The Dalio Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Bridgewater Associates, and how following works

I'm Chris, co-founder of Autopilot. The Dalio Tracker follows Bridgewater Associates' quarterly 13F filing. When the filing posts, up to 45 days after quarter end, the Portfolio updates and your account follows it. Ray Dalio has nothing to do with it, and he hasn't run Bridgewater's day-to-day for years. Here's what a 13F shows about a macro fund, which is less than you'd think, and what the tracker does with it.

One thing first, because we're an SEC-registered investment adviser and I have to say it. Autopilot is the app. The actual investment advice comes from Autopilot Advisers, LLC. If you want the full legal version of anything in here, it's on our legal page.

1) Who Dalio is and what the tracker actually follows

Dalio doesn't run this. We read what Bridgewater files and follow it after the filing becomes public. A 13F can be filed any time after quarter end, but the deadline is 45 days.

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975. Bridgewater is a macro firm. Its strategies use positions across interest rates, currencies, commodities, and equities.

Dalio stepped back from running the firm in 2022. The tracker follows Bridgewater's public filing, not Dalio. Like every institutional investment manager that meets the SEC's $100 million threshold for Section 13(f) securities, Bridgewater files a Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter end. The filer of record is Bridgewater Associates, LP.

The Dalio Tracker is a Portfolio that Autopilot Advisers built and runs from that filing. It launched on Autopilot on January 3, 2023. Bridgewater isn't paid by it, doesn't know about it, and hasn't endorsed anything.

2) What a 13F shows for Bridgewater, and what it hides

Here's the problem with following a macro fund through a 13F. A 13F only covers US-listed stocks and certain related securities. Bridgewater's edge is mostly in things a 13F doesn't cover: government bonds, currencies, commodities, and futures. So the filing shows you the equity sliver of a book that's mostly something else.

And the equity sliver is heavy on ETFs. A lot of what shows up on Bridgewater's filing is broad funds, emerging-market funds, and sector funds, because that's how a macro manager expresses a country or asset view in stocks. So the filing tells you which markets Bridgewater had equity exposure to on one day. It doesn't tell you the bond position, the currency position, or the futures position that might be the other side of that exposure.

The rest is what every 13F hides, in What's a 13F, and can you actually see what Warren Buffett bought last quarter?. No shorts, no timing, no prices, no cash. 13Fs don't have a purchase date. They only have the ending date.

3) How the tracker turns the filing into a Portfolio

What I can say without checking: the Portfolio only changes when a new filing posts, and for a macro fund the filing changes slower than the fund does, because the fast moves happen in instruments a 13F never sees.

4) How it runs in your account

You connect the brokerage you already have, pick the Dalio Tracker, and set how much follows it. Then you give Autopilot Advisers limited authority to send orders to that account. When the Portfolio changes, we send them and your broker fills them. The money stays put.

You're never trading at the same time as Bridgewater. You're following the equity part of a filing that came out weeks after quarter end.

5) What to check on the fact sheet before you follow it

The Dalio Tracker fact sheet shows what real client accounts following it did from January 3, 2023, gross and modeled net, with drawdown, volatility, a risk band, and a date on every figure. It's a live composite of follower accounts. It is not Pure Alpha's return, not All Weather's return, and not a backtest of Dalio's career.

I wrote how to read the sheet in How to read a Portfolio's track record before you follow it.

6) The limits, plainly

The filing starts you behind, sometimes by days and sometimes by months, and you're following the one part of Bridgewater's book that isn't what Bridgewater is known for. You get no bonds, no currencies, no commodities, no shorts. Position sizes aren't theirs. If what you want is Bridgewater's macro view, the filing doesn't contain it. If you want to follow the disclosed US equity exposure of Bridgewater's public filing, mostly through funds, with the delay printed on the fact sheet, that's what this is.

Frequently asked questions

Bridgewater Associates 13F

Bridgewater's quarterly 13F is public on the SEC's EDGAR site, filed within 45 days after each quarter end, and it lists the firm's long US-listed positions as of quarter end, which for a macro fund is heavy on ETFs and leaves out the bonds, currencies, commodities, and futures that make up most of what the firm does. I don't reprint holdings here because this page doesn't change. Autopilot's Dalio Tracker follows the filing after it posts.

Ray Dalio portfolio tracker

Autopilot's Dalio Tracker follows Bridgewater Associates' quarterly 13F filings after they post, in your own brokerage account. Dalio founded Bridgewater but doesn't run this Portfolio and has no relationship with Autopilot. It launched January 3, 2023 and has a public fact sheet showing what follower accounts did, gross and modeled net, with the 45-day delay disclosed as a risk.

What is Bridgewater buying?

Nobody outside the firm knows in real time. The public record is the quarterly 13F, which shows Bridgewater's long US-listed positions as of quarter end, up to 45 days later, and only the equity part of a book that's mostly bonds, currencies, and commodities. Comparing two filings shows what grew or shrank during a quarter, not when or why. Autopilot's Dalio Tracker follows the filing after it posts.

TLDR

Bridgewater files a 13F within 45 days of quarter end that shows the equity sliver of a macro book. The Dalio Tracker follows it, in your own brokerage, with the money staying put. Dalio isn't involved. Read the fact sheet and know what you're getting. If it fits, choose a Portfolio and connect your brokerage. Then give Autopilot Advisers limited authority to send orders to that account. When the Portfolio changes, we send them and your broker fills them. Depending on your plan and brokerage, you may need to confirm first. The money stays put.

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