Simons OOS highly diversified portfolio V2 (OOS > 3 months, size < 20 kB) without (bullshit) frontrunners
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A highly diversified, rule-based rotation strategy that uses momentum and trend signals to pick among a wide set of ETFs (including leveraged and inverse options), with a risk-managed overlay (safety assets, volatility hedges, and futures overlays) and a KMLM futures switch. The system constantly rotates toward the strongest themes while guarding capital.
What it does in plain language:
- The strategy runs many small themes at once, each theme choosing which ETFs to buy or hold based on simple rules.
- A theme’s decision uses signals like “is this ETF stronger than SPY over the last few weeks” (momentum) and “is its price above its recent trend” (trend checks). It also compares recent performance to other ETFs using a basic strength metric called RSI and moving averages.
- If a theme passes its tests, the system puts money into that theme (often loading a full allocation to a single ETF within that theme). If not, it looks at other themes or keeps cash.
- There are many layers to reduce risk: some blocks pick “safer” assets (gold, short-term Treasuries, dollar proxy), some blocks tilt toward lower-volatility or hedged bets (volatility ETFs and inverse/leveraged funds), and some blocks use a “long/short rotation” that tries to pick winners from paired exposures.
- The plan also uses a KMLM futures overlay to shift exposure toward managed futures depending on market conditions.
- The result is a diversified, constantly-shifted mix of equity, volatility, commodity, and fixed income exposures aimed at capturing upside trends while limiting drawdowns.
Out-of-sample, this multi-theme rotation targets big upside: ~51% annualized return vs SPY ~21%, with Calmar ~1.61 and Sharpe ~1.14. Diversified themes and risk overlays aim for stronger growth with disciplined risk control.
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OOS Start Date
Sep 8, 2024
Trading Setting
Threshold 10%
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-strategy, etf-based, momentum, risk-managed, rotation, leveraged/ inverse proxies, volatility, commodity, fixed income
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 74 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AAPB
GraniteShares ETF Trust GraniteShares 2x Long AAPL Daily ETF
Stocks
AAPL
Apple Inc.
Stocks
ABBV
ABBVIE INC.
Stocks
ADBE
Adobe Inc.
Stocks
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
Stocks
AMZN
Amazon.Com Inc
Stocks
AMZU
Direxion Shares ETF Trust Direxion Daily AMZN Bull 2X ETF
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks