The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Lex Luger Remix
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About
A daily regime-switching rotation that moves between leveraged tech/broad-market bets and hedges/cash, guided by simple price/ trend signals. It aims to ride uptrends with aggressive ETFs (e.g., TQQQ, SOXL, TECL) in bull markets, while shifting to hedges and cash-like assets in bear or choppy markets, with built-in dip-buy and deleveraging logic for risk control.
- Every day, the system runs a decision tree that decides which market regime (bull, bear, or sideways) applies.
- If it detects a Bull Market, it shifts toward aggressive, leveraged growth ETFs (examples include TQQQ, SOXL, TECL, UPRO, and similar high-mowe ETFs) and replaces or shades away from pure volatility bets like UVXY. It selects the top performers by recent momentum (using moving-average-return screens) and weights the top assets more heavily (with a typical split like two-thirds to the best ideas and one-third to a secondary idea).
- If it detects a Bear Market, it moves toward protective or lighter exposures, including inverse or defensive assets and cash-like hedges. It also considers defensive pairings (for example PSQ and other bearish/neutral instruments) and uses risk-reducing allocations.
- If the market is Sideways/Deleverage, the system trims leverage, emphasizes hedges (Volatility-related proxies, short-duration Treasuries, and low-volatility or market-neutral components), and checks moving-average relationships to decide if/when to re-allocate.
- There are dedicated sub-strategies (Bull Market Strategy, Bear Market Strategy, Dip Buy Strategy, Sideways Market Deleverage, and related variants like UVXY Replacement) that are activated by signals such as price relative to moving averages, momentum thresholds, and recent performance ranks.
- The strategy also uses cash-conserving steps (wt-cash-equal) to ensure that cash is allocated in a controlled way when no strong signal exists.
- It is designed to be self-contained, uses widely traded ETFs (and some niche/less-common vehicles) to express its bets, and rebalances daily to stay aligned with current signals.
- The intent is to blend upside capture in strong trends (via leveraged tech/broad-market exposures) with risk controls and hedges in weaker regimes, using a rule-based, transparent framework rather than discretionary trading.
Dynamic, rule-based rotation that rides bull markets with leveraged growth bets and hedges in bears. Out-of-sample: ~38% annualized return vs SPY ~21%; higher upside but larger drawdowns (~41.7% vs ~18.8%).
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.73 | 1.32 | 0.23 | 0.48 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 570.79% | 14.38% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.89 | |
| 11,393,483.99% | 127.53% | -10.63% | -5.48% | 2.02 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$1,139,358,398.80Regulatory Fees
$4,286,714.30
Total Slippage
$30,761,035.25
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Dec 27, 2023
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Dynamic asset allocation, regime switching, momentum/ trend-following, leveraged etfs, hedging, daily rebalance
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 26 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
DIA
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
IWM
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks
SCO
ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil
Stocks
SHV
iShares Trust iShares 0-1 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks