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About
A market-timing strategy that shifts between stock-heavy, defensive, and sometimes anti-tech positions based on long-term market trend, shorter trend changes, and whether tech stocks look sharply oversold.
This strategy first judges whether the U.S. stock market is in a long good period or a long bad period by comparing long-term trend lines on the S&P 500.
If conditions look healthy, it mainly owns NTSX, a stock-focused fund with some bond exposure. If markets look overheated, it adds DBMF, a fund that follows trends across many markets.
If conditions weaken, it becomes more defensive by using DBMF, gold (GLD), and Treasury bond funds like SHY, IEF, or TLT. In the worst environments, it may even use PSQ, which rises when the Nasdaq-100 falls.
There is one aggressive exception: when tech stocks look suddenly very beaten down, it buys XLK, a technology-sector fund, hoping for a rebound.
Regime-aware, risk-controlled exposure. Out-of-sample: annualized return 18.4% vs SPY 20.0%, max drawdown 10.8% vs 18.8%, Calmar 1.70, Sharpe 1.21. Enjoy steadier gains and far better downside protection than the S&P 500.
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YTD
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.12 | 0.52 | 0.45 | 0.67 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201.99% | 16.11% | -0.05% | 3.57% | 0.87 | |
| 310.71% | 21.03% | -0.61% | 1.85% | 1.35 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$41,070.55Regulatory Fees
$55.94
Total Slippage
$416.94
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Feb 13, 2023
Trading Setting
Threshold 12%
Type
Stocks
Category
Trend following, regime switching, tactical asset allocation, risk management, equities, managed futures, gold, treasuries
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 14 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
DBMF
iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF
Stocks
GLD
SPDR Gold Trust, SPDR Gold Shares
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
NTSX
WisdomTree U.S. Efficient Core Fund
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks
QUAL
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
Stocks
RPV
Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF
Stocks
RSP
Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF
Stocks