Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy

TotalReturn:

'Total return, when measuring performance, is the actual rate of return of an investment or a pool of investments over a given evaluation period. Total return includes interest, capital gains, dividends and distributions realized over a given period of time. Total return accounts for two categories of return: income including interest paid by fixed-income investments, distributions or dividends and capital appreciation, representing the change in the market price of an asset.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (33.7%) in the period of the last 5 years, the total return, or performance of 47.7% of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is larger, thus better.
• Looking at total return, or performance in of 15.4% in the period of the last 3 years, we see it is relatively lower, thus worse in comparison to GLD (30.9%).

CAGR:

'The compound annual growth rate isn't a true return rate, but rather a representational figure. It is essentially a number that describes the rate at which an investment would have grown if it had grown the same rate every year and the profits were reinvested at the end of each year. In reality, this sort of performance is unlikely. However, CAGR can be used to smooth returns so that they may be more easily understood when compared to alternative investments.'

• The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) over 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is 8.1%, which is larger, thus better compared to the benchmark GLD (6%) in the same period.
• Compared with GLD (9.4%) in the period of the last 3 years, the annual return (CAGR) of 4.9% is lower, thus worse.

Volatility:

'Volatility is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. Volatility can either be measured by using the standard deviation or variance between returns from that same security or market index. Commonly, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security. In the securities markets, volatility is often associated with big swings in either direction. For example, when the stock market rises and falls more than one percent over a sustained period of time, it is called a 'volatile' market.'

• Looking at the historical 30 days volatility of 9.5% in the last 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy, we see it is relatively smaller, thus better in comparison to the benchmark GLD (13.3%)
• Compared with GLD (12.4%) in the period of the last 3 years, the volatility of 8.3% is smaller, thus better.

DownVol:

'The downside volatility is similar to the volatility, or standard deviation, but only takes losing/negative periods into account.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (9%) in the period of the last 5 years, the downside deviation of 6.3% of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is smaller, thus better.
• During the last 3 years, the downside risk is 5.8%, which is lower, thus better than the value of 8.4% from the benchmark.

Sharpe:

'The Sharpe ratio is the measure of risk-adjusted return of a financial portfolio. Sharpe ratio is a measure of excess portfolio return over the risk-free rate relative to its standard deviation. Normally, the 90-day Treasury bill rate is taken as the proxy for risk-free rate. A portfolio with a higher Sharpe ratio is considered superior relative to its peers. The measure was named after William F Sharpe, a Nobel laureate and professor of finance, emeritus at Stanford University.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (0.26) in the period of the last 5 years, the ratio of return and volatility (Sharpe) of 0.59 of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is larger, thus better.
• Compared with GLD (0.56) in the period of the last 3 years, the risk / return profile (Sharpe) of 0.29 is smaller, thus worse.

Sortino:

'The Sortino ratio, a variation of the Sharpe ratio only factors in the downside, or negative volatility, rather than the total volatility used in calculating the Sharpe ratio. The theory behind the Sortino variation is that upside volatility is a plus for the investment, and it, therefore, should not be included in the risk calculation. Therefore, the Sortino ratio takes upside volatility out of the equation and uses only the downside standard deviation in its calculation instead of the total standard deviation that is used in calculating the Sharpe ratio.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (0.39) in the period of the last 5 years, the downside risk / excess return profile of 0.89 of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is larger, thus better.
• Looking at downside risk / excess return profile in of 0.41 in the period of the last 3 years, we see it is relatively lower, thus worse in comparison to GLD (0.82).

Ulcer:

'The ulcer index is a stock market risk measure or technical analysis indicator devised by Peter Martin in 1987, and published by him and Byron McCann in their 1989 book The Investors Guide to Fidelity Funds. It's designed as a measure of volatility, but only volatility in the downward direction, i.e. the amount of drawdown or retracement occurring over a period. Other volatility measures like standard deviation treat up and down movement equally, but a trader doesn't mind upward movement, it's the downside that causes stress and stomach ulcers that the index's name suggests.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (7.46 ) in the period of the last 5 years, the Downside risk index of 3.68 of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is lower, thus better.
• During the last 3 years, the Ulcer Ratio is 3.32 , which is lower, thus better than the value of 5.64 from the benchmark.

MaxDD:

'Maximum drawdown is defined as the peak-to-trough decline of an investment during a specific period. It is usually quoted as a percentage of the peak value. The maximum drawdown can be calculated based on absolute returns, in order to identify strategies that suffer less during market downturns, such as low-volatility strategies. However, the maximum drawdown can also be calculated based on returns relative to a benchmark index, for identifying strategies that show steady outperformance over time.'

• Looking at the maximum drop from peak to valley of -10.1 days in the last 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy, we see it is relatively larger, thus better in comparison to the benchmark GLD (-17.8 days)
• Looking at maximum reduction from previous high in of -9.5 days in the period of the last 3 years, we see it is relatively higher, thus better in comparison to GLD (-13.8 days).

MaxDuration:

'The Drawdown Duration is the length of any peak to peak period, or the time between new equity highs. The Max Drawdown Duration is the worst (the maximum/longest) amount of time an investment has seen between peaks (equity highs) in days.'

• Looking at the maximum days below previous high of 181 days in the last 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy, we see it is relatively lower, thus better in comparison to the benchmark GLD (741 days)
• Compared with GLD (352 days) in the period of the last 3 years, the maximum time in days below previous high water mark of 181 days is smaller, thus better.

AveDuration:

'The Drawdown Duration is the length of any peak to peak period, or the time between new equity highs. The Avg Drawdown Duration is the average amount of time an investment has seen between peaks (equity highs), or in other terms the average of time under water of all drawdowns. So in contrast to the Maximum duration it does not measure only one drawdown event but calculates the average of all.'

• The average days under water over 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is 49 days, which is lower, thus better compared to the benchmark GLD (245 days) in the same period.
• During the last 3 years, the average days under water is 54 days, which is smaller, thus better than the value of 103 days from the benchmark.