Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from July 1993 to November 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 November 2024

Managing the Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 8.94% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 8.60%.

How do returns and drawdowns change, implementing different rebalancing strategies?

Rebalancing Strategies

In order to keep risk under control, you should rebalance assets quotes from time to time, so to keep them at the original percentage of the asset allocation.

Rebalancing can be performed in several ways.

At fixed time intervals:
  • Yearly: Jan 1st
  • Half Yearly: Jan 1st, Jul 1st
  • Quarterly: Jan 1st, Apr 1st, Jul 1st, Oct 1st
When a component (at least one) diverges from its original weight beyond a certain threshold (e.g. 5% or 10%).

Portfolio Returns as of Nov 30, 2024

Implementing different rebalancing strategies, the Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on July 1993.

Portfolio returns are calculated in USD, assuming:
  • No fees or capital gain taxes
  • the reinvestment of dividends, if existing
TONY DONG COCKROACH PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: July 1993 - November 2024
Annualized Returns
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Return (%) and number of rebalances as of Nov 30, 2024
Rebalancing Strategy 1Y 5Y 10Y 30Y MAX
(~31Y)
No Rebalancing 19.15 (0) 8.82 (0) 8.24 (0) 8.94 (0) 8.52 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 21.54 (1) 8.05 (5) 7.49 (10) 8.71 (30) 8.29 (31)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 21.33 (2) 8.03 (10) 7.50 (20) 8.60 (60) 8.19 (63)
Quarterly Rebalancing 21.18 (4) 8.03 (20) 7.58 (40) 8.67 (120) 8.25 (126)
5% Tolerance per asset 21.50 (0) 7.99 (1) 7.56 (2) 8.73 (13) 8.32 (13)
10% Tolerance per asset 22.46 (0) 8.37 (0) 7.65 (1) 9.07 (5) 8.65 (5)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical returns and stats of Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

TONY DONG COCKROACH PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: July 1993 - November 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 8.52 (0) 9.17 0.93 -19.70 0.43
Yearly Rebalancing 8.29 (31) 8.20 1.01 -15.88 0.52
Half Yearly Rebalancing 8.19 (63) 8.15 1.00 -16.25 0.50
Quarterly Rebalancing 8.25 (126) 8.16 1.01 -16.33 0.51
5% Tolerance per asset 8.32 (13) 8.24 1.01 -16.46 0.51
10% Tolerance per asset 8.65 (5) 8.33 1.04 -16.17 0.53
(*) Since Jul 1993 (~31 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

TONY DONG COCKROACH PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: July 1993 - November 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-19.70
Dec 2007 - Mar 2010
-15.88
Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
-16.25
Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
-16.33
Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
-16.46
Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
-16.17
Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
-12.03
Apr 2002 - Dec 2003
-11.41
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
-11.38
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
-11.36
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
-11.36
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
-11.35
Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
-11.93
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
-9.16
Jun 2002 - May 2003
-9.98
Jun 2002 - Sep 2003
-9.93
Jun 2002 - Sep 2003
-9.76
Jun 2002 - Sep 2003
-8.93
Aug 2016 - May 2017
-9.59
Jul 1998 - Oct 1998
-9.06
Aug 2016 - May 2017
-8.91
Aug 2016 - May 2017
-8.89
Aug 2016 - May 2017
-8.80
Aug 2016 - May 2017
-8.71
Jan 2001 - Sep 2003
-9.58
Feb 2020 - May 2020
-7.51
Jul 1998 - Oct 1998
-7.64
Nov 1999 - Jun 2000
-7.54
Nov 1999 - Jun 2000
-7.67
Nov 1999 - Jun 2000
-8.47
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-12.57 -10.60 -10.83 -10.81 -10.81 -10.73
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-10.17 -8.58 -8.66 -8.70 -8.75 -8.56

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Tony Dong Cockroach Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.