Short Volatility
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About
A fast-moving, high-risk strategy that swings between leveraged tech, short-volatility trades, and defensive hedges based on whether the market looks strong, weak, overheated, or washed out.
This strategy checks whether the U.S. stock market looks healthy or weak using SPY, a fund that tracks the S&P 500.
If the market looks healthy, it usually leans hard into leveraged tech and stock funds like TQQQ, UPRO, or TECL. If stocks look too overheated, it temporarily shifts into UVXY, a fund that tends to rise when fear spikes. If stocks look beaten down, it may buy the dip.
If the market looks weak, it becomes more defensive. It may use bearish funds like SQQQ or SPXS, plus gold, Treasury bonds, or BTAL. It also sometimes uses SVXY, which benefits when market fear fades.
In short: it tries to be aggressive in calm uptrends, defensive in downtrends, and quick to react when markets look too hot or too panicky.
Out-of-sample, this strategy targets ~40.6% annualized return vs the S&P 500's ~20.6%, with ~1.0 Sharpe and regime-driven leverage to ride uptrends and hedge spikes. Expect higher drawdowns (~45%) than the S&P 500.
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3M
6M
YTD
1Y
3Y
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.84 | 1.2 | 0.17 | 0.41 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 715.15% | 15.11% | -0.05% | 3.57% | 0.93 | |
| 79,943,088.81% | 148.78% | 0.09% | 12.59% | 2.1 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$7,994,318,880.64Regulatory Fees
$12,967,694.09
Total Slippage
$124,797,656.98
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Dec 20, 2023
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Tactical asset allocation, leveraged etfs, volatility trading, trend following, mean reversion, hedged equity
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 16 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks
SPXS
Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bear 3x ETF
Stocks
SPY
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Stocks
SQQQ
ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ
Stocks
SVXY
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
Stocks
TECL
Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3x ETF
Stocks
TLT
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks