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 (137.4%) in the period of the last 5 years, the total return, or performance of 135.5% of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is lower, thus worse.
• Compared with GLD (136.9%) in the period of the last 3 years, the total return of 76.9% is smaller, thus worse.

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.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (19%) in the period of the last 5 years, the annual performance (CAGR) of 18.8% of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is lower, thus worse.
• During the last 3 years, the annual return (CAGR) is 21%, which is lower, thus worse than the value of 33.5% from the benchmark.

Volatility:

'In finance, volatility (symbol σ) is the degree of variation of a trading price series over time as measured by the standard deviation of logarithmic returns. Historic volatility measures a time series of past market prices. Implied volatility looks forward in time, being derived from the market price of a market-traded derivative (in particular, an option). Commonly, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security.'

• The volatility over 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is 11.6%, which is lower, thus better compared to the benchmark GLD (15.6%) in the same period.
• Looking at 30 days standard deviation in of 12.1% in the period of the last 3 years, we see it is relatively lower, thus better in comparison to GLD (16.3%).

DownVol:

'Downside risk is the financial risk associated with losses. That is, it is the risk of the actual return being below the expected return, or the uncertainty about the magnitude of that difference. Risk measures typically quantify the downside risk, whereas the standard deviation (an example of a deviation risk measure) measures both the upside and downside risk. Specifically, downside risk in our definition is the semi-deviation, that is the standard deviation of all negative returns.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (10.6%) in the period of the last 5 years, the downside deviation of 8% of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is lower, thus better.
• During the last 3 years, the downside risk is 8.2%, which is smaller, thus better than the value of 10.9% from the benchmark.

Sharpe:

'The Sharpe ratio (also known as the Sharpe index, the Sharpe measure, and the reward-to-variability ratio) is a way to examine the performance of an investment by adjusting for its risk. The ratio measures the excess return (or risk premium) per unit of deviation in an investment asset or a trading strategy, typically referred to as risk, named after William F. Sharpe.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (1.06) in the period of the last 5 years, the ratio of return and volatility (Sharpe) of 1.4 of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is larger, thus better.
• Compared with GLD (1.9) in the period of the last 3 years, the ratio of return and volatility (Sharpe) of 1.54 is lower, thus worse.

Sortino:

'The Sortino ratio measures the risk-adjusted return of an investment asset, portfolio, or strategy. It is a modification of the Sharpe ratio but penalizes only those returns falling below a user-specified target or required rate of return, while the Sharpe ratio penalizes both upside and downside volatility equally. Though both ratios measure an investment's risk-adjusted return, they do so in significantly different ways that will frequently lead to differing conclusions as to the true nature of the investment's return-generating efficiency. The Sortino ratio is used as a way to compare the risk-adjusted performance of programs with differing risk and return profiles. In general, risk-adjusted returns seek to normalize the risk across programs and then see which has the higher return unit per risk.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (1.55) in the period of the last 5 years, the ratio of annual return and downside deviation of 2.04 of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is higher, thus better.
• During the last 3 years, the downside risk / excess return profile is 2.25, which is smaller, thus worse than the value of 2.85 from the benchmark.

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.'

• Looking at the Ulcer Index of 5.33 in the last 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy, we see it is relatively smaller, thus better in comparison to the benchmark GLD (7.13 )
• Looking at Ulcer Ratio in of 4.26 in the period of the last 3 years, we see it is relatively higher, thus worse in comparison to GLD (3.83 ).

MaxDD:

'Maximum drawdown measures the loss in any losing period during a fund’s investment record. It is defined as the percent retrenchment from a fund’s peak value to the fund’s valley value. The drawdown is in effect from the time the fund’s retrenchment begins until a new fund high is reached. The maximum drawdown encompasses both the period from the fund’s peak to the fund’s valley (length), and the time from the fund’s valley to a new fund high (recovery). It measures the largest percentage drawdown that has occurred in any fund’s data record.'

• Compared with the benchmark GLD (-21 days) in the period of the last 5 years, the maximum drop from peak to valley of -15.3 days of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is greater, thus better.
• During the last 3 years, the maximum reduction from previous high is -12 days, which is lower, thus worse than the value of -11.3 days from the benchmark.

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.'

• The maximum days under water over 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is 471 days, which is higher, thus worse compared to the benchmark GLD (436 days) in the same period.
• Looking at maximum days below previous high in of 234 days in the period of the last 3 years, we see it is relatively larger, thus worse in comparison to GLD (145 days).

AveDuration:

'The Average Drawdown Duration is an extension of the Maximum Drawdown. However, this metric does not explain the drawdown in dollars or percentages, rather in days, weeks, or months. 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 time in days below previous high water mark over 5 years of Leveraged Gold-Currency Strategy is 111 days, which is higher, thus worse compared to the benchmark GLD (108 days) in the same period.
• During the last 3 years, the average time in days below previous high water mark is 54 days, which is larger, thus worse than the value of 29 days from the benchmark.