Low Volatility
The simulation finished up 8.92% versus contributed principal.
Created at 2026-07-14 19:51:22 / Updated by Colin ZHao
Thesis
No forward-looking thesis was provided.
Goal
Test whether low-volatility large caps compound capital with shallower drawdowns
Primary metric: Annualized edge over equal-weight S&P 500 with drawdown context
Period
- Simulation range
- 2001-07-03 -> 2006-07-10
- Starting value
- 202,500.00
- Principal contributed
- 345,000.00
- Ending cash
- 375,778.77
Strategy Rules
Low Volatility lowvol-2001-top15-rb6-vd252
- No look-ahead; trailing realized volatility only
Result
- Ending value
- 375,778.77Portfolio value at the final available date
- Total gain/loss
- +30,778.77+8.92%
- Avg yearly gain
- +2.16%Money-weighted annualized return using the recorded deposit schedule
- S&P 500 (EW) yearly gain
- +15.57%S&P 500 (EW) ending value: 627,670.03
- Max drawdown
- +0.00%0 open positions at the end of the run
Run Facts
- Largest position
- 0.00%
- Cash position
- 375,778.77 (100.00%)
- Unique stocks traded
- 0
Tax Profile
- Unrealized gain exposure
- +0.00
- Long-term tax
- 0.00
- Short-term tax
- 0.00
- Dividend tax
- 0.00
- Total estimated tax
- 7,386.91
Strategy Check
- The strategy followed the trading-universe rule: 0 user-selected stocks were traded, with 0 buys and 0 sells.
- The strategy met the capital-growth goal in absolute terms, finishing with a 8.92% return on contributed principal.
- The strategy followed the no-sell rule for the full run.
- The path was volatile: maximum drawdown reached 0.00%.
- Cash usage drifted higher than intended at the end of the run, finishing at 100.00% of the portfolio.
Note
Pure low-volatility large-cap strategy: hold the lowest-realized-volatility liquid profitable names over a trailing 252d window.
Positions At Report Date
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As of 2006-07-10