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One rules-based trade a week.
Every signal public.
Every drawdown disclosed.

Alpha Gear is a systematic trend-following framework for a Roth IRA. Five published rules decide one position each Friday — no opinions, no discretion.

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This Friday the rules computedTURBO1×· 100% QQQ · 2026-06-05

31.2%

historical CAGR

weekly 220-day basis — the basis actually traded

≈29.1% on the conventional daily 200-day basis — see Evidence.

−38.9%

worst drawdown

2022 — real, and survived by the rules

Real data only

tested on real TQQQ

from 2010 inception — no synthetic pre-history

All figures are historical backtest results on real data since 2010. The framework is leverage-based (3× TQQQ in TURBO mode). History does not predict the future.

How it works

A framework you could run yourself — we just compute it for you.

Five rules, checked every Friday

At each Friday close the framework reads five market signals — trend, slope, volatility, an 18-day confirmation, and a credit-stress gate. No opinions, no discretion.

One position at a time

Those signals resolve to exactly one gear — full growth, cautious, defensive, or cash. There is one decision: which gear. Most weeks, nothing changes.

You get one email

Each Friday you receive the current gear and the single position to match it. A few minutes, once a week — that’s the entire workload.

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