VTM doesn't run one strategy and hope. It reads current market conditions and decides which of its strategies deserve capital right now — expanding what's working, standing down what isn't, before you have to ask.
A short walkthrough of how the regime engine works, why nine strategies cover more ground than one, and what you're actually paying for at each tier.
A trend strategy is brilliant in a trend and dangerous in a chop. A hedge is dead weight in a rally and the only thing that matters in a crash. VTM was built around that asymmetry, not around any one strategy being "the best one."
Every session, VTM reads the broad market's trend, volatility, and drawdown state and settles on a regime — bull, neutral, bear, or crisis — before any strategy is asked to act.
Each strategy has a standing, pre-declared posture for every regime — full size, reduced, or stood down entirely. Nothing gets discovered to be wrong in real time; the response was decided in advance.
A portfolio-level risk layer sits above every individual strategy, watching total exposure and drawdown across all of them together — the failure mode a single strategy can never see coming from inside itself.
VTM is deliberately capped at nine. Each one earns its place by covering a condition or a time horizon the others don't — not by chasing a marginally better version of one already on the roster. Exact entry/exit logic isn't published; what matters to you is the role each one plays.
The longest-running strategy in the roster — a systematic trend engine built to ride sustained moves rather than predict tops and bottoms.
Buys controlled pullbacks inside an otherwise healthy uptrend and exits as price recovers — a counterweight to pure trend-following.
Rotates between growth exposure and gold depending on which one the prevailing trend actually favors — a hedge that adjusts itself.
Harvests same-day options premium on a major index — structurally active every trading day the market's calm enough to support it.
Built for the downturn, not despite it — this is the one strategy designed to put capital to work specifically when markets turn against everything else.
Targets individual, high-beta names breaking down under real bear-market pressure — a name-by-name complement to the broader hedge above.
A diversified, long-or-short trend basket spanning multiple asset classes — the one strategy on the roster with a genuine case for every single regime, crisis included.
Fades small, thinly-traded names that spike early and tend to give the move back before the close — a same-day, short-side read on overextension.
The mirror image of Momentum Fade — catches the early spikes that genuinely continue, rather than betting they'll fail.
Every strategy in VTM is active in some regimes and stands down in others by design — that's what keeps any one of them from being reckless. It also means four strategies, however well chosen, will always leave part of the map uncovered.
| Strategy | Bull | Neutral | Bear | Crisis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LFCM | ||||
| RSI Mean Reversion | ||||
| QQQ/GLD Trend Switch | ||||
| 0DTE | ||||
| Defensive Put Hedge | ||||
| Bear Market Puts | ||||
| Donchian Breakout | ||||
| Momentum Fade | ||||
| Momentum Breakout |
A customer on the highlighted base four — LFCM, RSI, QQQ/GLD, 0DTE — has strong Bull and Neutral coverage, but every one of those strategies stands down or scales back the moment markets turn. In a real Bear or Crisis regime, that account goes quiet exactly when protection matters most. Adding Defensive Put Hedge or Donchian Breakout is what fills that specific gap — not "more strategies for the sake of more," but coverage for the one condition the base four can't reach.
No, never. VTM finds a setup and shows it to you — entry, stop, target, and the regime reasoning behind it. You decide whether to act on it, and you execute it yourself in your own brokerage account. VTM never has access to your account and never places an order on your behalf.
No. Every subscriber to a given strategy sees the same signal — it isn't tailored to your personal finances, risk tolerance, or holdings. Think of it closer to a published research feed than a financial advisor. It isn't a substitute for professional advice about your specific situation.
The regime dashboard — live classification of current market conditions and each strategy's status (full size, reduced, or standing down). No trade signals. It's the same reasoning every paid tier sees too; the free tier just stops short of the trade lists.
Yes. VTM surfaces what it finds — executing it requires an account of your own with whatever broker you use.
Yes. Swap strategies within your Base four or adjust your add-ons as your account and preferences change.
Running every strategy well takes real capital — adding more without limit would keep raising the account size needed to meaningfully participate. Nine was chosen for coverage without needing more capital than a smaller account can actually put to work.
VTM never places a trade for you. Every signal it finds is shown to you, with the regime reasoning behind it — you decide what to act on. Illustrative pricing below; final numbers TBD.
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