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Rotation Strategy

A system that periodically ranks a menu of assets — sectors, countries, factors — and holds only the current leader(s), rotating as the ranking changes. Rotation applies momentum across assets rather than within one. Turnover and taxes are the practical costs; missing a leadership change is the risk.
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