2026 Changes Coming

Looking forward to new portfolios

The plan is to introduce some new portfolios and retire both Playground and Sandbox.

Playground and Sandbox have both performed well over the years. However, both are seeing many of the internal strategies be dormant and not participate as much as one would like. No further buys will be issued and subscribers can either close out open trades or wait for these trades to close naturally.

The new portfolios that will be added are more aligned with current market activity. As time goes forward, additions will be made and removed within each portfolio to keep them more balanced.

Some of the Additions

Portfolio - Stories

This portfolio targets ongoing long-term momentum markets and equities. The use of leverage is limited here. In testing, this has been gold, copper, and now oil is being considered as potential areas to make returns.

Portfolio - Plays

This portfolio targets some of the long-term momentum markets outlined for Stories. The use of leverage is prevalent here. This takes more aggressive targeted bets.

Portfolio - Sectors

This portfolio targets economic sectors represented by the State Street Sector ETFs. These are un-leveraged funds. Allocations to each fund change weekly and attempt to follow market rotation from sector to sector.

Allocations

Allocations with each portfolio are reaccessed each weekend. For the most part, the portfolios are rebalanced using a risk-return metric. This helps with drawdowns and fading momentum plays.


Getting Started

How to make the best of whats here

Portfolio APR 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year
Sectors 21.87% 19.27% 20.75% 21.61%
Stories 54.71% 146.47% 69.80% 79.49%
Plays 130.98% 161.90% 177.01% 167.76%
SleepWell 13.85% 26.69% 19.06% 14.65%
Insomniac 21.53% 52.88% 28.02% 19.70%

These portfolios attempt to achieve different objectives.

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Using leveraged ETFs

Why it can be useful

Media

Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are a type of ETF that use financial derivatives and debt to amplify returns. They are designed to provide investors with a multiple of the daily return of a benchmark index, such as the S&P 500. For example, a 3x leveraged S&P 500 ETF, (SPXL) aims to deliver three times the return of the benchmark index on a daily basis.

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2024 Retrospective

Looking back at the year

The portfolios did relatively well for 2024. Both SleepWell and Insomniac both performed as expected from their past returns. The Playground suffered some trouble keeping up in the later half of the year. It still has had a decent year but compared to the S&P 500(24.01%) and NASDAQ(30.78%) it underperformed on raw returns. However drawdowns were more contained and manageable.

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