Space & Satellite Economy

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Bets on space and defense companies when momentum looks positive, parks money safely when it doesn't.

byAmaltash Advisors LLC

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The idea

Bets on space and defense companies when momentum looks positive, parks money safely when it doesn't.

pace is no longer a government science project — it's a $630 billion commercial economy growing 9% annually, and the companies building it are winning real contracts today. Rocket Lab just became the second company in history to routinely land and reuse orbital rockets, launching at a pace that rivals early SpaceX. AST SpaceMobile is deploying the first direct-to-smartphone satellite network, turning every cell phone on Earth into a satellite phone without new hardware. Planet Labs images the entire Earth daily for agriculture, insurance, and intelligence customers. Meanwhile, the defense side is accelerating: the Pentagon's $30B+ annual space budget funds missile warning satellites, GPS resilience, and hypersonic tracking — and it's shifting from legacy primes to commercial providers who launch faster and cheaper. Lockheed and Northrop still anchor the heavy defense programs, but Kratos builds the autonomous drones and satellite ground systems at a fraction of the cost. This strategy spans the full space value chain: launch vehicles putting payloads in orbit, satellite operators monetizing the data and connectivity, and defense contractors securing the domain. When space and defense spending momentum is strong, it rides the trend. When it fades, gold and Treasuries protect capital until the next launch window opens.

Design

How it works

  1. Buys space/satellite/defense stocks when technical signals turn bullish

  2. Sells and moves to safe bonds when signals fade or losses hit limits

  3. Waits for next buy signal, then re-enters the trade

  4. Protects capital between trades with Treasury bonds

Conditions

Where it works, and where it doesn't

Every strategy is built for a particular kind of market. These are the conditions this one is designed around — and the ones it is not.

Built for

  • When space/defense spending is accelerating and stock prices climb steadily
  • During periods of strong investor interest in satellite and rocket companies
  • When momentum indicators align with upward price movement
  • After major contract wins or successful launches boost sector confidence

Not built for

  • When the entire market crashes suddenly and drags space stocks down with it
  • During long sideways periods where prices bounce around without clear direction
  • When defense budgets get cut or space projects face delays and uncertainty
  • When momentum fades but prices haven't fallen enough to trigger exit signals

The Simulation Lab

Ten bad markets, before your money is in one.

Almost anything looks good in a rising market. That is not a test. So we put the strategies listed here through the same ten bad markets, and this one has been through them. They are stretches of real market history, with names and dates: the 2022 slump, the COVID crash, a year that went nowhere. We picked them before this strategy existed.

Two of them are below. Each one shows our drawing of what that market looked like, and the rules this strategy follows when a market like it turns up. None of this is a score. What actually happened to the strategy is in your dashboard, not on this page.

10bad markets, picked before this strategy existed
8 of 10can run on the real trading days of the time they name
2 of 10we model ourselves, and we mark them as modelled
26 Aug 2026when we last ran this strategy through them

When markets fall

The Christmas 2018 Scare

A sudden drop, then a full recovery within months.

our model of the S&P 500 around Sep 2018–Apr 2019falls about 20% at its worst, then ends about 6% above where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
20 Sep 2018 – 23 Apr 2019
What the index did
roughly flat
How we run it
Real trading days

A 20% fall into Christmas Eve 2018 on tightening fears, then a recovery to a new all-time high within four months. Anything that sold near the low and waited for confirmation missed it.

The rules this strategy follows here

  1. 1
    What it holds

    15 companies.

  2. 2
    When it sells

    One of them drops 20% to 35% below the price it was bought at.

  3. 3
    What it does

    It sells that one. The rest carry on.

On two days here, the market opened far below where it closed the day before.

An order set to sell at 20% to 35% down can end up selling far below that. If the market opens below that price, there is no chance to sell at it. That is what this market is here to show, and why we keep it in the set.

When markets go nowhere

The Year That Went Nowhere

2015 swung up and down all year and finished where it started.

our model of the S&P 500 around 2015swings about 9% either way, and ends about 1% above where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015
What the index did
roughly flat
How we run it
Our model of it

A year that ended where it began, after swinging repeatedly in between — including a 12% drop in August when China devalued its currency, fully recovered by November.

The rules this strategy follows here

  1. 1
    What it holds

    15 companies.

  2. 2
    When it sells

    One of them drops 20% to 35% below the price it was bought at.

  3. 3
    What it does

    It sells that one. The rest carry on.

No overnight drops in this market.

A market that ends where it started still charges you for every trade made inside it. This is where the cost of trading adds up fastest. That is why it sits in the set right next to the crash.

When markets go nowhere

The Wild Swings of Late 2022

Violent rallies and sharp drops, ending roughly flat.

our model of the S&P 500 around Jun–Dec 2022swings about 13% either way, and ends about 2% below where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
30 Jun – 30 Dec 2022
What the index did
1.4% higher

When markets go nowhere

The Magnificent Seven Year

A handful of big names carried 2023; most stocks didn’t.

our model of the S&P 500 vs its equal-weighted twin around 2023ends about 8% above where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500 vs its equal-weighted twin
The real dates
3 Jan – 29 Dec 2023
What the index did
rose 24.2%

Sign in to see how this strategy did in each one.

The results open in your dashboard, where we can explain what they mean for you. They are simulated results, so we never show them here.

Open the stress tests

trade.amaltash.com/marketplace/space-satellite-economy?tab=stress

All ten markets

  • The Bull Run of 2016–17When markets rise · modelled Tested
  • The 2020 Tech BoomWhen markets rise Tested
  • The 2022 SlumpWhen markets fall Tested
  • The COVID CrashWhen markets fall Tested
  • The Christmas 2018 ScareWhen markets fall · shown above Tested
  • The Year That Went NowhereWhen markets go nowhere · modelled · shown above Tested
  • The Wild Swings of Late 2022When markets go nowhere · shown above Tested
  • The Quiet YearWhen markets rise Tested
  • The Magnificent Seven YearWhen markets go nowhere · shown above Tested
  • When Tech Handed Over to OilWhen markets go nowhere Tested

These ten are the whole set. We picked them for the damage they did — the fastest crash on record, a year that went nowhere, a grind that punished every rally — not for how they make anything look.

8 of these 10 can run on the real trading days of the time they name. We model the other 2 — The Bull Run of 2016–17 and The Year That Went Nowhere. A strategy needs a stretch of history to warm up on before a test starts, and our price data does not go back far enough to give these that. So we built stand-ins that behave like those years, rather than replays of them. A modelled market is not a forecast, and it is not what would have happened. The shapes drawn above are our models of those markets — never this strategy — and they have no scale. The dates and index moves next to each one are the real figures for the period it is modelled on. Nothing on this page says how any strategy did in these tests.

Holdings

What it holds

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