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A daily-rebalanced, multi-asset, momentum-driven strategy that uses a Shartino Score to allocate across many ETFs (stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, volatility) and hedges to ride trends while limiting drawdowns. It blends growth, safety, and regime-hedging across diverse asset classes.
NutHow it works
- The strategy is built around a central Shartino Score that assigns weights to groups of assets. - It rebalance daily, recalculating which assets meet its rules and how strongly to weight them. - The portfolio is composed of many groups (for example, US stocks, bonds of various maturities, commodities, energy, gold, oil, currencies, and volatility hedges). - Within each group, a set of simple rules picks specific tickers (ETFs like SPY, QQQ, TLT, GLD, UUP, UCO, etc.) and decides whether to hold them and with what weight. Rules often involve: price relative to moving averages (is the price above/below a moving average?), momentum indicators (how strong the recent move is), and simple comparisons (is one asset more powerful than another over a window of days). - Some groups are designed as hedges or protections (Bear Market/Sideways Protection, Short SPY, Volatility group using UVXY/SVXY). These look for signs that markets may be weak and shift into hedges or lower-risk positions. - The weights are expressed as percentages of a 100% portfolio and are allocated across groups and then within groups to individual assets. - The approach uses a mix of long-only bets and strategic short/hedged exposures to attempt to profit in rising markets and limit losses in down markets. - The asset universe is broad, including widely known funds (SPY, QQQ, GLD, SLV, XLE, XLP, etc.) and less familiar ones (oil funds like UCO, energy ETFs like TAN, or volatility funds like UVXY). The intent is to capture diverse trends across stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and volatility regimes, rather than betting on a single market.
CheckmarkValue prop
Out-of-sample edge: Sharpe ~1.80 vs S&P ~1.25; Calmar ~2.25; max drawdown ~7.2% vs ~18.8%. A diversified, daily-rebalanced momentum strategy with hedges across assets, aiming for stronger risk-adjusted returns and better downside protection.

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OOS Start Date
May 3, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, momentum-based, regime-rotating, hedged, diversified across equities, bonds, commodities, currencies, volatility
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 46 assets in total
Ticker
Type
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
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
CPER
United States Copper Index Fund
Stocks
DBA
Invesco DB Agriculture Fund
Stocks
DBC
Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Stocks
DBO
Invesco DB Oil Fund
Stocks
FAN
First Trust Global Wind Energy ETF
Stocks
FCG
First Trust Natural Gas ETF
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.

The symphony is currently performing the same as yesterday today. Performance updates in real time during market hours.

The symphony is currently allocated toXME, FCG, IEF, KOLD, XOP, DBA, QQQ, UUP, DBC, SHY, SPY, DBO, BTAL, SHV, XLE, SH, GLD, XLPandBND. Holdings automatically adjust as market conditions change based on the strategy's rules.

Year-to-date, the symphony has returned 15.61%. You can adjust the performance chart above to view returns across different time horizons.

The maximum drawdown for the symphony is 7.22%. 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 the symphony, 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.