Sandy's Golden Dragon V4.1
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About
A dynamic, rules-based, multi-asset ETF portfolio blending volatility hedges, momentum/trend signals, commodities, cash substitutes, and leveraged growth bets to perform in both up and down markets. Uses regime-aware tilts and modular sub-symphonies for flexibility and risk management.
What it does in plain language:
- It tries to adapt to market conditions, not just follow a single bet.
- It splits into five broad groups: Long Volatility (hedges), Advanced Volatility Hedge, Trend and Momentum (with a focus on commodities), Fiat Alternatives (gold, dollar exposure, cash substitutes), and Secular Growth Assets (growth-oriented bets).
- Within each group, it uses a rules-based engine to pick specific ETFs and decide how much to hold. It often looks at how much something has moved recently (momentum), how strong the trend is, and how risky the market has been lately (drawdowns and volatility).
- It tends to tilt toward hedges when signals suggest risk is rising (e.g., more volatility or weak market breadth) and tilt toward growth plays when signals suggest a healthy bull market.
- It uses leveraged ETFs in several places to magnify moves when the signals look strong, and it includes hedging rules to try to limit large losses if the market turns.
- It does not rely on a single “buy and hold” ETF; instead, it combines many ETFs to create a more regime-aware exposure that can shift with conditions.
- Important caveats: leveraging raises risk, complexity makes understanding and monitoring essential, and ETFs come with costs and liquidity considerations. Examples of ETFs used include UVXY (short-term volatility), TMF (levered treasury), UPRO/QQQ/SOXL/TECL (levered growth bets), GLD (gold), UUP (dollar exposure), SHY (short bonds), DBC (commodities), SPY/QQQ/SPY-related families (broad equities). The engine uses thresholds like moving averages, relative strength, and cumulative returns over fixed windows to decide who to own and how much. The overall aim is to offer exposure to growth when conditions are favorable while maintaining protection during stressful times, through a layered, rules-based approach rather than a fixed mix.
This strategy's out-of-sample edge delivers higher risk-adjusted returns than the S&P 500: annualized return ~24.38% vs 22.46%; Sharpe ~1.71 vs 1.41; max drawdown ~12.50% vs 18.76%; Calmar ~1.95. Regime-aware, multi-asset hedges.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.26 | 0.39 | 0.27 | 0.52 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 355.73% | 13.22% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.81 | |
| 4,131.6% | 35.88% | 1.36% | 5.81% | 2.44 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$423,160.36Regulatory Fees
$1,362.39
Total Slippage
$8,253.00
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Apr 7, 2023
Trading Setting
Threshold 2%
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, tactical, volatility hedging, leveraged etfs, momentum, trend, commodity, fx, fixed income
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 37 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
DBC
Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Stocks
FAS
Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x ETF
Stocks
GLD
SPDR Gold Trust, SPDR Gold Shares
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks