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The following algorithm is based on the German Faulbär-Strategie introduced by Christopher Klein, which I roughly translated as "Lazy-Ass-Strategy". The one rule is ridiculously simple:
Once a year, invest 100% in the ETF with the worst anualized return from a list of country-index ETFs.
The reasons why this strategy might work, are open for discussion. One reason could be some kind of a mean-reversion rule, another one could be administrative interventions such as quantitative easing.
The one parameter for the simplest version of this strategy is the static universe, which should obviously only contain ETFs of relatively stable countries. Other parameters such as trend filters may be added, to reduce the maximum drawdown.
Jared Broad
What a fun algorithm! Nice work! I didn't know there were that many country-ETFs! The ETF basket/universe might make a simple universe selection model which we can open source since it is rare to add a new county it has a limited look-ahead bias.
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Filib Uster
I agree, this kind of built-in universe could come in handy in all kinds of algorithms that not only focus on the US market.
Filib Uster
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