Nah; it's basically trading instruments that move together (whether direct or inverse), looking for them to drift out of sync, and betting on them to come back into alignment. There's probably some FX pairing, but I'm mostly familiar with it in equities and futs.
What you are describing is a Portable Alpha portfolio (multi-strategy portfolio). In my opinion the only way you can get what you are looking for above is by adding active management components that provide uncorrelated/anti-correlated returns. This is usually done by investing in CTA's, HF's or by running a trading strategy yourself.
Thanks everyone, will refocus on this tonight. I find this interesting, however. Today the market is down big. I go to finviz.com, run their screener, and select the beta less than 0 screener option. So, this should mean, since the market is down big, the ones it screens far are up. But not, the vast majority are down even more than the market LOL.
Hey Soy, Do you have any idea of a person or organization of any type that does this technique well? Can you name one or more for us? If you want to learn how to do something, first find someone who does what you want to do and Does It Well. Have you identified something like that Soy?