Advisory Alpha, LLC
"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 28 quarters, returned +5.5% per quarter — versus +2.8% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 64.3% of quarters (excess t = 1.07, not statistically significant). Its filings tell you what it bought — not what you should buy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 545 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPYG | $289M | | TRIM |
| SPYV | $280M | | TRIM |
| SCHM | $221M | | TRIM |
| SPDW | $187M | | TRIM |
| XLK | $161M | | ADD |
| SPSB | $156M | | ADD |
| SCHA | $113M | | TRIM |
| SPHY | $111M | | ADD |
| XLF | $94M | | ADD |
| SRLN | $93M | | ADD |
| VCIT | $83M | | ADD |
| VGSH | $71M | | TRIM |
| SPEM | $62M | | ADD |
| XLI | $56M | | TRIM |
| XLV | $55M | | HOLD |
| SPMB | $49M | | TRIM |
| XLY | $44M | | ADD |
| ICVT | $42M | | TRIM |
| SCHP | $42M | | ADD |
| VSS | $42M | | TRIM |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry 47 days after quarter-end — the first day the public could act on the filing. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.