SquirrelSave AI seems to know something’s happening

Feb 12, 2022

Increased Allocation to Gold & Nasdaq in recent AI-driven rebalancing

The Jan 2022 market correction resulted in the SquirrelSave AI algorithms rebalancing the various reference portfolios.

In reviewing our SquirrelSave AI algorithms, we noticed a very interesting development. In particular, SquirrelSave’s allocation to GLD (SPDR Gold Shares ETF) and QQQ (which tracks the Nasdaq 100 Index) has increased. The chart below shows rebalancing dates triggered by SquirrelSave’s algorithms for SquirrelSave Reference Portfolios (numbered 1006 to 1010).

Source: SquirrelSave

Notes: Portfolio numbers 1006 to 1010 represent risk-labelled reference SquirrelSave (SS) portfolios of Conservative, Balanced, Growth, Aggressive & Very Aggressive. “MDD” refers to the max drawdowns.

The last time we noted SquirrelSave allocating a high weight to Gold was in Nov 2019 when we first launched the algorithms. At that time, it was puzzling and exhaustive rounds of review were done to rule out human or data error.

It became clearer by Feb 2020 when market volatility increased significantly because of the rapid Covid-19 spread and impact on economic activity globally. As it turned out, the larger than expected Gold holdings helped SquirrelSave’s reference portfolios weather the Covid-19 market crash in Feb 2020 until markets generally recovered in April 2020.

What is SquirrelSave telling us via its significant allocation to Gold this time?

Our quantitative investment team believes that based on the analysis of QQQ & GLD prices and the SquirrelSave portfolio rebalancing dates, the reference portfolios are expected to outperform when the market recovers.

A closer look at the latest Gold price movement suggests a possible breakout.

We will watch this closely as we manage the downside risks of our SquirrelSave portfolios during this current period of heightened volatility.

Regards,
SquirrelSave AI Team

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