Tangency 18 + Volatility Frontrunners
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About
A daily-rebalanced, rule-driven, multi-asset strategy aimed at a tangency-like risk/return mix. It shifts between broad stock exposure and volatility/hedge segments based on momentum and volatility signals across many ETFs, including leveraged and inverse vehicles for aggressive upside and downside protection.
- It is daily-rebalanced and spreads capital across many asset groups (stocks, international stocks, bonds, commodities, gold, oil, currencies) and a set of hedges.
- Each group contains sub-blocks with rules that look at recent price behavior, momentum, and trend signals of different ETFs. Example signals include moving-average checks, momentum scores derived from recent price changes, and ratios like RSI (a momentum gauge).
- The system uses a lot of ETF tickers (for example SPY, QQQ, SCHX, XLP, XLK, etc.) along with volatility hedges (UVXY, VIXY) and safety/alternative layers (BTAL, EUM). It may also employ leveraged or inverse ETFs (TQQQ, UPRO, VIXY, UVXY) to tilt bets toward higher potential upside or hedged protection.
- Based on the outcomes of these layered rules, weights are assigned to groups and sub-groups. Some blocks push heavier exposure to U.S. equities when signals are strong; other blocks pivot toward hedging (volatility, inverse-volatility) and safer fixed-income exposures when signals indicate risk is rising.
- The architecture includes many named blocks like “VIX Blend,” “Smooth Safety,” “Step Up,” “Mean Reversion,” and “Alt Blocks,” each contributing specific risk/return ideas and hedging considerations to the final composition.
- The strategy aims to approximate a tangency portfolio (maximizing return for a given risk profile) but with aggressive, data-driven regime shifts and volatility controls. It assumes access to diverse data inputs and transaction capability to implement frequent, multi-asset reallocations. It’s not a simple buy-and-hold plan; it’s a high-activity, regime-driven allocation that adapts to market conditions while seeking to manage drawdowns via hedges and volatility proxies.,
- A note on risk: because it includes leverage and broad inter-asset voting rules, risk can be higher than a traditional diversified equity portfolio, and costs can be non-trivial due to frequent rebalancing and derivative usage.
Out-of-sample Sharpe ~1.02 vs SPY ~0.91, drawdown ~8.35% vs ~18.76%, and a dynamic, multi-asset, volatility-aware allocation that hedges risk and shifts regimes—delivering stronger risk-adjusted efficiency than the S&P 500.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.06 | 0.24 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 579.22% | 14.47% | -2.02% | -1.16% | 0.9 | |
| 80,094.78% | 60.28% | -0.09% | 0.4% | 2.72 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$8,019,477.74Regulatory Fees
$23,456.03
Total Slippage
$147,994.14
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Oct 14, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, tactical momentum, volatility hedging, dynamic allocation, leveraged/inverse tools
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 98 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Stocks
AIA
iShares Asia 50 ETF
Stocks
BGX
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund
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
BWZ
SPDR Bloomberg Short Term International Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
COKE
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Common Stock
Stocks