Comment by xiphias2
4 years ago
One simple example is buying 2X S&P index ETF instead of 1x. There was a great article about the Kelly optimal S&P allocation, and with all the fees included it's about 2x. Of course there's increased execution risk for the ETF itself, which needs to be estimated.
Another thing where I may look stupid from outside is that I started to take some loan against my BTC and use that to finance my lifestyle, as currently (under $100k BTC price) my estimate of the Kelly optimal BTC allocation is more than 1. This is of course a personal estimate, I don't suggest other people to do the same thing, and again there's a lot of execution risk, so I do this only with a part of my portfolio.
I have an old blog post about the subject: https://cryptm.org/posts/2019/10/04/vol.html
Optimal over my time period was 2.99x, but the expense ratio was not accounted for.