Foundational Flight Plan
SPY vs QQQ: One Crash Changed Everything
Why QQQ is a different animal than it was in the dot-com era, and how it really compares to SPY today.
AutoPilot Your Wealth
Foundational Flight Plan
I Tested Every Barbell Setting vs the S&P 500, Here’s What Won
The full 67-year barbell grid across every setting, measured against the S&P 500.
Foundational Flight Plan
Five Portfolios vs The 2008 Crash. Every Single One Won.
Where the barbell is introduced. How LEAPS and Treasuries fit together through a real crash and the recovery after it.
Glidepath to Retirement
The 4% Rule Has a Sequence of Returns Problem (Retirement Episode 1)
Start here. Why the textbook 4% rule fails both the bull market and the bear market retiree, and how the timing of your returns changes everything.
Foundational Flight Plan
What’s Actually in Your Bond Fund? You Don’t Own What You Think You Own.
The other half of the system. What’s really inside a bond fund, and which one belongs in the safe sleeve.
Foundational Flight Plan
I Tested Every SPY LEAPS Strike Across 67 Years. Here’s the Sweet Spot.
The companion test that finds the strike sweet spot, and why 10% in the money is the anchor.
Foundational Flight Plan
I Tested Every LEAPS Allocation Across 67 Years. The Best Answer Was Not More Leverage.
The data behind how much to allocate. The best answer was not more leverage.
Foundational Flight Plan
The LEAPS Math Nobody Shows You on YouTube
What LEAPS actually are, and the leverage-with-defined-risk math that makes the whole system work.
Foundational Flight Plan
The Strike Price Rule Everyone Gets Wrong
Options basics. The one thing about strike selection that trips up almost everyone.
Foundational Flight Plan
Why I Only Build on the S&P 500 (Not VTI, QQQ, or the Dow)
Start here. Why the S&P 500 is the foundation everything else in this system is built on.