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Steadfast Portfolio V3
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About

A highly diversified, rules-based, daily-rebalanced multi-asset strategy that uses momentum and mean-reversion signals across stocks, bonds, commodities, and hedges to seek growth while controlling risk. It’s complex and unfolds through many nested rules and ETF selections (e.g., SPY, QQQ, SHV, UVXY, GLD, DBC, TLT, TMF, XLE, XLK, XLP, etc.), with hedging via inverse/volatility ETFs and a cash-allocation framework across blocks. Suited for sophisticated investors who can tolerate daily turnover and rigorous testing.
NutHow it works
What it tries to do in plain English: - It divides a big pool of investing ideas into several buckets (stocks, bonds, commodities, energy, gold, and hedged or inverse ideas). - Each bucket holds a set of ETFs that stand in for that kind of asset (for example SPY or QQQ for broad stocks, TLT or TMF for longer-term bonds, GLD for gold, DBC for broad commodities, UVXY for volatility hedges, and SH/PSQ for hedged or inverse stock exposures). - Every day, it asks a long series of questions (rules) to decide which ETFs to own within each bucket. The questions are signals about momentum and trend: • Is the asset’s price recently going up strongly (momentum)? • Is it overbought or oversold (a simple RSI idea, which gives a gauge of how hot or tired a move is)? • How has it performed over different time windows (short, medium, long)? • Is there evidence that the asset is likely to revert toward a typical level (mean-reversion)? - If the signals look favorable, that bucket gets funded with its share of the total cash; if signals look risky, the strategy may hedge or reduce exposure using inverse or volatility-related ETFs (for example PSQ, SH, UVXY, SVXY). - Weights are assigned at multiple levels, with some blocks aiming for equal cash allocation while others tilt toward the strongest signals. The approach is highly systematic and rule-based, not speculative guesswork. It’s designed to ride rallies while trying to protect against sharp downturns, using a broad mix of equities, fixed income, commodities, and hedges. Important note: RSI and moving-average concepts are used as inputs, but the exact thresholds and nested decisions are very intricate, meaning the system rewards disciplined testing and regime awareness rather than casual adjustments.
CheckmarkValue prop
Out-of-sample: risk-adjusted edge vs S&P. Sharpe ~1.31 vs ~1.11; return ~20.07% vs ~19.82%; max drawdown ~8.7% vs ~18.8%; Beta ~0.60; Calmar ~2.30—steady gains with downside protection.
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3M
6M
YTD
1Y
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Max
Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
AlphaBetaR2R
0.370.260.130.36
Performance Metrics
Cumulative ReturnAnnualized ReturnTrailing 1M ReturnTrailing 3M ReturnSharpe Ratio
520.53%14.71%-1.77%0.2%0.9
20,586.81%49.33%-0.82%3.37%3.42
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$2,068,680.80
Regulatory Fees
$7,225.53
Total Slippage
$46,890.68
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Sep 4, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, quantitative, momentum, hedged, dynamic allocation
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 72 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BOIL
ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
COKE
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Common Stock
Stocks
CORP
PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund
Stocks
COST
Costco Wholesale Corp
Stocks
CPER
United States Copper Index Fund
Stocks

FAQ

A Composer symphony is an automated trading strategy that executes trades based on parameters of your choice. Some symphonies are similar to holding one ETF in normal conditions and rotating to a different ETF when market conditions shift, for example a 5% drop in the S&P 500, while others use complex rules with dozens of triggers. However, complex doesn’t always mean better. A simple, well-structured symphony can be just as effective as an intricate one. Learn more about how symphonies work here.

"Steadfast Portfolio V3" is currently performing the same as yesterday today. Performance updates in real time during market hours.

"Steadfast Portfolio V3" is currently allocated toXME, FCG, PGR, KOLD, EEM, BSV, TMF, XOP, DBA, QQQ, COKE, NVO, UUP, DBC, GE, SHY, DBO, BTAL, TQQQ, LLY, SHV, XLE, SH, GLD, TLT, BIL, COST, XLP, BNDandPSQ. Holdings automatically adjust as market conditions change based on the strategy's rules.

Year-to-date, "Steadfast Portfolio V3" has returned 19.69%. You can adjust the performance chart above to view returns across different time horizons.

The maximum drawdown for "Steadfast Portfolio V3" is 8.73%. The maximum drawdown measures the largest peak-to-trough decline. It's an important metric to evaluate risk and the strategy's behavior during market stress.

To invest in "Steadfast Portfolio V3", simply click the Invest button on this page. You'll need to open an account with Composer if you don't have one yet, then you can start investing. Composer will automatically execute the trades for you based on the strategy's rules. Composer also supports trading individual stocks, ETFs, and options.