The Golden Ratio FTLT
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About
A five-bucket, golden-ratio portfolio that uses RSI and moving-average signals to rotate among leveraged growth, EM/balanced, gold, real estate, and cash, with daily rebalancing to pursue trend-following gains while adding hedges for risk control.
The portfolio divides capital into five buckets with weights 42%, 26%, 16%, 10%, and 6%.
Each bucket contains a set of ETF choices and rules that pick which specific ETF to buy based on simple momentum signals and price trends.
Rules look at RSI (a measure of recent price strength) and moving-average checks to decide whether to tilt toward a leveraged growth ETF (like TQQQ or SPXL), a hedging/defensive ETF (like UVXY, SQQQ, or bond/treasury proxies), or a stable/alternate exposure (like IVV, SPY, or gold/real-estate proxies).
There are explicit trend filters (e.g., whether the broad market price is above its 200-day moving average) and conditional switches that push allocations toward hedges when risk signals appear (high RSI on growth ETFs, or rising volatility proxies).
The gold and real-estate buckets use their own RSI and moving-average checks to decide whether to emphasize bullish positions (UGL, DRN) or hedges (GLL, DRV).
Cash sleeve (6%) sits in BIL and acts as a liquidity anchor when risk is high or market signals are mixed.
The system rebalances daily, so allocations adjust to the latest signals, keeping the five-slot structure intact while varying exposure inside each slot according to the rules.
Out-of-sample, this five-bucket Golden Ratio strategy aims ~48% annualized returns vs ~31% for the S&P, with Calmar ~2.06 and beta ~0.91. Accept higher drawdowns for much higher upside, aided by daily rebalancing and built-in hedges.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.66 | 0.79 | 0.23 | 0.48 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 669.43% | 15.2% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.93 | |
| 4,508,697.78% | 110.29% | -2.24% | 11.06% | 2.83 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$450,879,778.02Regulatory Fees
$754,379.96
Total Slippage
$5,358,378.31
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Mar 12, 2025
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Multi-asset, golden ratio, rule-based, momentum/rsi, trend-following, hedging, daily rebalance
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 24 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
DRN
Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
DRV
Direxion Daily Real Estate Bear 3X ETF
Stocks
EDC
Direxion Daily MSCI Emerging Markets Bull 3X ETF
Stocks
EDZ
Direxion Daily MSCI Emerging Markets Bear 3X ETF
Stocks
EEM
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Stocks
GLL
ProShares UltraShort Gold
Stocks
IEI
iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
IGIB
iShares Trust iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Stocks
IVV
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
Stocks