Investment thesis
Benchmarks — economic intuition. Passive buy-and-hold references spanning equity (SPY, QQQ, FTWD), commodity (GLD) and crypto (BTC) beta. Included for side-by-side comparison so every active strategy can be evaluated against the investable beta it seeks to outperform — and specifically against the asset class it actually trades, since a gold or crypto strategy measured only against equity indices will show spurious independence.
Strategy summary. Buy-and-hold SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) — commodity benchmark.
Risk-adjusted performance — live track record
Forward-tested daily against live market data. Metrics derived from end-of-day portfolio marks; methodology documented on the Due Diligence and About pages.
| Return | Value | Risk-adjusted | Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current portfolio worth | $10337.25 | Sharpe ratio | 0.35 | |
| Total return | 3.37% | Sortino ratio | 0.48 | |
| CAGR | 5.07% | Calmar ratio | 0.20 | |
| Volatility (annualised) | 28.01% | Profit factor | 1.08 | |
| Days live | 142 | Maximum drawdown | -25.30% |
Process consistency
| Positive months | 62.5% |
| Best month | 17.56% |
| Worst month | -13.94% |
| Recovery from max drawdown | still underwater |
Market independence and alpha
Measured against every benchmark over the strategy’s own live window. Alpha is annualised Jensen’s alpha (the return not explained by benchmark exposure, assuming a zero risk-free rate); t is its t-statistic.
| Benchmark | Correlation | 90-day rolling correlation | Beta | Alpha (ann.) | t |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.48 | 0.69 | 1.11 | -15.68% | -0.48 n.s. |
| QQQ | 0.30 | 0.51 | 0.45 | -3.11% | -0.09 n.s. |
| FTWD | 0.48 | 0.44 | 1.23 | -21.57% | -0.66 n.s. |
| BTC | -0.09 | 0.38 | -0.06 | +6.57% | 0.18 n.s. |
Correlation materially below 1.0 to all benchmarks indicates returns that are not a re-expression of long equity beta — a strategy tracking one index closely while showing low correlation to another is not diversifying, only rotating.
Closest benchmark: SPY (correlation 0.48). Alpha against it is -15.68% annualised but not statistically significant (|t| = -0.48 < 2), meaning it cannot be distinguished from zero at this sample size.
Trading activity
Ratios computed over calendar days understate strategies that hold cash and overstate those that simply trade rarely, so exposure is disclosed directly.
| Lifetime executed trades | 0 |
| Days with no position change | 31.9% |
| Sortino over active days only | 0.58 |
Note: with 0 executed trades this track record reflects a held position, not an active strategy. Its risk-adjusted ratios are driven mainly by the underlying asset’s path and time out of the market.
Equity curve
Live track record — forward-tested performance from the strategy's production start date.
Drawdown profile
Underwater curve — percentage below the running high-water mark. Institutional allocators read this before the equity curve.
Current holdings
| Symbol | Quantity |
|---|---|
| GLD | 26.0227 |
| USD | 0.0000 |
Research & documentation
- Strategy deep-dive: Benchmark_GLD: strategy deep-dive & live performance
- Framework: python_tradingbot_framework (open source, fully inspectable)
Related strategies
Other strategies in the Benchmarks family:
- Benchmark_SPY · research note- Benchmark_QQQ · research note- Benchmark_FTWD · research note Or view the full strategy roster.
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