Strategy

Repricing Flow Strategy

Repricing Flow is a long-biased systematic L/S equity strategy designed to outperform SPY in unhedged GBP terms by buying liquid US/UK/EU equities undergoing slow institutional repricing, while using short index exposure and downside overlays to control market drawdown rather than neutralise beta.

It buys liquid stocks where fundamental improvement is confirmed by price action, but where large investors typically adjust exposure gradually because of liquidity, benchmark, mandate, and career-risk constraints.

The value proposition versus simply buying SPY is upgraded equity participation: retain exposure to the same equity-risk engine, but replace passive index ownership with a diversified, capped stock-selection book, explicit cost/liquidity discipline, and downside protection.

In the current Best Sharpe backtest, 2020-01-02 to 2026-06-02, the strategy returns 19.4% annualised versus 14.6% for SPY GBP, with Sharpe 2.06 versus 0.76 and max drawdown -8.8% versus -25.8%, delivering roughly +4.8% annualised excess return with materially lower realised downside.

Implementation spectrum

Best Sharpe, risk-tight, and conservative variants

Role Annualised return Volatility Sharpe Max drawdown Latest beta Turnover Notes
Best Sharpe specification 19.4% 9.4% 2.06 -8.8% 0.48 32.0% Lead research book. Uses more drawdown budget, but remains below the informal -10% danger line.
Risk-tight boundary 18.5% 9.4% 1.98 -7.9% 0.43 32.0% Tight implementation if the drawdown limit is treated as -8% rather than -10%.
Conservative fallback 17.6% 9.4% 1.88 -7.0% 0.38 32.0% Lower-beta version for capital-ramp or conservative implementation framing.

Historical research output only. Figures are not live performance, target returns, investment advice, an offer, solicitation, or a recommendation.

Against SPY in unhedged GBP terms over 2020-01-02 to 2026-06-02:

Variant Ann. return SPY ann. return Annualised outperformance Total return SPY total return Total outperformance
beta045 Best Sharpe 19.4% 14.6% +4.8% p.a. 224.4% 146.8% +77.6 pp
beta040 risk-tight 18.5% 14.6% +3.9% p.a. 208.5% 146.8% +61.6 pp
beta035 conservative 17.6% 14.6% +3.0% p.a. 193.1% 146.8% +46.3 pp

Report figures

Implementation diagnostics

Selected strategy cumulative return and drawdown diagnostic
Cumulative return and drawdown reviewBest Sharpe, risk-tight, and conservative variants reviewed against the drawdown budget.
Parameter stability fan for neighbouring strategy specifications
Parameter stabilityNeighbouring specifications remain coherent around the Best Sharpe implementation area.