Sandy's Golden Dragon V4.6a (vol hedge? + beta hedge 2.0)
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About
A rules‑driven “Dragon Portfolio” style mix that splits across growth, bonds, gold/commodities/USD, and crash insurance. It dials up leveraged tech in strong uptrends and shifts to Treasuries, gold, USD, defensives, or VIX‑linked hedges when conditions worsen.
Your money is split into five buckets: crash insurance, trend followers, a gold/commodities/U.S. dollar sleeve, a growth‑stocks sleeve, and rate‑driven Treasury trades.
The rules watch three things: trend (up/down), short‑term “heat” (too hot/too cold), and whether rates are rising or falling.
In calm uptrends it leans into aggressive stock funds (often leveraged tech/semis). When stress appears or rates rise, it shifts to Treasuries (sometimes inverse/leveraged), gold, the U.S. dollar, defensive sectors, or volatility funds that tend to jump when markets drop.
It changes positions when signals flip (no set calendar rebalance).
Out-of-sample, the Dragon strategy beats the S&P 500 on risk: oos return 30.6% vs 22.4%, max DD 13.8% vs 18.8%, Sharpe 1.72 vs 1.41, Calmar 2.22, beta ~0.85.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 0.44 | 0.28 | 0.53 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 362.46% | 13.64% | 2.19% | 5.01% | 0.83 | |
| 7,656.5% | 43.81% | 1.9% | 2.93% | 2.6 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$775,650.39Regulatory Fees
$1,906.04
Total Slippage
$11,646.33
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Apr 10, 2023
Trading Setting
Threshold 2%
Type
Stocks
Category
Risk-parity, long volatility, trend following, tactical allocation, leveraged etfs, hedging, bonds, commodities, gold, usd, equities
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 43 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 Shares
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