—riskier, leverage-heavy, and aimed at exploiting regime shifts.
Every day the system scans a large pool of ETFs (broad market, leverage, inverses, bonds, volatility, crypto-related funds, etc.). It runs a long list of rules that check momentum, trends, volatility, and price relationships. Assets that score best under each theme are picked (often a single asset per theme) and given a 100% allocation within that theme. The daily rebalance then resets everything for the next day. The aim is to ride market regimes: go with momentum in up cycles, shift to hedges and defensives in risky times, and mix in volatility plays when signals suggest a sharp move is coming. It uses SPY as a baseline for comparisons and a few assets are chosen based on how hot they are relative to SPY. The result is a dynamic, highly tactical basket that can include familiar names plus many leveraged or specialized ETFs.
Out-of-sample, this regime-adaptive, leverage-friendly strategy targets ~52.5% annualized return vs ~22.5% for the S&P, with a Calmar ~2.49 and Sharpe ~1.32—more upside and disciplined risk, despite higher drawdowns.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.99 | 1.06 | 0.18 | 0.43 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79.98% | 17.18% | -2.02% | -1.16% | 1.04 | |
| 5,558.82% | 197.1% | -10.22% | -6.18% | 2.87 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$565,882.31Regulatory Fees
$5,043.49
Total Slippage
$31,243.93
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Aug 20, 2023
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Quantitative, multi-asset, tactical allocation, leveraged etfs, volatility hedges
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 69 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
ARKG
ARK Genomic Revolution ETF
Stocks
ARKK
ARK Innovation ETF
Stocks
ARKQ
ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF
Stocks
ARKW
ARK Next Generation Internet ETF
Stocks
ARKX
ARK Space & Defense Innovation ETF
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BITI
ProShares Short Bitcoin ETF
Stocks
BITO
ProShares Bitcoin ETF
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks