u/ApolloDan

Corps Combo on John Stewart says that it reduces the power cost of "power set combo abilities".

What does this mean? I imagine it means our main power sets, but does it include Aquatic Arsenal from the water set via the augment for non-water characters? What about abilities like Hopewave from the Blue Lantern Ring?

I'm thinking of levelling him up to help AA power needs, but I'm not sure if it's worth bothering.

So I mostly use Constantine, but I want a single-target damage ally for shorter battles where I just want to nuke the boss. Is that Zod right now?

I finally got all my fire abilities on my atomic tank, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to set up the fire PI for Fire Soul.

Magma Vortex and Stoke Flames seem to be the leaders. Both give everything burning, both have 12 seconds cooldown, and both heal. Magma Vortex is also a pull, which is a bonus, though it has a root, which is actually a problem. Stoke Flames can be clipped, which is a bonus.

What are people's favorite ways of setting up the fire PI for fire tanking or fire/x tanking?

Something called "A.R.G.U.S. Ops" appeared in the On Duty menu today. They seem to be like Omnibus, but it's not clear how they're different. I've looked through the patch notes and can't find anything. Even one of the mods (undrline) seems confused about it and is asking in Discord.

I got a Wolfpack token for father's day. Any thoughts on what might be best to wolfpack? I mostly use my alts for running omnibus and doing weekly quests.

Options are:
Candle of Neron
Clarion
Eye of Gemini
Omega Totality
Page of Destiny
Purified Pages of the Black
Quislet
Razer's Power Battery
Scrap of the Soulcloak
Transformation Card

I'm leaning toward Razer's Power Battery. I also have the Blue Lantern ring, and most of my alts have some healing.

I'm considering making my first substantial change to my 200 SPY SMA strategy since I started it two years ago. So far, I've been using a pretty generic 200 SPY SMA with ~240% equity exposure. I'm very happy with it.

However, on reading this thread, Low Initiative LETF Adventure V2 - 21% CAGR and 27% Max DD : r/LETFs, and this paper, Dual and Canary Momentum with Rising Yields/Inflation: Hybrid Asset Allocation (HAA) by Wouter J. Keller, Jan Willem Keuning :: SSRN, it seems that adding 200 TIP SMA as a secondary filter can make a huge difference.

At the end of the day, a 200 SPY SMA is a lagging indicator. 200 TIP SMA is a canary. This should in principle give me the best of both worlds.

At first, I was skeptical, but the results since 2003 are impressive. Adding TIP as a canary indicator greatly increases the CAGR of my own strategy, from 18.91% to 25.34%:

https://testfol.io/tactical?s=lNdtWOBhwyi

vs

https://testfol.io/tactical?s=iRVf4FHRS5a

I thought that maybe this was because it dodges bullets in 2008 and 2022. Nope, my CAGR increases from 23.58% to 29.22% from 2010 to 2021 too.

The only year it really lags is 2013, when it gave a false signal, and made "only" 35.65% instead of 82.80%. That still beats SPY for the year, and that reduced return is included in all of the other numbers.

I fiddled with the SMA numbers, and still got great results between 150 and 250 on both filters. This isn't just dodging some bad days.

What are people's thoughts on adding TIP as a secondary filter? Am I missing anything? In principle it is actually more conservative, but still gives better outcomes.

For reference, my strategy is:
On: 75% UPRO, 10% RSSX, 6% ZROZ, 3% each MATE/CTAP/RSIT
Off: 15% each RSSX, GLDM, ZROZ, VTIP, SGOV, 5% each MATE/CTAP/RSIT/DBMF/HFMF
1% band on SPY SMA, 0% band on TIP SMA
January rebalance

Which is better for DPS? Oan Tactical and Constantine improve my damage, and Constantine also improves the team's. Swamp Thing gives a massive boost to Envirotech. However, Envirotech and Swamp Think are out of synch.

Thoughts on which is a better damage combo?

I've been running about 240% equities using a 200 SMA strategy for almost two years with the bulk of my retirement fund, and I thought that I'd give some strategies that I've learned over the time that I did it. It's been a great time to test the psychology, because we've had Liberation Day and the Iran War, which have been real stress tests for this strategy.

I'm going to give four techniques that I came up with to help me manage having most of my life savings in a strategy that most people can't hold for a week. Here they are:

1. Training: 200 SMA is a psychological skill that requires training. I needed to get used to the movement of UPRO, so that it didn't worry me. I started my portfolio with 50% UPRO and 50% BTAL. This gave me the chance to watch UPRO move, while BTAL countered much of its action. I then shifted it 5% per month, until I reached 75% UPRO and 25% BTAL. This also had the advantage of being a kind of DCA in, since I started the strategy when SPY was significantly above its 200 SMA, making a big loss was possible. I then shifted BTAL into other diversifiers.

2. Looking at the Line: When I think about my "results", I only look at the 200 SMA line itself. After all, SPY will eventually hit that 200 SMA line again, and that's when I'm going to sell. So, that's my real results, assuming I don't bail out early. The 200 SMA line is much more stable than SPY and UPRO themselves, and is generally going up, at least while I'm invested in it. It makes the whole thing feel smoother. The 200 SMA is my ongoing result.

3. Staying Invested: When I rotate out, I now rotate to a 4-way mixture of stocks, bonds, managed futures and gold+Bitcoin. This keeps me from getting itchy, while giving me a hyper-resilient portfolio that does well in any investment environment. The first time I rotated out, I went to cash and ended up throwing a little money at Poland while I waited (actually a good investment, but that's not the point). At the end of the day, the 200 SMA strategy is about the on period not the off period, so there is some flexibility here.

4. When To Make Tweaks: I made a few tweaks over time as new ETFs came out, and of course I changed my downtime strategy entirely. The important thing is to make these decisions before they apply. Making changes in real time is a disaster. So, I decided to change my downtime strategy during uptime. I also decided a slight tweak to my rotation rules between rotations, well before they would apply.

So, that's what I came up with. Not only am I now happy with this strategy, I actually feel more comfortable with this strategy than with my TFSA that has much less exposure and no rotation. I know that I can get out of the market when it turns down, that I'll crush it when it goes up, and that I'm on a freeroll for the occasional rough bounce like we faced in the Iran War. I hope others find this helpful.

None of the above is investment advice.

For reference:
200 SMA rules:
Rotating out at close when SPY drops below 200 SMA.
Rotating in at close when SPY is above 200 SMA for five consecutive days or by 3%, whichever comes first.
Uptime Portfolio:
75% UPRO, 10% RSSX, 6% ZROZ, 3% each MATE/CTAP/RSST
Dowtime Portfolio:
15% RSSX, 15% GLDM, 15% ZROZ, 15% VTIP, 15% SGOV, 5% each MATE/CTAP/RSST/HFMF/DBMF