Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin have shown that the balance sheets of financial firms that mark their assets to market grow and shrink basedonchanges to the level of short-term interest rates.
Because Hit King Inc. partners with a memorabilia dealer with shops in several casino malls, the location of his autograph table changes periodically basedon where they think the market will be strongest.
Unlike their ETF predecessors, which typically provided passive exposure to a particular index of stocks, bonds or other asset class, this fund changes its weightings (in other ETFs) basedon momentum in the market.
His model is basedon factors such as changes in bank lending, the economic growth rate and the size of the speculative-grade market (a glut of issuance tends to be an indicator of loose lending practices).