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.


Portfolio - PlaygroundEUP

Strategies playing to make money

Description

This portfolio employs a strategic approach to buying and selling positions in an attempt to outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy. It presents a viable alternative and complement to long-term position investors, offering favorable exposure characteristics.

The portfolio does not allocate its entire allocation to the market at all times but selectively acquires and sells positions on a daily basis. At times, only one or two positions may be held, but this can rapidly increase if favorable market conditions arise.

Subsequently, this strategy incorporates a small collection of four complementary strategies for acquiring index-related equities and selecting leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The following ETFs are used:

ETF Ticker Leverage
Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF LABU 3x
Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ 1x
ProShares Ultra QQQ QLD 2x
ProShares UltraPro QQQ TQQQ 3x
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF SOXL 3x
Direxion Daily S&P500 Bull 3X ETF SPXL 3x
ProShares Ultra S&P500 SSO 2x
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures SVXY -0.5x
Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X ETF TECL 3x
Direxion Daily 20+ Yr Trsy Bull 3X ETF TMF 3x
Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X ETF TNA 3x
Invesco DB US Dollar Bullish UUP 1x
ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury UBT 2x
ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures VIXY 1.5x

The graph above represents the portfolio growth in recent history.

In the Details section below, the Assets tab shows the range that each asset’s allocation can achieve. This allocation can change on a monthly basis as the portfolio adjusts itself. On the Trades tab is the historic trading record. Note though, the profit column indicates the profit to that one trade and not the portfolio as a whole.

Total position allocation is set to 90.00% of account

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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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Old Portfolio - Playground

Strategies playing to make money

Description

This portfolio employs a strategic approach to buying and selling positions in an attempt to outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy. It presents a viable alternative and complement to long-term position investors, offering favorable exposure characteristics.

The portfolio does not allocate its entire allocation to the market at all times but selectively acquires and sells positions on a daily basis. At times, only one or two positions may be held, but this can rapidly increase if favorable market conditions arise.

Subsequently, this strategy incorporates a small collection of four complementary strategies for acquiring index-related equities and selecting leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The following ETFs are used:

ETF Ticker Leverage
Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF LABU 3x
Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ 1x
ProShares Ultra QQQ QLD 2x
ProShares UltraPro QQQ TQQQ 3x
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF SOXL 3x
Direxion Daily S&P500 Bull 3X ETF SPXL 3x
ProShares Ultra S&P500 SSO 2x
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures SVXY -0.5x
Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X ETF TECL 3x
Direxion Daily 20+ Yr Trsy Bull 3X ETF TMF 3x
Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X ETF TNA 3x
Invesco DB US Dollar Bullish UUP 1x
ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury UBT 2x
ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures VIXY 1.5x

The graph above represents the portfolio growth in recent history.

In the Details section below, the Assets tab shows the range that each asset’s allocation can achieve. This allocation can change on a monthly basis as the portfolio adjusts itself. On the Trades tab is the historic trading record. Note though, the profit column indicates the profit to that one trade and not the portfolio as a whole.

Total position allocation is set to 90.00% of account

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