On Break, New Positions

On Break, New Positions

We apologize for the delay in publishing the Prometheus ETF Portfolio this week. The team is on a short break, and coordinating multiple time zones has proved challenging. We will resume our regular publishing schedule in April and endeavor to be timely until then.

Welcome to our official publication of the Prometheus ETF Portfolio. The Prometheus ETF portfolio systematically combines our knowledge of macro & markets to create an active portfolio that aims to offer high risk-adjusted returns, durable performance, & low drawdowns. Given its systematic nature, we have tested the Prometheus ETF Portfolio through decades of history and have shown its durability. For those of you who are unacquainted with our systematic process, we offer a detailed explanation here:

In this publication, we will discuss the performance, positioning, & risks of the Prometheus ETF Portfolio— and it will be published every week on Fridays to help investors understand how our systematic process is navigating through markets. Before diving into our ETF Portfolio positions, we think it is important for subscribers to understand the context within which our systems choose their exposures. Below, we offer our latest Month In Macro note, which contains the conceptual underpinnings of our systematic process within the context of the latest economic data:

Last week proved to be a strong one as our bets on tightening liquidity paid off handsomely amidst the banking issues today. In our view, these dynamics are a symptom of tightening liquidity, i.e., the source of these issues lies in the financial systems dynamics that we track closely. To understand our views on the true drivers, please reference the note below:

In our assessment, this has not transformed into a systematic credit event and is unlikely to do so. The SVB issues today merely reflect the market-to-market losses of the drawdown in the government’s outstanding liabilities. Unlike the 2008 crisis, the quality of the underlying assets (Treasuries) is not in question.

Last week proved to be a strong one for the Prometheus ETF Portfolio, which was up 0.80% amidst a very tough time for stocks on our tightening liquidity bets. Turning to next week our system are looking to positions as follows:

Positions: Cash (BIL): -0.94% SHY : 44.05% IEI : 12.48% MBB : 8.66% IEF : 7.81% DBC : -4.74% VCIT: 4.27% TLT : 4.05% WEAT: -3.41% XLU : -3.26% USO : -2.86% GLD : 2.63% XLC : 1.39% XLK : 1.34%

The portfolio is long short-duration fixed-income securities with modest short positions in commodities and stocks, reflecting tightening liquidity & weaker growth views. A reversal in Fed expectations post-FOMC remains a risk to these positions. More coverage to come. Until then.

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    FSH, follicle-stimulating hormone; LH, luteinizing hormone; P-, plasma;
    S-, serum SHBG, sexual hormone-binding globulin. Former AAS abusers exhibited
    significantly lower plasma testosterone ranges and better frequencies of symptoms suggestive
    of hypogonadism than healthy control members years after AAS cessation. Current
    AAS abusers exhibited severely decreased
    AMH and inhibin B indicative of impaired spermatogenesis.

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    abnormal liver operate. Antiandrogens are drugs that compete with testosterone for androgen-receptor binding websites; in different words,
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    within the goal cells or lower the quantity of a hormone produced.

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    Men over 40 years of age with baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA) of greater than 0.6 ng/mL should have their PSA levels measured and a prostate examination at three to six months.
    Treatment ought to be withheld in men with a palpable prostate nodule or prostate-specific antigen of greater than 4 ng/mL and in patients
    at excessive danger of prostate malignancy with prostate-specific antigen of more than three ng/mL.

    Checking blood is usually not very useful at this stage, knowing that levels are
    probably disturbed by the current use of AAS. As defined previously, it may
    take weeks or months till exogenous androgen levels have decayed low sufficient for the Hypothalamo-Pituitary Gonad (HPG) axis to restart.
    Oral anabolic steroids have a much shorter half-life and
    restoration of the HPG axis is expected a
    lot faster.
    Lastly, as a outcome of cross-sectional nature of this study, the direction of the relationships cannot
    be determined. In addition to measuring blood stress within the clinic, when laboratory testing is warranted, the authors measure whole
    testosterone, free testosterone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) ranges.

    Though testing for AAS could also be obtainable by way
    of massive industrial laboratories, these urine exams are sometimes not routinely ordered because they do not appear to be
    coated by health insurance and sufferers would wish to consent to pay out
    of pocket. As A Substitute, indirect indictors of AAS use would include low ranges of HDL-C, LH, FSH, and sex-hormone
    binding globulin; elevated levels of aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase; and elevated levels of testosterone and estradiol (depending on whether or not testosterone is used).

    The authors also suggest acquiring a whole blood depend to assess for erythrocytosis, lipid profile for dyslipidemia, liver operate
    exams for liver injury, and an echocardiogram for LV chamber measurement, thickness,
    and performance. These data are essential
    for risk stratification and should assist steer the athlete towards weaning off AAS.

    Due to privateness, the info sets used and/or analyzed through
    the current research are available from the corresponding author upon affordable request.
    Half of the students had a reasonable monthly salary income, while a
    quadrant had a high earnings, and the latter quadrant was distributed between low and really excessive revenue.
    Usually, the scholars were apparently healthy; solely 1% had chronic diseases, and few had taken persistent medications
    (Table 1). The examine was carried out within the Department of Physical Education at An-Najah Nationwide University in Palestine.
    This division’s program aims to prepare students in each tutorial
    and practical issues and to provide the group with certified graduates with a bachelor’s
    or master’s degree in bodily schooling.

    Other short-acting testosterone preparations include these which might be designed to be administered by
    the sublingual or buccal route. Such short-acting formulations
    are of particular concern in sport, because the exogenous supply of testosterone
    is quickly eliminated following cessation of remedy.
    Increased out-of-competition testing helps to
    fight the cheat who’s utilizing short-acting preparations
    and ceasing administration prior to competitors in anticipation of
    testing. It is of interest that an illicit preparation called ‘The Cream’ was designed for transdermal utility (see the section ‘Designer steroids’).
    Oral activity could be conferred by substitution of the 17α-H
    on the steroid nucleus with a methyl or ethyl group to make the 17α-alkylated anabolic steroids.

    However, AAS use remains to be very fashionable and 1–3% of US inhabitants have been estimated to be AAS customers [6].

    Nevertheless, AASs have unwanted effects involving all organs,
    tissues and body features, especially long-term toxicity involving the cardiovascular system
    and the reproductive system, due to this fact, their abuse is taken into account a public
    health issue [9,10]. In this regard, an elevated awareness
    is required among the many inhabitants and healthcare staff, each for diagnostic, therapeutic and prevention purposes.
    The purpose of the proposed evaluation is to focus on the state of the art concerning the
    mechanisms of action of AASs and the adverse results related to AAS use/abuse.

    Men who develop infertility on account of anabolic steroid use could additionally be given medications to assist restore fertility.
    Classification of a facet effects’ likelihood is
    based on expert opinion of the authors. Some of those bodily
    modifications, corresponding to shrinking sex organs in males, can add to mental unwanted effects such
    as temper disorders.
    Also of concern, the demand for designer AAS to keep away from legal detection ensures continued growth of the AAS market, particularly on the Internet, but the physiologic results of these newer, designer medicine are unknown (Geyer et al.,
    2008; Joseph & Parr, 2015). Current knowledge have indicated a
    shift in the acquisition of AAS brokers and data on their use from personal exchanges to the Web the place information is nameless and unregulated (Cohen et al.,
    2007; Evans, 1997). To date, the acquisition course of and ease of purchase of
    AAS from web sites offering AAS have been poorly characterized (Cramer et al., 2005).

    Hence, a more correct term for anabolic steroids is anabolic–androgenic steroids, but, for simplicity, the shorter term is used within this
    paper. How an anabolic steroid could have an result on androgen receptor conformation and interaction with particular coregulators is of apparent interest, as such data might eventually
    provide an extra mechanism for anabolic–androgenic dissociation. It has been suggested that the incidence of cancer in several tissues is strictly
    positively correlated to the number of stem cell divisions within the lifetime occurring in them [50].
    The unwanted facet effects on the pure synthesis
    of anabolic steroids play a potential role in hormonal changes/regulation and
    it could be suspected to be on the base of sure carcinogenic mechanisms [113,119].
    Moreover, easily accessible and generally subtle AASs, corresponding to nandrolone and stanozolol, have the
    potential role within the pathogenesis of cancer, such as Leydig cell tumor by way of a number of course of pathways [113].

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