SSO FTLT with Feaver Bear Block
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About
A levered-equity, multi-asset strategy that toggles between aggressive long bets (SSO/QLD) and a robust hedging stack (volatility, bonds, precious metals, and inverse Nasdaq) using momentum and price signals to try for higher upside with controlled risk.
- It’s a rule-based system that blends leveraged long exposure with a broad set of hedges. - Early signals (momentum and overheating indicators) push the portfolio toward hedges (volatility assets, short Nasdaq, bonds) to reduce risk. - When signals show favorable conditions, it tilts into levered equity bets (SSO, QLD) to boost returns. - It uses a cross-asset hedge stack (VIXY, BTAL, EUM, IAU, TLT, AGG, BND, BSV) to diversify risk and stabilize performance. - It rebalances infrequently (small corridor) to limit trading, relying on signal-driven shifts rather than constant churn. - The overall goal is higher upside with lower drawdown than a pure levered equity approach like SSO, achieved by many layers of protection and selective leverage.
What you would actually see in practice:
- In calm markets, you’d see more exposure to levered long ETFs (SSO/QLD) to chase returns.
- In stressed markets, you’d see risk-off assets (VIXY, BTAL, EUM, BND/AGG, TLT) and sometimes inverse Nasdaq positions (SQQQ/PSQ) to dampen losses.
- The strategy uses momentum checks on SPY and QQQ and price-relative checks to decide which mode to be in, with a heavy emphasis on protecting the downside while still allowing upside capture.
Out-of-sample annualized return ~38.1% vs SPY ~18.3%; Sharpe ~1.03 vs ~0.98; Calmar ~1.52. A hedged, levered strategy designed to amplify upside over SPY while using a diversified hedge stack to manage risk.
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OOS Start Date
Dec 28, 2024
Trading Setting
Threshold 5%
Type
Stocks
Category
Dynamic allocation, leveraged equity, volatility hedge, multi-asset risk management
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 16 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond 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
EUM
ProShares Trust Short MSCI Emerging Markets
Stocks
IAU
iShares Gold Trust
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QLD
ProShares Ultra QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks
SH
ProShares Short S&P500
Stocks