SkySail's NQ-GX7 extends the firm's core systematic architecture into an expanded composite framework designed around Nasdaq Futures, uniting the four structural pillars of the GRIP Alpha Model™ — Growth, Resilient, Independent, and Protective — across a broader set of market conditions and behavioral regimes. Built upon the same proprietary weak-form market efficiency thesis that anchors the NQ-GXT engine, NQ-GX7 widens the strategy's signal aperture to capture inefficiencies that emerge not only from the primary interplay of liquidity, volatility, and sentiment, but from secondary structural dynamics that conventional single-strategy frameworks leave unexploited.
In essence, NQ-GX7 is the expanded institutional expression of the GRIP Alpha Model™ — a regime-aware, multi-layered composite that transforms market complexity into a more resilient and continuous architecture of opportunity. Its purpose is not merely to outperform benchmarks, but to compound capital with greater consistency and stability than any single-strategy approach can deliver: capturing structural growth across more market states, dampening volatility through authentic diversification, preserving independence from market cycles, and defending capital when others are losing it. Through this disciplined synthesis of research, technology, and execution, SkySail delivers what concentrated strategies cannot — uninterrupted multi-alpha compounding within a professionally engineered risk framework.
All values shown as non-compounding percentage returns.* Negative months in red. Annual totals are the arithmetic sum of monthly returns, shown net of fees.
*Note: Updated Methodology — Month session boundaries now close at 5:00 PM Eastern (the official futures settlement time) rather than midnight boundary. This is the industry-standard convention. An execution closing overnight at month-end now counts in its settlement month, which slightly shifts some monthly data which will now appear different than past sheets. Total return, drawdown, and every underlying execution are unchanged.
At the index's risk level (17.1% vol), NQ-GX7 delevered would still have returned 54%/yr vs the index's 24%. Levering the index to NQ-GX7's volatility yields only 45%/yr — with an estimated 48% drawdown vs NQ-GX7's 23%.
NQ-GX7's expanded architecture expresses all four alpha streams of the GRIP framework across a wider set of sub-strategies — together creating deeper diversification and smoother capital growth across every market regime.
Methodology: Sharpe ratio is computed from monthly net returns on fixed $32,500 capital, less a 4.25% annual risk-free rate (3-month T-bill), annualized ×√12. Trading day boundary is the 5:00 PM ET futures settlement close. Performance uses average-price position accounting, matching broker netting statements, net of all commissions. Returns are non-compounded on initial capital with fixed contract sizing throughout. Trade statistics are per closing deal; hold times are measured from the volume-weighted average entry time of the open position to each closing fill.
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