Different approaches to finding trades.
Each strategy has its own dashboard, signals, and (where applicable) backtest.
Leverage Rotation
Flagship binary trend filter. Fully invested in leveraged ETFs (TQQQ/UPRO/QLD) while SPY holds above its 200-day SMA; fully in BIL when it breaks below. Live paper track record accruing since launch. Recommended for Roth/Traditional IRA: frequent switching is tax-free there.
- +SPY 200/150-day trend filter
- +Recommended: Roth/Traditional IRA
- +Live Schwab integration
- +Live paper track record
Volatility Scalping
Geometric grid strategy for TQQQ and other volatile tickers. 88 buy zones with exact limit prices: let volatility work for you. Recommended for Roth/Traditional IRA: constant rebalancing is tax-costly and wash-sale-prone in a taxable account.
- +88 grid levels
- +Recommended: Roth/Traditional IRA
- +Any volatile ticker
- +Live paper track record
Leverage Ladder
Secondary graduated-band variant of Leverage Rotation. Steps leverage down through a transitional zone instead of flipping 3x-to-cash in one move. Did not beat the binary filter in backtesting; tracked live to let the forward record decide. Recommended for Roth/Traditional IRA (switches even more often than the flagship).
- +Config variant of Leverage Rotation
- +Recommended: Roth/Traditional IRA
- +Live paper track record
- +Unproven vs. the flagship
Storm Shield Rotation
Three independently-subscribable sleeves (TQQQ, UPRO, USD) on the SPY 200/150-day trend filter, parked in SGOV (0-3 month Treasury bills), with a bear-confirmed re-entry delay. TQQQ sleeve alone adds a QQQ realized-volatility circuit breaker. Live paper track record per sleeve since launch. Recommended for Roth/Traditional IRA.
- +SPY 200/150-day trend filter (shared core)
- +Recommended: Roth/Traditional IRA
- +Bear-confirmed re-entry delay
- +TQQQ: + QQQ vol circuit breaker
- +3 independent live paper track records
Fortress Core
Two sleeves in a taxable account: an Engine of 2x ETFs that is only ever bought, and a Fortress reserve of structured cash you compose yourself (SGOV, a defensive ETF, individual names, or any mix) spent into it when SPY closes below its 200-day average for five days. Acts on rare deep drawdowns rather than daily switching, accelerates when VIX closes at or above 40, and swaps the Engine to 3x at -30%. Recommended for taxable accounts specifically: the Engine is never sold to fund the ladder, which is the edge a Roth already gets for free. The 3x swap is the one exception and does realize gains, timed for long-term treatment.
- +Engine bought, never sold
- +Recommended: taxable accounts
- +Deploys on SPY below its 200-day, 2x to 3x at -30%
- +VIX 40+ accelerates deployment
- +A methodology: it acts rarely, by design
Quarterly Ratchet
Quarterly value averaging on a leveraged sleeve. The sleeve carries a target that ratchets up a fixed percentage each quarter: trim whatever sits above the line into a reserve, and buy the shortfall from the reserve when you are below it. The technique is value averaging, set out in Edleson (1991). A configurable backtest rather than a signal service, and open without an account: pick the sleeve, the quarterly target, the split and whether a trend-filter exit is applied, and read what each did across three market eras. It shows the failure mode as prominently as the returns, because without the exit the same rule lost 98.89% through 1999-2009.
- +Quarterly value averaging
- +Three market eras, never one number
- +TQQQ, SOXL or UPRO
- +Free: no account needed