The Pollinate Portfolio

The biggest hedge funds in the world — Citadel, Millennium, Point72 — all run the same playbook. They don't bet everything on one strategy. They run dozens of uncorrelated strategies at once, each with its own edge, and let diversification do the heavy lifting.

The math is simple. When one strategy hits a drawdown, the others keep compounding. The portfolio never has to dig out of a deep hole because the damage is always contained. A 30% drawdown takes a 43% gain to recover from. A 15% drawdown only needs 18%. You spend more time making money and less time clawing it back.

That's exactly what happens here. TrendLock catches big momentum moves but sits in cash during bear markets. SwingHunter trades mean-reversion setups that show up in any regime. CrisisHunter turns panic into profit by buying extreme fear. Monthly Flip captures the reliable turn-of-month effect. They trade different timeframes, different instruments, different market conditions.

The result: the combined Sharpe ratio (1.39) is higher than any single strategy. The max drawdown (-15.6%) is half the worst individual strategy. The equity curve is smoother and the returns are more consistent, month after month, year after year.

You're not paying for one signal. You're paying for a portfolio — the same structural advantage that funds charge 2-and-20 for, at a fraction of the cost.