What You'll Find Here

What You’ll Find Here

The Cockpit: Real Money, Real Decisions

3 live accounts, roughly $400,000 of my own money, all running the barbell: the Captain’s account on QQQ, the First Officer’s on SPY, and the Cadet’s on QQQM. Real balances every quarter in the Cockpit View, and a walk through the accounts in every monthly market update.

Captain Cole: Retirement Model Portfolio

A $1,000,000 model portfolio running the full retirement system on an 80/20 SPY barbell, with withdrawals, guardrail checks, and the annual rebalance reported every quarter.

The Stress Test

Popular strategies and ETFs run through real data. If a strategy can’t survive the worst markets in history, you’ll see it fail here before it fails in your account.

Flight School

The Foundational Flight Plan builds the system from the ground up in 12 episodes: why the S&P 500, how LEAPS and the strike rule work, what belongs in the bond sleeve, and the barbell tested through 2008, across every setting, and inside a taxable account.

The Glide Path to Retirement covers the other end in 7 episodes: why the 4% rule breaks, the Hybrid 6% Rule with its guardrails and buy-the-crash rule, and a backtest to 1958 that follows one retiree into the 2000 crash and another into the 1982 bull market.