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Ethos Swing

Equity · Stocks · Started Jun 2019

hypothetical · Annual Return (Compounded)
6.7%
Max Drawdown
26.7%
Trades
18
Win Trades
55.6%
Profit Factor
2.50
Win Months
11.4%

About this strategy

Ethos Swing is a market timing strategy that aims to place trades at medium term reversal areas in the S&P 500. This is a macro focused strategy which uses a number of sentiment, market breadth, economic strength and volatility indicators to forecast major reversal areas in the S&P.

This system only executes long trades in two ETFs: UPRO and SPXU. Both are ProShares 3x leveraged funds that attempt to replicate the performance of the S&P 500 index, but in opposite directions. Trades are placed in UPRO when the system believes the market is rising and SPXU when declining. Subscribers can expect to be in one of these two ETFs 95% of the time and in cash the other 5%. Since this system is designed to find medium term swings you can plan on placing a modest 5-15 trades per year. More trades are placed when the market is in a range and fewer when it’s trending.

Ethos Swing is compatible with IRA and other retirement accounts since it only holds long positions in popular ETFs. Annual commissions are low because very few trades are placed throughout the year. The ETFs I trade are extremely liquid making this strategy easily scalable for account sizes from $10,000 to over a million dollars. This strategy is compatible with AutoTrading and manual trading on Collective2. If you decide to manually trade Ethos Swing you can choose to trade ETFs pairs with less leverage, and therefore smaller draw downs and less risk, such as SSO/SDS (2x leverage), SPY/SH (no leverage), or even ES futures and mutual funds.

I detail every trade in advance and email my Ethos Update every weekend to subscribers. It summarizes the economic events of the previous week and explains what my strategy is forecasting for the upcoming week.

Please note this strategy that has a fantastic history on C2 of beating the S&P 500 by many multiples over several years and through major market corrections. Even though I employ strict risk controls there will be realistic draw downs in the area of 25%. You will find strategies on C2 with better performance and lower draw downs, but these are usually newer strategies that blow up on the first market pullback. Please keep that in mind when comparing Ethos Swing to newer strategies with a limited trading history.

Please visit http://ethosportfolio.com/strategies/ethos-swing/ for more information and to view the FAQ. Message me on C2 or via email at info@ethosportfolio.com if you have any other questions about my Ethos Swing strategy.

- Strategy Type: Medium term market reversal

- Account Compatibility: Any stock trading account (IRA and retirement account friendly)

- Instruments Traded: UPRO and SPXU - Long Only

- Trading Times: Only during live US market hours

- Position Sizing: Usually 100% of capital on each trade (depending on market volatility)

- Positions Held Overnight: Yes

- Positions Held Through Weekends: Yes

- Average Holding Time: 3 Weeks - 4 Months

- Number of Trades per Year: 5 - 15

- Update Messages: Every weekend / Early notification if a trade is planned (where possible)

Short-term Reversal

Hypothetical Monthly Returns (includes fees/commissions)

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYTD
2019-0.8-2.48.41.518.09.35.344.7
2020-0.312.10.3-11.4-4.2-8.211.815.7-10.120.6-10.00.010.2
20210.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20220.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20230.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20240.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20250.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20260.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0

Statistics

Overview

Strategy began6/30/2019
Suggested Minimum Capital$10,000
Age87 months
What it tradesStocks
# Trades18
# Profitable10
% Profitable55.6%
Avg trade duration25.0 days
Max peak-to-valley drawdown26.7%
drawdown periodMarch 26, 2020 - June 23, 2020
Annual Return (Compounded)6.7%
Avg win$1,224
Avg loss$612

Ratios

W:L ratio2.52
Sharpe Ratio0.39
Sortino Ratio0.58
Calmar Ratio1.30

CORRELATION STATISTICS

Correlation to SP500-0.00
Return Percent SP500 (cumu) during strategy life158.1%
Return of Strat Pcnt - Return of SP500 Pcnt (cumu)-100.0%

Return Statistics

Ann Return (w trading costs)6.7%
Return Pcnt (Compound or Annual, age-based, NFA compliant)0.1%
Return Pcnt Since TOS Status0.0%
Ann Return (Compnd, No Fees)8.0%

Slump

Current Slump as Pcnt Equity12.1%
Current Slump, time of slump as pcnt of strategy life0.8%

Instruments

Percent Trades Forex0.0%
Percent Trades Futures0.0%
Percent Trades Options0.0%
Short Options - Percent Covered100.0%
Percent Trades Stocks1.0%

Risk of Ruin (Monte-Carlo)

Chance of 10% account loss31.5%
Chance of 20% account loss5.5%
Chance of 30% account loss0.0%
Chance of 40% account loss0.0%
Chance of 50% account loss0.0%
Chance of 60% account loss (Monte Carlo)0.0%
Chance of 70% account loss (Monte Carlo)0.0%
Chance of 80% account loss (Monte Carlo)0.0%
Chance of 90% account loss (Monte Carlo)0.0%

Automation

Percentage Signals Automated0.0%

Popularity

Popularity (Today)0
Popularity (Last 6 weeks)0
Popularity (7 days, Percentile 1000 scale)0

Trading Style

Any stock shorts? 0/10

Trades-Own-System Certification

Trades Own System?0
TOS percent0.0%

Win / Loss

Avg Loss$612
Avg Win$1,224
# Winners10
Sum Trade PL (losers)$4,896
Sum Trade PL (winners)$12,241
Num Months Winners10
# Losers8
% Winners55.6%

Dividends

Dividends Received in Model Acct79

Age

Num Months filled monthly returns table88

Frequency

Avg Position Time (mins)36058.33
Avg Position Time (hrs)600.97
Avg Trade Length25
Last Trade Ago2122

Leverage

Daily leverage (average)1.96
Daily leverage (max)3.01

Regression

Alpha0.01
Beta0
Treynor Index-18.43

Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE)

MAE:Equity, average, all trades0.03
MAE:Equity, 95th Percentile Value for this strat0.05
MAE:Equity, average, losing trades0.06
MAE:Equity, losing trades only, 95th Percentile Value for this strat
MAE:Equity, average, winning trades0.02
MAE:Equity, win trades only, 95th Percentile Value for this strat
Avg(MAE) / Avg(PL) - All trades1.09
MAE:PL (avg, all trades)-0.67
MAE:PL (avg, losing trades)
MAE:PL (avg, winning trades)
MAE:PL - worst single value for strategy
Avg(MAE) / Avg(PL) - Winning trades0.17
Avg(MAE) / Avg(PL) - Losing trades-1.22
Hold-and-Hope Ratio0.92

RATIO STATISTICS

Mean0.27
SD0.23
Sharpe ratio (Glass type estimate)1.15
Sharpe ratio (Hedges UMVUE)1.12
df24
t1.67
p0.05
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio-0.25
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio2.54
Lowerbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation-0.28
Upperbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation2.51
Sortino ratio2.59
Upside Potential Ratio4.24
Upside part of mean0.44
Downside part of mean-0.17
Upside SD0.22
Downside SD0.10
N nonnegative terms10
N negative terms15
N of observations25
Mean of predictor0.41
Mean of criterion0.27
SD of predictor0.31
SD of criterion0.23
Covariance-0.02
r-0.27
b (slope, estimate of beta)-0.20
a (intercept, estimate of alpha)0.35
Mean Square Error0.05
DF error23
t(b)-1.36
p(b)0.91
t(a)2.08
p(a)0.02
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for beta-0.52
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0.11
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0.00
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0.70
Treynor index (mean / b)-1.30
Jensen alpha (a)0.35
Mean0.24
SD0.22
Sharpe ratio (Glass type estimate)1.07
Sharpe ratio (Hedges UMVUE)1.04
df24
t1.54
p0.07
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio-0.33
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio2.45
Lowerbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation-0.35
Upperbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation2.42
Sortino ratio2.25
Upside Potential Ratio3.89
Upside part of mean0.41
Downside part of mean-0.17
Upside SD0.20
Downside SD0.11
N nonnegative terms10
N negative terms15
N of observations25
Mean of predictor0.36
Mean of criterion0.24
SD of predictor0.31
SD of criterion0.22
Covariance-0.02
r-0.26
b (slope, estimate of beta)-0.19
a (intercept, estimate of alpha)0.31
Mean Square Error0.05
DF error23
t(b)-1.30
p(b)0.90
t(a)1.90
p(a)0.03
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for beta-0.49
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0.11
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha-0.03
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0.64
Treynor index (mean / b)-1.26
Jensen alpha (a)0.31
VaR(95%)0.08
Expected Shortfall on VaR0.11
VaR(95%)0.04
Expected Shortfall on VaR0.07
Mean0.26
SD0.20
Sharpe ratio (Glass type estimate)1.29
Sharpe ratio (Hedges UMVUE)1.29
df551
t1.88
p0.03
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio-0.06
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio2.64
Lowerbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation-0.06
Upperbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation2.64
Sortino ratio1.95
Upside Potential Ratio7.93
Upside part of mean1.04
Downside part of mean-0.78
Upside SD0.15
Downside SD0.13
N nonnegative terms194
N negative terms358
N of observations552
Mean of predictor0.48
Mean of criterion0.26
SD of predictor0.34
SD of criterion0.20
Covariance-0.00
r-0.01
b (slope, estimate of beta)-0.00
a (intercept, estimate of alpha)0.26
Mean Square Error0.04
DF error550
t(b)-0.12
p(b)0.55
t(a)1.88
p(a)0.03
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for beta-0.05
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0.05
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha-0.01
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0.53
Treynor index (mean / b)-85.73
Jensen alpha (a)0.26
Mean0.24
SD0.20
Sharpe ratio (Glass type estimate)1.19
Sharpe ratio (Hedges UMVUE)1.19
df551
t1.73
p0.04
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio-0.16
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio2.55
Lowerbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation-0.16
Upperbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation2.54
Sortino ratio1.77
Upside Potential Ratio7.73
Upside part of mean1.03
Downside part of mean-0.79
Upside SD0.15
Downside SD0.13
N nonnegative terms194
N negative terms358
N of observations552
Mean of predictor0.42
Mean of criterion0.24
SD of predictor0.34
SD of criterion0.20
Covariance-0.00
r-0.00
b (slope, estimate of beta)-0.00
a (intercept, estimate of alpha)0.24
Mean Square Error0.04
DF error550
t(b)-0.06
p(b)0.52
t(a)1.73
p(a)0.04
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for beta-0.05
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0.05
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha-0.03
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0.50
Treynor index (mean / b)-154.04
Jensen alpha (a)0.24
VaR(95%)0.02
Expected Shortfall on VaR0.02
VaR(95%)0.01
Expected Shortfall on VaR0.02
Mean-0.03
SD0
Sharpe ratio (Glass type estimate)0
Sharpe ratio (Hedges UMVUE)0
df0
t0
p0
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio0
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio0
Lowerbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation0
Upperbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation0
Sortino ratio-16.19
Upside Potential Ratio0
Upside part of mean0
Downside part of mean-0.03
Upside SD0
Downside SD0.00
N nonnegative terms0
N negative terms131
N of observations131
Mean of predictor1.04
Mean of criterion-0.03
SD of predictor0.45
SD of criterion0
Covariance0
r0
b (slope, estimate of beta)0
a (intercept, estimate of alpha)0
Mean Square Error0
DF error0
t(b)0
p(b)0
t(a)0
p(a)0
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha0
Treynor index (mean / b)0
Jensen alpha (a)0
Mean-0.03
SD0
Sharpe ratio (Glass type estimate)-9.74841826823373e+15
Sharpe ratio (Hedges UMVUE)-9.69206937105203e+15
df130
t-6893172865105920
p1
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio0
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for Sharpe Ratio0
Lowerbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation-1.08701574255084e+16
Upperbound of 95% CI (Gibbons, Hedeker & Davis approximation-8513981316595712
Sortino ratio-16.19
Upside Potential Ratio0
Upside part of mean0
Downside part of mean-0.03
Upside SD0
Downside SD0.00
N nonnegative terms0
N negative terms131
N of observations131
Mean of predictor0.94
Mean of criterion-0.03
SD of predictor0.45
SD of criterion0
Covariance0
r0
b (slope, estimate of beta)0
a (intercept, estimate of alpha)-0.03
Mean Square Error0
DF error129
t(b)0
p(b)0.50
t(a)-6808745619226624
p(a)1
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0
VAR (95 Confidence Intrvl)0.02
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for beta0
Lowerbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha-0.03
Upperbound of 95% confidence interval for alpha-0.03
Treynor index (mean / b)-3.19347968256528e+32
Jensen alpha (a)-0.03
VaR(95%)0.00
Expected Shortfall on VaR0.00
VaR(95%)0
Expected Shortfall on VaR0

ORDER STATISTICS

Number of observations25
Minimum0.92
Quartile 11.00
Median1
Quartile 31.08
Maximum1.16
Mean of quarter 10.95
Mean of quarter 21
Mean of quarter 31.04
Mean of quarter 41.12
Inter Quartile Range0.08
Number outliers low0
Percentage of outliers low0
Mean of outliers low0
Number of outliers high0
Percentage of outliers high0
Mean of outliers high0
Extreme Value Index (moments method)-3.80
VaR(95%) (moments method)0.01
Expected Shortfall (moments method)0.01
Extreme Value Index (regression method)-1.39
VaR(95%) (regression method)0.05
Expected Shortfall (regression method)0.05
Number of observations552
Minimum0.95
Quartile 11.00
Median1
Quartile 31.00
Maximum1.05
Mean of quarter 10.99
Mean of quarter 21
Mean of quarter 31.00
Mean of quarter 41.02
Inter Quartile Range0.00
Number outliers low78
Percentage of outliers low0.14
Mean of outliers low0.98
Number of outliers high70
Percentage of outliers high0.13
Mean of outliers high1.02
Extreme Value Index (moments method)-0.37
VaR(95%) (moments method)0.00
Expected Shortfall (moments method)0.00
Extreme Value Index (regression method)0.02
VaR(95%) (regression method)0.01
Expected Shortfall (regression method)0.02
Number of observations131
Minimum1
Quartile 11
Median1
Quartile 31
Maximum1
Mean of quarter 11
Mean of quarter 21
Mean of quarter 31
Mean of quarter 41
Inter Quartile Range0
Number outliers low0
Percentage of outliers low0
Mean of outliers low0
Number of outliers high0
Percentage of outliers high0
Mean of outliers high0
Extreme Value Index (moments method)0
VaR(95%) (moments method)0
Expected Shortfall (moments method)0
Extreme Value Index (regression method)0
VaR(95%) (regression method)0
Expected Shortfall (regression method)0

DRAW DOWN STATISTICS

Number of observations5
Minimum0.00
Quartile 10.01
Median0.06
Quartile 30.07
Maximum0.17
Mean of quarter 10.00
Mean of quarter 20.06
Mean of quarter 30.07
Mean of quarter 40.17
Inter Quartile Range0.06
Number outliers low0
Percentage of outliers low0
Mean of outliers low0
Number of outliers high1
Percentage of outliers high0.20
Mean of outliers high0.17
Extreme Value Index (moments method)0
VaR(95%) (moments method)0
Expected Shortfall (moments method)0
Extreme Value Index (regression method)0
VaR(95%) (regression method)0
Expected Shortfall (regression method)0
Number of observations29
Minimum0.00
Quartile 10.00
Median0.01
Quartile 30.05
Maximum0.23
Mean of quarter 10.00
Mean of quarter 20.01
Mean of quarter 30.03
Mean of quarter 40.11
Inter Quartile Range0.05
Number outliers low0
Percentage of outliers low0
Mean of outliers low0
Number of outliers high2
Percentage of outliers high0.07
Mean of outliers high0.21
Extreme Value Index (moments method)0.41
VaR(95%) (moments method)0.12
Expected Shortfall (moments method)0.23
Extreme Value Index (regression method)0.67
VaR(95%) (regression method)0.12
Expected Shortfall (regression method)0.32
Number of observations0
Minimum0
Quartile 10
Median0
Quartile 30
Maximum0
Mean of quarter 10
Mean of quarter 20
Mean of quarter 30
Mean of quarter 40
Inter Quartile Range0
Number outliers low0
Percentage of outliers low0
Mean of outliers low0
Number of outliers high0
Percentage of outliers high0
Mean of outliers high0
Extreme Value Index (moments method)0
VaR(95%) (moments method)0
Expected Shortfall (moments method)0
Extreme Value Index (regression method)0
VaR(95%) (regression method)0
Expected Shortfall (regression method)0
Strat Max DD how much worse than SP500 max DD during strat life?-447198240
Max Equity Drawdown (num days)89
Last 4 Months - Pcnt Negative0.0%

COMBINED STATISTICS

Annualized return (arithmetic extrapolation)0.36
Compounded annual return (geometric extrapolation)0.31
Calmar ratio (compounded annual return / max draw down)1.78
Compounded annual return / average of 25% largest draw downs1.78
Compounded annual return / Expected Shortfall lognormal2.86
j156mfCOMBRisPar0
j157mfCOMBRisPar0
Annualized return (arithmetic extrapolation)0.35
Compounded annual return (geometric extrapolation)0.30
Calmar ratio (compounded annual return / max draw down)1.30
Compounded annual return / average of 25% largest draw downs2.71
Compounded annual return / Expected Shortfall lognormal12.59
j313dfCOMBRisPar0
j314dfCOMBRisPar0
Annualized return (arithmetic extrapolation)0
Compounded annual return (geometric extrapolation)0
Calmar ratio (compounded annual return / max draw down)0
Compounded annual return / average of 25% largest draw downs0
Compounded annual return / Expected Shortfall lognormal0

Trading record

Placed 37 trades in real-life brokerage accounts.

SymbolSideQtyOpenedClosedP/L
SPXU long1400Oct 13, 2020Nov 9, 2020$519
UPRO long200Jun 30, 2020Oct 13, 2020$3,266
SPXU long570Jun 11, 2020Jun 30, 2020($197)
UPRO long140Jun 5, 2020Jun 11, 2020($754)
SPXU long225Apr 15, 2020Jun 3, 2020($1,327)
SPXU long150Apr 3, 2020Apr 7, 2020($1,162)
SPXU long150Apr 1, 2020Apr 3, 2020($50)
UPRO long225Mar 24, 2020Mar 27, 2020$762
SPXU long160Mar 3, 2020Mar 4, 2020($367)
SPXU long300Feb 25, 2020Mar 2, 2020$924
UPRO long100Feb 3, 2020Feb 20, 2020$634
UPRO long200Jan 28, 2020Jan 31, 2020($424)
SPXU long750Jan 24, 2020Jan 28, 2020$75
UPRO long300Oct 9, 2019Jan 24, 2020$3,768
SPXU long410Sep 24, 2019Oct 9, 2019$427
UPRO long200Aug 15, 2019Sep 24, 2019$1,168
SPXU long330Aug 2, 2019Aug 15, 2019$640
UPRO long175Jul 3, 2019Aug 2, 2019($645)

Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results.

These results are based on simulated or hypothetical performance results that have certain inherent limitations. Unlike the results shown in an actual performance record, these results do not represent actual trading. Also, because these trades have not actually been executed, these results may have under-or over-compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated or hypothetical trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to these being shown.