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SARATOGA ADVANTAGE TRUST

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Jul. 13, 2018

Prospectus Date

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Nov. 30, 2017

Prospectus [Line Items]

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Supplement [Text Block]

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JAMES ALPHA TOTAL HEDGE PORTFOLIO

a series of THE SARATOGA ADVANTAGE TRUST

CLASS I SHARES	(Ticker: JTHIX)
CLASS A SHARES	(Ticker: JTHAX)
CLASS C SHARES	(Ticker: JTHCX)

Supplement dated July 13, 2018 to the Prospectus dated March 30, 2018 (the “Prospectus”)

This supplement updates and supersedes any contrary information contained in the Prospectus.

Reference is made to the sections entitled “Principal Investment Strategies.” beginning on pages 2 and 9 of the Prospectus. The last sentence in the fifth paragraph and in the sixth paragraph under each of these sections, respectively, is deleted in its entirety. The paragraphs now read:

In constructing the Portfolio’s investments, the Manager employs proprietary techniques and models to evaluate the drivers of performance of private funds that utilize hedged equity, event driven, macro and relative value strategies. The Manager then identifies investments that it believes have similar drivers of performance to attempt to produce returns that correlate with, but are not identical to, the returns of the private funds tracked by the Manager. The Manager then determines the appropriate percentage that each particular investment strategy should represent of the entire Portfolio and weights the exposure to that investment strategy accordingly. The private fund returns on which the Manager’s models are based are pulled from various sources and do not represent the returns of the entire private fund universe. The private fund returns tracked by the Manager, the factors driving those returns and the percentage weightings assigned by the Manager to each investment strategy are all expected to change over time.

Please retain this supplement for future reference.

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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The Portfolio seeks to achieve its investment objective by attempting to outperform the returns of a variety of investment strategies offered by private funds. The private fund investment strategies the returns of which the Portfolio will seek to outperform include “hedged equity,” “event driven,” “macro,” and “relative value” strategies.

• A hedged equity investment strategy typically involves establishing both long and short positions in equity or equity-linked instruments. A hedged equity strategy also may seek to manage risk by adopting “top-down” constraints on leverage, limits on net market exposure, net regional exposure and net sector exposure, position size limits, position stop-loss limits and parameters relating to the number of its positions. The Portfolio will seek to outperform the returns of various hedged equity investment strategies, such as, among others, equity market neutral, fundamental growth, fundamental value, quantitative directional strategies, short bias, and sectors such as energy, materials, technology, and healthcare.

• Event driven investment strategies seek to profit from investing in securities of companies on the basis that a specific event or catalyst will affect future pricing. For example, merger arbitrage strategies seek to capitalize on price discrepancies and returns generated by a corporate transaction. Event driven investment strategies may purchase the common stock of a company being acquired and short the common stock of the acquirer in expectation of profiting from the price differential as a result of or in expectation of the consummation of the merger. The Portfolio will seek to outperform the returns of various event driven investment strategies, such as, among others, activist strategies, credit arbitrage, distressed investing, restructuring strategies and merger arbitrage.

• Macro based strategies aim to exploit macro-economic imbalances across the globe. Macro based strategies may be implemented through a broad range of asset classes including, but not limited to, equities, fixed income, currency and commodities. The Portfolio will seek to outperform the returns of various macro based investment strategies, such as, among others, active trading, commodity, currency, discretionary thematic, systematic diversified and multi-strategy.

• Relative value strategies seek to identify and capitalize on valuation discrepancies between related financial instruments rather than on the direction of the general market. The Portfolio will seek to outperform the returns of various fixed income relative value strategies, such as, among others, asset-backed, master limited partnership (“MLP”), real estate, convertible arbitrage, corporate and sovereign strategies, as well as volatility investment strategies.

The Portfolio will seek to outperform the returns of private fund investment strategies by investing in a variety of asset classes, including global equities, global fixed income securities, currencies, commodities and rates, such as interest rates and measures of volatility.

The Portfolio expects to gain exposure to these asset classes primarily through exchange-traded products such as exchange-traded notes (“ETNs”), exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and mutual funds, although the Portfolio may invest directly in currencies, equities and fixed income securities. The Portfolio also expects to invest in derivative instruments to gain exposure to one or more asset classes, individual investments or investment strategies. The derivatives instruments that may be utilized by the Portfolio include options, futures, options on futures, forward contracts and swaps. Derivatives may also be used to generate leverage, seek to profit from the underlying asset’s price fluctuations, or hedge the Portfolio’s exposure to an asset class, individual investment or group of investments.

The Portfolio’s equity exposure may include exposure to both U.S. and non-U.S. common stocks and preferred stocks of any size market capitalization. The Portfolio’s fixed income exposure may include exposure to securities issued by governments, government-related entities or public and private companies. The Portfolio may seek exposure to fixed income instruments that are rated below investment grade (i.e., junk bonds), particularly in seeking to outperform the returns of certain private fund strategies such as distressed investing. The types of swaps in which the Portfolio may invest include, among others, total return, index, interest rate, credit default and volatility swaps. The Portfolio may also invest in swaps having payments linked to the returns of indices, individual securities or pooled investment vehicles, including limited partnerships, limited liability companies, offshore corporations and commodity pools (collectively, “Underlying Pools”). There is no limit on the Portfolio’s exposure to foreign companies, foreign governments or foreign currencies, which may include exposure to emerging markets.

In constructing the Portfolio’s investments, the Manager employs proprietary techniques and models to evaluate the drivers of performance of private funds that utilize hedged equity, event driven, macro and relative value strategies. The Manager then identifies investments that it believes have similar drivers of performance to attempt to produce returns that correlate with, but are not identical to, the returns of the private funds tracked by the Manager. The Manager then determines the appropriate percentage that each particular investment strategy should represent of the entire Portfolio and weights the exposure to that investment strategy accordingly. The private fund returns on which the Manager’s models are based are pulled from various sources and do not represent the returns of the entire private fund universe. The private fund returns tracked by the Manager, the factors driving those returns and the percentage weightings assigned by the Manager to each investment strategy are all expected to change over time.

Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio is expected to invest in a combination of over 125 ETFs, ETNs, currencies, swaps and other derivatives, and mutual funds.

The Portfolio may invest up to 25% of its total assets in a wholly-owned and controlled Cayman Islands subsidiary (the “Subsidiary”) to gain exposure to certain commodity-linked investments such as commodity futures, options and swap contracts. The commodity investments will be focused in four sectors of the commodities market: energy, precious metals, industrial metals and agricultural/livestock. The Portfolio may hold investments with commodity exposure outside of the Subsidiary and, therefore, it is possible the Portfolio’s exposure to commodities could exceed 25%. The Subsidiary may also hold cash, money market instruments, including affiliated and unaffiliated money market funds and other fixed income instruments to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. Investments in the Subsidiary are intended to provide the Portfolio with exposure to commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax requirements that apply to the Portfolio. The investment policies of the Subsidiary are the same as the investment policies of this sleeve of the Portfolio. The Subsidiary is subject to substantially the same investment restrictions and limitations, including asset coverage requirements, as are applicable to this sleeve of the Portfolio and will follow substantially the same compliance policies and procedures as the Portfolio, to the extent they are applicable. The Portfolio will always own 100% of the Subsidiary’s interests.