Vox's Trend Switchboard
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About
A daily trend “switchboard” that flips between leveraged stock ETFs in uptrends and a momentum-picked basket of defensive assets when conditions worsen, guided by multiple market health gauges (tech vs utilities, lumber vs gold, bonds vs cash, volatility).
It watches several “market health” gauges (for example: is the S&P 500 above key averages? Is tech beating utilities? Is lumber beating gold? Are bonds beating cash? Is volatility spiking?).
• If the gauges say risk-on, it buys 2–3 of the fastest-rising stock funds (often 3x versions of the S&P 500, Nasdaq‑100, or Dow).
• If they say risk-off, it rotates into the 3–4 strongest “safe havens” (long/short long‑term Treasuries, US dollar, commodities, gold, utilities, volatility ETFs, or T‑bills).
It rechecks and rebalances daily and even picks the best recent sub‑models to follow.
Out-of-sample return 32.8% vs SPY 23.6%; Calmar ~1.14; adaptive risk-on/off with leveraged trend bets. Higher upside, dynamic hedging; but drawdowns can be larger (~28.8%) than SPX.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.35 | 0.76 | 0.29 | 0.54 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 262.58% | 15.13% | 1.72% | 4.21% | 0.85 | |
| 5,101.84% | 54.07% | 2.63% | -0.14% | 1.77 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$520,183.59Regulatory Fees
$2,093.91
Total Slippage
$16,071.10
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OOS Start Date
Nov 4, 2023
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Trend-following, tactical asset allocation, risk-on/risk-off, momentum, leveraged etfs, multi-asset, daily rebalancing