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Equities
Real-time equity index prices and annualized returns across major regions. Auto-refreshes every 60 seconds.
Global equities indexesLive
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US Treasury benchmark, investment-grade and high-yield corporate spreads, emerging-market debt, and 13 sovereign 10Y yields with real-yield adjustments.
Bond market yieldsFRED
ICE BofA indices, effective yield
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ETF & Stock Compare
Put any few ETFs or stocks side by side - fees, returns, risk and yield, all in one view. Pick 2 to 4 to compare.
Build comparison0 of 4 columns
Start typing, then pick from the list - searches the entire universe of listed ETFs & stocks by ticker or name. Curated names load instantly; any other ticker pulls its live data when you add it.
Side-by-side comparison
Add at least one instrument to start comparing.
Growth of $10,000 over the past 10 yearsDividends reinvested
What this shows. How $10,000 would have grown over the past ~10 years in each fund, based on its historical returns and rescaled so every fund starts at $10,000. It is backward-looking - a record of what already happened, not a forecast of future returns and not a forward projection. The dips are real drawdowns along the way; the Max drawdown row above is the single deepest peak-to-trough fall over the period (e.g. −33% means the balance fell to about $6,700 from its prior high before recovering). Dividends reinvested, before tax; representative for the built-in names and computed from actual history for any ticker you add.
Every instrument is computed live from its actual dividend-adjusted price history: price, trailing and since-inception returns, max drawdown, beta, Sharpe, a growth-of-$10k path, and dividend yield from the real distributions paid over the last 12 months. All returns are total returns - dividends and distributions reinvested - which is why a fund that pays large cash distributions (a managed-futures ETF, say) can far outrun its own price chart. Fund-only fields such as expense ratio show for ETFs. "Best" highlights the most favourable value in each row across the selected instruments (lowest fee; highest return, yield or Sharpe; smallest drawdown). Growth of $10,000 is a hypothetical illustration, before tax - not a live execution quote, so verify numbers with your broker before trading.
Hedge Fund Tracker
The track records of the most famous hedge-fund managers - returns, assets, and whether they have actually beaten the market.
Performance - funds with disclosed track records
Since-inception annualized return vs S&P 500vs ~10.5%/yr
Legendary & now-private fundsReference
These managers are too secretive, closed, or converted to family offices to publish reliable year-by-year returns - shown as historical profiles, not in the table above.
About these numbers. Hedge funds aren't required to disclose returns, so everything here except Pershing Square (publicly listed, audited NAV) is compiled from press reporting - LCH Investments annual manager rankings (via the Financial Times / Institutional Investor), Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Hedgeweek, fund investor letters, and Gregory Zuckerman's The Man Who Solved the Market for Renaissance. AUM and returns are point-in-time, approximate and may be revised. Trailing periods are annualized through each fund's most recently reported year - not live - so a brokerage quote will differ: Pershing Square rows are fund NAV performance, while the listed shares (PSH / PSHZF) trade daily at a discount to NAV and reflect the current year's moves. "n/d" = not disclosed; "Beats S&P?" compares since-inception annualized return to the S&P 500's long-run ~10.5%/yr total return. Not investment advice.
Crypto
Live spot prices for the top digital assets by market capitalization. Annualized returns computed from earliest available price.
Top 10 by market capLive
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Commodities
Live spot prices for the most-traded commodities. Annualized returns over 1Y, 5Y, 10Y and max available history.
Top commoditiesLive
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US Economy
Growth, inflation, employment, rates, government debt, trade balance, and deficit - live from FRED.
Macro health heatmapFRED
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US Treasuries yield curveLive
FOMC dot plot
Rate expectationsLive
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Implied rates from CME 30-day Fed Funds futures, priced continuously by the market. Odds compare each meeting’s implied step against a standard 0.25pp move.
US GDPFRED
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GDP growthFRED
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InflationFRED
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Core CPI -
Everyday inflation - the prices you actually payFRED
Groceries, gasoline, electricity and rent, each year-over-year, versus headline CPI (the gray line). When the colored lines run above the gray one, real life is inflating faster than the official average.
Unofficial inflation - Truflation daily indexLive
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An independent daily index built from live commercial price data, not the BLS survey. When Truflation runs well below the official CPI, the official number usually drifts down toward it over the following months (and vice versa) - the gap is the signal.
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US populationFRED
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Labor market - supply, demand & priceFRED
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Median household incomePrice
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Loan delinquency ratesFRED
Share of balances 30+ days past due at all US commercial banks, by loan type (updated quarterly). Rising delinquencies are an early sign of household stress. Heads up: this is the all-banks 30+ day rate (cards run ~3%). The 7-8% figures in the headlines are a different cut - smaller banks outside the top 100, or the NY Fed's 90+ day "serious delinquency" transition.
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Annualized share of balances newly rolling into 90+ days past due, by loan type, quarterly since 2003.
Share of household debt in any stage of delinquencyNY Fed · Q1 2026
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Money supply & liquidityFRED
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Fed balance sheetQE / QT
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Government financesFRED
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Debt / GDPStock
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Federal deficitGap
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Personal savings rateFRED
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Federal spending by categoryLive
Private capital dry powderTop 5 public PEas of Q1 2026
Uncalled committed capital at the largest publicly-traded private-equity managers - the closest free proxy for total US PE dry powder. Sum of these five firms represents ~50-60% of the industry.
BX · Blackstone
$200B
vs Q4: +16%
KKR
$115B
vs Q4: +6%
APO · Apollo
$73B
vs Q4: +9%
BAM · Brookfield
$111B
vs Q4: +1%
ARES · Ares
$156B
vs Q4: +64%
Top 5 combined
$655B
~50-60% of total US private-market dry powder (Bain estimates the industry total at ~$2.5T including all PE/VC/infrastructure)
Source: each firm's most recent quarterly disclosures (uncalled commitments / "available capital"); figures approximate and definitions vary slightly by firm (e.g. Ares' "available capital" spans its credit franchises). Updated quarterly. Industry context: Bain & Co Global Private Equity Report.
Sources: live indicators from FRED. Serious-delinquency and household-debt delinquency charts: NY Fed Household Debt & Credit report, 2026 Q1, released May 2026 (Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax), updated with each quarterly report - the student-loan figure is a four-quarter moving sum, and "delinquent" = 100% minus the share of balances current; the 30+ day delinquency charts are live from FRED. Federal spending by category: live from the US Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS), figures rounded to the nearest billion; FYTD = fiscal-year-to-date, and the US fiscal year runs Oct 1 to Sep 30.
Global Economy
GDP share by country and global economic indicators. (FX pairs moved to the dedicated Foreign Exchange page.)
GDP by countryFRED + IMF
Nominal GDP in current US dollars, with each country's share of the ~$110T world total.
World GDPFRED + IMF WEO
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Global GDP, in $ trillions. Historical actuals: World Bank via FRED (~12-month lag). Current year + forecasts: IMF World Economic Outlook (tagged "IMF est.").
Energy dashboard - nuclear, solar, wind, petroleumIEA / EIA 2024
Global primary energy by category2024
Energy consumption by country2024
Living standards across countriesAnnual data
Purchasing power per person (PPP)IMF WEO Oct 2025
Labor productivity ($ per hour worked)OECD 2024
Quality of life & development (UN Human Development Index)UNDP HDR 2025 (2023 data)
Sources: GDP and liquidity data live from FRED and the IMF World Economic Outlook. Energy dashboard: IEA World Energy Outlook 2024, EIA International Energy Statistics, and BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2024 (figures rounded; updated annually). Living standards: IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2025 (GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, 2025, international dollars); OECD Productivity Statistics, 2024 (GDP per hour worked, PPP); UNDP Human Development Report 2025 (HDI for 2023) - figures rounded, refreshed annually.
US Real Estate Tracker
Home prices, housing activity, and mortgage rates from FRED. CRE cap rates from industry estimates.
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30Y mortgage rateFRED
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Median sale priceFRED
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Median listing priceFRED
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Median listing (asking) price of active US listings, monthly since 2016 - the earliest read on where sellers think prices are heading.
Housing starts & permitsFRED
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Thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate. Permits (gold) lead starts (blue) by 1–2 months - when gold turns down before blue, construction is rolling over.
Months of supplyFRED
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How long inventory would last at current sales pace.
Seller's mkt <4 moBalanced 4–6 moBuyer's mkt >6 mo
Median days on marketVelocity
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Median days a listing sits before going under contract. Lower = faster market.
CRE cap ratesCBRE
Source: CBRE U.S. Cap Rate Survey, H2 2025 · Updated 2026-01
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Portfolio Backtester & X-Ray
Backtest any mix of stocks or ETFs against the S&P 500. Dividends, rebalancing and recurring cashflows included. Every run also x-rays the portfolio: sector mix, hidden overlap, blended fee, real diversification.
Portfolio builder
ON
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PortfolioS&P 500
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Risk & performance
Annual returns
PortfolioS&P 500
Rolling 3-year return
PortfolioS&P 500
Needs at least 3.5 years of overlapping data - extend the time horizon to see rolling returns.
Yearly returns by asset
Worst drawdowns
Efficient frontier & optimizer
Run a backtest with 2+ holdings first, then click Build frontier: 6,000 random weight combinations of your assets are tested over the same window. Every gray dot is one portfolio - hover any dot or marker to see its exact mix, CAGR and volatility. Suggested allocations (max Sharpe, minimum volatility, risk parity, equal weight) appear below - one click applies them to the builder.
X-ray: what you actually own
Looking inside the funds you just backtested: the true sector mix, the positions hiding in more than one fund, and the fee you really pay.
True sector exposure
Biggest underlying positions
Asset mix
Do your holdings actually diversify each other?-
US Economic Regime Detector
Growth × inflation framework inspired by Ray Dalio's macro regime model. Classifies the current US environment from live FRED data and shows which asset classes historically perform best.
Current regimeLive
Detecting...
Analyzing GDP growth and CPI inflation trends from FRED data.
GDP growth -
CPI inflation -
Regime classification & what to hold
The four regimes are the combinations of the growth and inflation backdrop - e.g. "growth+ · inflation−" means growth running above trend while inflation falls. Winners are the assets that have historically outperformed in that regime; losers are the ones that tend to lag.
Goldilocksgrowth+ · inflation−
WinnersEquities, credit, growth stocks
LosersGold, commodities, cash
Reflationgrowth+ · inflation+
WinnersCommodities, value, TIPS, EM
LosersLong-duration bonds
Deflationgrowth− · inflation−
WinnersTreasuries, cash, quality bonds
LosersEquities, commodities, credit
Stagflationgrowth− · inflation+
WinnersGold, TIPS, commodities, cash
LosersEquities, long bonds, credit
+ scoring methodology
Growth axis
Input: GDP YoY (GDPC1)
Rule: > 2% → growth+ · ≤ 2% → growth−
Score:tanh((GDP − 2) / 4)
Inflation axis
Input: CPI YoY (CPIAUCSL)
Rule: > 2.5% → inflation+ · ≤ 2.5% → inflation−
Score:tanh((CPI − 2.5) / 3)
Regime history (1970–present)FRED
GoldilocksReflationDeflationStagflation
Regime rotation backtestLive
Regime rotation- applies the live detector. Rebalances quarterly using last quarter's regime call, mirroring what an investor could have actually done in real time.
Perfect foresight- cheats. Rebalances using next quarter's regime call as if you already knew it (impossible in practice - shown as the theoretical ceiling the detector could reach).
S&P 500 buy & hold- the passive benchmark. 100% S&P 500 through the full period, no decisions.
Asset mix per regime
Goldilocks
STOCKS 50%
BONDS 50%
Reflation
STOCKS 50%
COMMOD 50%
Deflation
BONDS 50%
CASH 50%
Stagflation
COMMOD 50%
CASH 50%
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Growth vs inflation signalsFRED
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Recession Dodge StrategyAlternative
An alternative detector that turns one forward-looking signal, the Chicago Fed's National Financial Conditions Index (NFCI), into a simple binary call: stay fully invested when financial conditions are loose, step aside to cash when they tighten. Conditions are loose about 71% of the time, so the strategy is usually invested and its whole edge comes from sitting out the few real credit-stress windows (2008, briefly 2020 and 2022) that tend to lead major drawdowns by a few weeks. Risk-on / risk-off, no four-quadrant rotation.
In the market
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Hold cash
Current Recession Dodge call
Detecting…
Reading the latest NFCI to decide: stay invested or hold cash.
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Stay invested
Input: Chicago Fed NFCI (NFCI)
Rule: NFCI ≤ 0 (loose conditions) → hold the S&P 500
Idea: credit and markets are calm - own the risk asset
Idea: credit stress leads drawdowns - dodge it in T-bills
Series: NFCI · S&P 500 total return · 3-month T-bill (cash). Backtest window starts when NFCI begins (≈ 1971). Binary risk-on / risk-off: 100% S&P when NFCI ≤ 0, 100% cash when NFCI > 0, rebalanced quarterly on the prior quarter's reading.
Global Economic Calendar
The major releases outside the US: euro-area CPI and GDP, ECB, BoE and BoJ decisions, UK CPI, China PMI and GDP. Times in ET, with impact ratings. Central-bank dates follow each bank’s published schedule.
Impact: High Medium LowET
Building calendar…
Schedule: each release's standard pattern (euro-area flash CPI at month-end, UK CPI mid-month, China PMI on the month's last day) plus the published 2026 meeting calendars of the ECB, Bank of England and Bank of Japan. Previous prints and actuals: live from each region's official statistical source - the ECB Data Portal (euro-area and German inflation, euro-area unemployment and GDP), the UK Office for National Statistics (UK CPI, unemployment and retail sales) and FRED (ECB deposit rate). A value appears only once the source has published the event's own reference period, so a release the source hasn't posted yet shows '-' rather than an older number. Releases whose official sources publish too slowly for a live feed show schedule only. Surprise = the change versus the prior print, in percent (percentage points for series that are themselves percentages). Times in ET - overnight Asian releases appear the ET evening before their local morning.
US Economic Calendar
Every major US release: payrolls, CPI, PCE, FOMC, GDP, ISM, jobless claims and more. Times in ET, impact ratings, and the prior print live from FRED. Dates are recurring estimates.
Impact: High Medium LowET
Building calendar…
Schedule: each indicator's standard release pattern (CPI mid-month, jobs report the first Friday, FOMC eight times a year). Previous prints and actuals: live from FRED. Surprise = the change versus the prior print, in percent - shown as percentage points (pp) for series that are themselves percentages. Times in ET.
Recession Risk Calculator
Odds of a US recession (the kind the NBER declares) in the next 12 months. Built from 7 leading indicators, each showing its real hit rate. For market-drawdown risk, see Crash Risk.
US economic recession probability
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Indicator scorecardFRED · LIVE
Yield curve inversion historyFRED
Shaded red regions show when the 10Y-2Y Treasury spread went negative (inverted). Every one of those windows since 1969 preceded a recession, except the 2022-24 period which has so far only produced slowing growth.
Crash Risk Calculator
Chance of a big market drawdown, from 6 strictly-leading indicators. Each shows the hit rate it actually earned. For economic-recession risk, see Recession Risk.
US drawdown probability
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CheapFairBubble
Reading live valuation metrics against their 30-year history…
Indicator scorecardShiller · FRED · LIVE
Composite probability historyLive
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Composite drawdown probability over time, recomputed each month from the same threshold table the live gauge uses. Spikes above 60% lined up with 1929, 1973, 2000, 2007–08, 2020, 2022 and 2025–26; dips below 25% lined up with 1982 and 2009. Months Shiller's dataset hasn't finalized yet use the latest published monthly CAPE / P/E / dividend-yield readings, so the newest data points match the freshest available values.
Bubble meterLive
A different question from the drawdown gauge above: not "will the market fall?" but "does today look like a bubble?" Inspired by Ray Dalio's six classic bubble questions: are prices high relative to traditional measures, are prices counting on unsustainable growth, are new buyers flooding in, is sentiment broadly bullish, are purchases being financed with leverage, and is corporate investment running at boom levels. Each gauge is scored 0–100 against its own full history and the dial averages the six. Past bubble peaks (1929, 2000, 2021) pushed most gauges into their top deciles; washed-out bottoms (1982, 2009) sat near the floor. Click any gauge for what it measures and how.
Bubbliness
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DepressedFairBubble
Scoring the six bubble questions against their full history…
Compound Interest
Change any value and the rest adjust automatically. Edit the final balance to solve backwards for the initial investment.
A live feed of stock-trade disclosures from the US Senate and House. Plus profiles of the most-watched traders and their known holdings.
Latest disclosed tradesLive · all of Congress
Members must disclose trades within 45 days (STOCK Act), so the transaction date is always older than the filing date. Click any ticker for its chart.
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Most-watched congressional traders
Curated profiles of the most-followed traders in Congress - known holdings and headline trades per member (profiles reviewed periodically; the live feed above always has the newest filings). Click any ticker for its chart.
Earnings & IPO Calendar
The week ahead for US equities. Who reports earnings, with consensus EPS, and which IPOs are coming. Spot volatility events before they hit your holdings.
Upcoming earningsNext 14 days
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Upcoming IPOsNext 30 days
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Exchange
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Shares
Live earnings-consensus and IPO-schedule data. Estimates and IPO terms are revised often and can be withdrawn - confirm against the company's filings before trading. "When" is Pre-mkt (before the open), After close, or Midday.
Rental Property Analyzer
Institutional-style underwriting for a single rental. Cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR and IRR, plus a full value-add story. Year-by-year cash flows included.
Core property assumptionsSteady-state
FinancingDebt & equity
Value-add assumptionsRenovation & capex
The renovation/stabilization ramp and capital spend. Leave at defaults (or set current = renovated = stabilized rent and capex to 0) for a straightforward buy-and-hold.
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Mortgage Calculator
Compare loan terms, see amortization schedules, and calculate savings from extra payments.
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Buy vs Rent Property Calculator
Buy a home, or rent the same place and invest the difference? Enter one property’s real numbers. See who comes out ahead, year by year.
▸How this works
Use the same property for both sides - the home's listing price on the buy side, its asking rent on the rent side. Sally buys the home; Jack rents the very same place. Both start with the same savings and earn the same monthly income, so it's a true apples-to-apples comparison.
Sally deploys her down payment plus closing costs into the home and keeps the rest invested. She pays mortgage P&I plus property taxes, insurance, HOA, and maintenance every month. Jack invests his entire starting savings and pays the asking rent each month.
Each month both characters take their identical income, pay their housing cost, and invest the leftover at your chosen return rate (e.g. S&P 500 ~8% long-run). End-of-horizon net worth = invested portfolio (both) + home equity (Sally only).
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Buy vs Lease Car Calculator
Donald pays cash, Frank finances, Nancy rolls leases - identical income, savings and hold period. Each invests whatever is left after car costs. Ending net worth = portfolio + car equity.
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FIRE & Retirement Calculator
When can you reach financial independence? Enter what you have, what you save, and what you’ll spend. You get your FIRE year on the 4% rule, plus Coast FIRE - all in today’s dollars.
FIRE = a portfolio big enough to cover your living costs for good. Your target is 25× your annual spending (the 4% rule). The tabs below pressure-test it.
FIRE styleshortcuts - or just type your own spending below
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All figures are in today's dollars, so use a real (after-inflation) return - the long-run real return of a 100% stock portfolio has been ~7%, a 60/40 ~5%. The 4% rule (25× spending) comes from the Trinity study and assumes a ~30-year retirement; longer retirements or early retirement argue for 3.25–3.5%. Coast FIRE assumes a target retirement age of 65 and no further contributions. Excludes Social Security, pensions and taxes on withdrawals.
Monte Carlo Retirement Simulator
One average return hides the risk. This runs 1,000 randomized market paths through your plan. You see the full fan of outcomes - and the odds your money lasts.
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Each of 1,000 paths draws an independent annual return from a normal distribution with your mean and volatility, compounding the balance while adding contributions before retirement and subtracting spending after. "Chance money lasts" is the fraction of paths that never hit zero during retirement. Real markets have fat tails, autocorrelation and sequence risk that a normal distribution understates, so treat this as a guide, not a guarantee. Results are seeded so they're stable as you adjust inputs.
Dividend Reinvestment (DRIP) Calculator
A DRIP reinvests every dividend into more shares automatically. Those shares pay dividends too, compounding for decades. Taxable accounts pay tax each year; an IRA / 401(k) compounds untouched.
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The income snowball: dividends paid each year as your reinvested share count grows.
Models a starting price of $100/share scaled to your investment. Each year, dividends are paid on shares held (growing at the dividend-growth rate), taxed if the account is taxable, and the after-tax amount buys more shares at the year-end price. The cash path holds shares constant and accumulates after-tax dividends without reinvesting. Tax drag is the value a taxable account loses versus the same holding in a tax-advantaged account. Excludes share-price volatility, fees and dividend cuts; assumes dividends stay qualified.
House Affordability Calculator
How much house can you actually afford? Lenders cap housing near 28% of gross income and total debt near 36%. Enter income and debts - we solve for the max price.
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How your max home price shrinks as rates rise - the dot marks your current rate.
Front-end ratio caps housing cost (principal, interest, tax, insurance, HOA, PMI) at a share of gross income; back-end ratio caps housing plus all other debt. The binding constraint sets your price. PMI of 0.5%/yr is added automatically when the down payment is under 20%. This estimates borrowing capacity, not a recommendation - many buyers choose to spend well below the max. Excludes maintenance, utilities and closing costs.
Debt Payoff Planner
List your debts and your monthly budget. Get a concrete plan: what to pay, to which debt, starting when. Uses the avalanche method - the mathematically cheapest way out.
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Each month, every debt accrues interest at APR÷12, minimum payments are made on all active debts, and your budget surplus (take-home income minus essentials, minus the flexible spending you keep, minus all minimums) goes to the highest-APR debt - plus the minimums freed up by already-cleared debts. Attacking the highest rate first is always the cheapest path out of debt. If a debt's minimum doesn't cover its monthly interest, it will never amortize - the plan will flag it.
Roth vs Traditional IRA / 401(k)
One question decides this: pay tax now, or pay tax later? This tool puts the same dollars into each and shows what you actually keep.
ROTH · tax now, never again
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◈Grows tax-free for decades - no tax on dividends or gains, ever
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✓Withdraw 100% tax-free in retirement (59½+)
TRADITIONAL · tax later
✓Contribute pre-tax - the contribution is deducted, cutting this year's tax bill
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−Every withdrawal is taxed as ordinary income in retirement
Rule of thumbExpect a higher tax rate in retirement → Roth wins · expect lower → Traditional wins · same rate → mathematically a tie
IRA limit $7,000/yr401(k) limit $23,500/yrWhat can they hold?
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The higher your retirement tax rate, the more Roth's tax-free withdrawals are worth versus Traditional - the dot marks your assumption.
Both paths contribute the same dollar amount each year from your current age to your retirement age. Roth is funded with after-tax dollars and withdrawn tax-free; Traditional is contributed pre-tax (so it costs less take-home today), grows tax-deferred, and is taxed as ordinary income on withdrawal. We show the actual after-tax balance each leaves you at retirement - no hypothetical side account. Ignores income limits, employer match, required minimum distributions, state taxes and future tax-law changes. An employer match (free money) makes capturing the 401(k) match worth it regardless of which type you choose.
Net Worth Tracker
Add what you own, subtract what you owe - custom items welcome. See how you rank against US households and every adult on Earth. Overall, and for your age group.
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Future net worth projection10-year
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US household net worth percentiles and age-group medians from the Federal Reserve 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances (released October 2023; figures via DQYDJ). Net worth = assets minus liabilities. Percentile is interpolated from the published distribution and is an estimate. Median US household net worth in 2022 was about $192,000; the top 10% started near $1.9M and the top 1% near $13.7M. Global figures: UBS Global Wealth Report 2023 (per adult, year-end 2022): global median wealth ~$8,654, top 10% from ~$137,000, top 1% from ~$1.08M. US net worth is per household and global per adult, so the two aren't strictly comparable.
Tax-Loss Harvesting Estimator
Selling a loser banks a capital loss and saves tax now. But it lowers your cost basis, so much of the saving is deferred, not erased. This estimates the honest, net value.
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Where your loss goes - and what you actually keep
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Net benefit vs how long you defer
The longer until you sell, the more the deferred tax shrinks in present value - the dot marks your horizon.
30-day wash-sale rule
Rebuy a similar asset, not a substantially identical one, within 30 days - or the loss is disallowed.
Deferral, not free money
Your basis drops by the harvested loss, so a bigger gain is taxed when you eventually sell.
Where the real value is
Time value of investing the up-front saving, plus offsetting high-rate income now vs low-rate gains later.
Estimate only
Ignores AMT, net investment income tax and the long/short-term split within gains; assumes the replacement recovers. Not tax advice.
Lump Sum vs Dollar-Cost Averaging
Got a windfall? Markets rise more often than they fall, so investing it all at once usually wins. Here’s the backtest across every starting point since 1928.
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Lump sum ended ahead DCA ended ahead - each bar is how much lump sum beat (or trailed) DCA for that start year.
Backtest uses annual S&P 500 total returns (Damodaran/NYU), 1928–2025. "Lump sum" invests the whole amount at the start of year one; "DCA" invests an equal slice at the start of each year over the spread, with uninvested cash assumed to earn nothing. Both are valued at the end of the spread. Because stocks rise in about two-thirds of years, lump sum usually wins - dollar-cost averaging mainly helps when you'd have bought right before a crash, and its real value is behavioral (it's easier to stomach). The classic Vanguard study finds lump sum wins ~68% of rolling 12-month periods; spreading over more years widens the lump-sum edge.
Income Calendar
Turn your portfolio into a paycheck schedule. Enter your dividend stocks, ETFs and Treasuries with amounts held. See monthly income, blended yield, and 20 years of compounding.
Your holdings
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Monthly income calendar
Income growth projection
Factor Regression
A few academic “factors” explain most of what any fund does. Regress any US ticker on them: market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum. See what you really own - and whether any alpha is left.
Factor loadings
Portfolio X-Ray
The X-Ray now lives inside the Portfolio Backtester. One tool backtests your mix and looks inside it. Sector exposure, overlap, blended fee, stress test, correlations.
Every tile is one of the largest US companies - sized by market cap, colored by today’s move. Green up, red down. Click any tile for its full chart.
US large caps · today
Tile size = market cap · color = % change vs previous close · auto-refreshes every 5 minutes while you're on this page · universe = the ~160 largest US stocks, grouped by sector. Live market data.
Yield Curve History
The US Treasury yield curve, animated from 1976 to today. Every inversion is visible - short above long has preceded every modern recession. Press play, or scrub through history.
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2s10s spread through history
Below zero (shaded red) = inverted. The marker tracks the date shown at left.
Monthly constant-maturity US Treasury yields from FRED (TB3MS, GS1, GS2, GS5, GS10, GS30), 1976–present. The 30-year series has a gap from 2002–2006 when the bond was discontinued. An inverted curve (2s10s or 10y–3m below zero) has preceded every US recession since the 1970s, typically by 6–18 months, though timing varies. Yields are nominal.
Foreign Exchange
Live currency conversion, historical charts for major pairs, and cross rates.
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EUR · Euro
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JPY · Japanese yen
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GBP · British pound
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CAD · Canadian dollar
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SEK · Swedish krona
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CHF · Swiss franc
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A weaker dollar tends to lift gold, EM equities, commodities, and US large-cap earnings from foreign sales. A stronger dollar does the opposite.
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Top 10 weekly appreciating vs USDWeekly
Sorted by 1-week % change. Columns show the same currency's move against USD over longer windows.
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Top 10 weekly depreciating vs USDWeekly
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Stock Screener
Filter the largest US stocks by valuation, profitability, growth, dividend, leverage, and risk.
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Top Stocks
Compare the top 25 US stocks (by total return since inception, across major sectors) on risk and return metrics.
Risk-return frontier
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Regression anchored at Rf=4.3% (3-mo T-bill).
Investment universe
ETF Analyzer
Type any ETF ticker for a one-screen breakdown. Holdings and weights, performance vs a benchmark you pick, fees vs peers, leverage and risk. Everything computed live.
Enter an ETF ticker above, or tap one of the popular picks, to analyze it.
Computed live from market price history, fund profiles and holdings data. Returns, volatility, max drawdown, Sharpe and growth of $10,000 are computed from monthly history; some fields (expense ratio, holdings, issuer) only show when the feed provides them, with a curated fallback for popular funds. Fees-vs-peers compares the expense ratio to a representative category average. The risk read is an indicative, rules-based summary - not advice. Verify before investing.
Technical Monitor
A live technical scan of the 100 largest US stocks and ETFs. Each is scored on 12 classic signals from a year of daily prices. Strong consensus floats tickers into the buy and sell lists.
Strong buy signals
Strong sell signals
Full monitorclick a row for the breakdown
Universe: the 100 largest US-listed stocks and ETFs by market cap / fund assets (list pinned July 2026, refreshed periodically). Prices are live - one year of daily bars per ticker. Signals: price vs SMA 10/20/50/100/200, the 50/200-day cross, RSI(14), stochastic %K(14,3), CCI(20), Williams %R(14), MACD(12,26,9) vs its signal line, and 10-day rate of change. Oscillators need threshold AND direction to fire - oversold and turning up is a buy, overbought and turning down is a sell; overbought alone in a steady uptrend stays neutral. The composite rating averages buy(+1)/neutral(0)/sell(-1) across all 12: Strong buy at +0.5 and above, Strong sell at -0.5 and below (standard screener bands). Technical signals describe recent price action only - they say nothing about valuation or fundamentals and are not investment advice.
Stock Analyzer
Type any US stock ticker for a full research report. DCF, comps, ratios, management, risks, and a conviction price target. Stocks only - ETFs belong in the Portfolio Backtester.
Business summary
DCF valuation+ expand
Conviction target
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Snowflake profile
Dividend safety
Recent earnings & call
Financial statements
Ratio analysis
Insider trades
Tailwinds & headwindsFrom the fundamentals
Analyst consensus
Earnings history
Sources: SEC filings and live market data.
Top Bonds
The top 25 bond and income products, compared on yield, risk and tax efficiency. Ranked by total return since inception within each category. Treasuries, munis, corporates, REITs and dividend payers.
Risk-return frontier
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Regression anchored at Rf=4.3% (3-mo T-bill).
Investment universeLive
Yields refreshed live. Risk metrics from Morningstar/PortfoliosLab.
Top REITs
Compare the top 25 REITs and REIT ETFs (by total return since inception) on risk and return.
Risk-return frontier
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Regression anchored at Rf=4.3% (3-mo T-bill).
Investment universe
Top ETFs
Compare the top ETFs across 10 categories - ranked by long-run CAGR (net of fees), with filters for size, age, and expense ratio.
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Risk-return frontier
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Regression anchored at Rf=4.3% (3-mo T-bill).
Investment universe
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Academic Study Analyzer
Landmark finance studies explained in plain English. What each found, how strong the evidence is, and the catch. Search the library and open any study for the full breakdown.
Study library-
Plain-English summaries are editorial interpretations written for learning - not a substitute for the original papers. Follow each link to read the source. Citation counts are approximate (Google Scholar) and influence levels are editorial.
Alpha Room
My personal, timestamped calls on generating alpha. Each idea carries a trade, a time horizon, and a return tracked live from the day of the call.
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Every tool on this site is free, forever. They let you do your own research and reach your own conclusions, and that will never change. The Alpha Room is different. It’s my personal, specific calls on what I’d actually do to generate alpha and make more money. It’s free for now, but it will move behind a yearly membership soon. Every call below is timestamped, carries a trade and a time horizon, and is tracked in an honest rolling scorecard, so you can see exactly how each idea has done since I called it.
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Current CallsWhat I’d own
The names I’d actually buy right now - core conviction holds plus a few tactical momentum rides. Each return is tracked live from the day I called it.
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Current TipsCash & defense
What to do with the money you’re not putting to work, and how to protect the downside if you’d rather play defense.
Rolling history of callsPermanent ledger · newest first
Every call ever made, open or closed, with how it’s done since the timestamp. This is an append-only record - calls are never edited or removed, and the misses stay too.
Not investment advice. The Alpha Room is one person’s opinion, shared for education and discussion. Returns are tracked from public market data (price return since the call date, before dividends), not actual fills, and past calls do not predict future results. Do your own research; positions and prices change. Nothing here is advice personalized to you.
Great Investors
The 28 most influential investors in history. What each believed - and what they’d likely do today. Each card links to the closest backtestable portfolio.
The legends
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Click any card for the full profile: philosophy, what they’d likely be doing right now, and the closest matching portfolio. For what today’s big managers are actually filing, see Manager Moves.
Manager Moves
What the most-watched active managers are doing. Their latest 13F and 13D/G filings, straight from EDGAR. Plus a curated read on each manager’s posture.
Latest SEC filingsLive · EDGAR
What these filings mean
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Current posture, manager by managerCurated
The publicly-known posture and most recent notable moves of today’s biggest active investors - compiled from their filings, shareholder letters and interviews, reviewed periodically.
Filings load live from SEC EDGAR (each manager’s public submissions feed) and link to the original documents; 13F positions are disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end, so even "live" filings describe last quarter’s book. Bought / Sold compares the two most recent quarterly snapshots (equity positions only), so it shows net quarter-over-quarter changes - a position bought and sold within the same quarter never appears. Posture cards are editorial summaries of public statements, not filings data. Not investment advice.
Asset Correlations Updated yearly
How assets move together - in normal times and in crashes. Averages for ~2010–2025, crash windows, and a longest-term matrix. Or build your own with any tickers and any window.
Build your own correlation matrixLive
Add 2-8 tickers (any stock, ETF or crypto - plus US housing from the Case-Shiller index), pick the return interval and lookback, and the matrix computes from live price history.
Pearson correlation of overlapping periodic returns (dividend-adjusted closes; "US housing" uses the monthly Case-Shiller national index from FRED, so adding it forces monthly returns). Short windows and few observations make correlations noisy - the observation count is shown so you can judge. Daily data reaches back ~10 years; weekly and monthly go back decades.
Normal periods
Crash periods
−1.0 (inverse)+1.0 (correlated)
Longest-term correlation matrix
Each cell uses the maximum overlapping data window for that pair. Years shown below each value.
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Data availability by asset
Database sources+ expand
The AI Race
Country and company scorecards on the metrics that define the AI race: model quality, model velocity, training compute, investment, chips, patents, talent, and data-center power.
Country scorecard - share of globalStanford HAI · WIPO · Synergy
Each country's share of the global total on six measurable AI-race metrics. Darker bar = bigger share.
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Talent
Patents
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Data-center power capacitySynergy '24
Top countries by total data-center capacity (GW). Compute = power; these are the physical plants where AI gets built.
Data-center electricity useIEA '24
Annual TWh consumed by data centers. 2026 projections shown as lighter bars.
Private AI investment (cumulative 2013–2024)Stanford HAI '25
Notable AI models released (2025)Stanford HAI '26
Top AI labs by training computeEpoch AI '26
Flagship-model training compute, log scale. Bigger = more compute thrown at the largest public model.
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Best AI models by benchmark intelligenceArtificial Analysis '26
Frontier models ranked by composite benchmark score. Bar color = country of origin lab.
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Notable AI models released per year, globalEpoch AI '25
Top-tier AI talent concentrationMacroPolo '23
AI patent share (WIPO 2024)WIPO '24
Data sources+ expand
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Cumulative private AI investment (2013–2024)
Stanford HAI - AI Index Report 2025
Models
Notable Models database (model counts + training compute)
Epoch AI
Model quality
Frontier-model intelligence index (composite reasoning / coding / math evals, max reasoning settings; August 2026)
Artificial Analysis
DC power
National electricity consumption by data centers (2024 estimate)
IEA - Electricity 2024 (Data Centres chapter)
DC capacity
Hyperscale data-center capacity (quarterly)
Synergy Research Group
Patents
Global AI patent filings by country (2024)
WIPO
Talent
Top-tier researcher distribution (Global AI Talent Tracker, 2023)
MacroPolo
Training FLOPs
Frontier-model training compute (Epoch credible estimates)
Epoch AI
Caveats: compute and chip figures are estimates - labs and chipmakers rarely disclose exact numbers. All values are static snapshots, not live. Last refreshed July 2026 (Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026, Epoch AI mid-2026, IEA); the site's quarterly data routine re-checks it, with the next full refresh due with the AI Index Report 2027 (~April 2027).
Killer Portfolios
Famous, backtested portfolio strategies anyone can copy with a few ETFs. Data is approximate and historical. Past performance is not a guarantee.
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Card stats are full-history reference values (US data, 1972–2025, annual rebalancing) sourced from Portfolio Charts / Portfolio Visualizer, refreshed annually; click any card to recompute live from its ETFs over their actual overlap. Sharpe ratios assume Rf ≈ 3-month T-bill (~4% long-run avg); ±0.05 vs source is normal due to differing Rf and rebalance assumptions. Excludes taxes and transaction costs.
Articles
Original research and analysis by Luis Nunez. Also available on Substack for email delivery.
Gold as a Crisis Asset
War, inflation, Fed cycles - since 1971.
Article12 min
Full interactive articleWartime data, inflation onset, Fed cycles, CAGR, charts
Asset Class Returns by Decade Updated yearly
Annualized total returns (geometric mean) for every major asset class, 1930s through 2020s. Includes dividends and reinvestment where applicable.
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Total returns heatmap
Decade
Stocks
Cash
Gov Bonds
Corp Bonds
Housing
REITs
Gold
Inflation
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Asset
Series
Provider
Stocks
S&P 500 total return (incl. dividends)
NYU Stern / Damodaran
Cash
3-Month US Treasury Bills
NYU Stern / FRED
Gov Bonds
10-Year US Treasury total return
NYU Stern / Damodaran
Corp Bonds
Moody's BAA Corporate Bond total return
Damodaran / Barclays
Housing
Case-Shiller US Home Price Index (price only)
Robert Shiller / FRED
REITs
FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs total return (since 1972)
NAREIT
Gold
Year-end spot price per troy oz
Kitco / World Gold Council
Inflation
CPI-U annual average
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Annualized geometric means for the full decade (Jan 1 of start year to Dec 31 of end year). 2020s covers 2020–2024. Real estate reflects home-price appreciation only - total return including rental income would be higher. "N/A" indicates data not available for that period.
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Return Drivers
The S&P 500 moved this year - but why? Gains can only come from earnings, the P/E multiple, buybacks, and currency. This page splits the move into those pieces.
The rally is mostly multiple expansion + Mag-7 earnings, with a drag from a stronger dollar. The five slices below add up to the index’s YTD price return - tap any one to see how it’s calculated.
The six forces in play
Mag-7 contribution to SPX returnYTD
Computed at load time from live S&P 500, Mag-7 and dollar-index closes plus dated published anchors: trailing P/E 29.60 (Jan 1, 2026), 27.81 (Jul 1, 2025 - the start anchor for the T12 view) and 32.60 (Jul 10, 2026) from published S&P index data; Mag-7 EPS share, foreign-revenue share and forward P/E context from FactSet Earnings Insight (Jul 2, 2026); buyback pace from S&P Dow Jones Indices; start-of-2026 index weights as of Dec 31, 2025; top-10 concentration from State Street SPY daily holdings (Jul 10, 2026). Anchors update as each new quarterly report is published.
Capital Flows
Where the money is moving - US-listed ETF flows by asset class, region and sector, plus income, thematic and alt channels. Data as of -.
Total ETF net flows YTD
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US-listed, all asset classes
Latest month
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net flows, most recent month
Where it’s going
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largest inflow
Where it’s leaving
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largest outflow
Fastest mover
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biggest momentum shift
Asset class flows · month & YTD-
US sector flows · month & YTD-
Equity flows by geography-
Income, thematic & alt flowsMixed sources
Sector rotation - total return by windowLive
All 11 GICS sectors across time windows, color-coded so leadership and laggards jump out: green = outperforming, red = underperforming.
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Figures
Report
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Asset class, sector, regional, thematic & income flows
Daily creation / redemption tallies plus press reporting
Independent daily flow tracker
Sector rotation table
Live daily dividend-adjusted closes (total return), SPDR sector ETFs vs SPY
Live market data
Flow figures are compiled from dated monthly fund-flow reports - State Street Investment Management's "US-Listed ETF Flash Flows" (Bloomberg data), the World Gold Council and an independent daily crypto-ETF flow tracker - as of the date shown on each card. The sector-rotation table is live from the SPDR sector ETFs (XLK, XLF, XLE, XLV, XLY, XLP, XLI, XLB, XLU, XLRE, XLC) versus SPY for the S&P 500: every column is a total return (computed from ten years of daily dividend-adjusted closes) - trailing windows from 1 day to 6 months, year-to-date, and cumulative 1, 3, 5 and 10 years. "--" means the fund is younger than the window (XLRE launched in 2015, XLC in 2018). Sectors beating SPY are gaining leadership. The table re-pulls itself every few minutes; market data may be briefly delayed.
Strategy Scorecard
Side-by-side performance of the most-discussed long-term portfolio strategies. Same period, same fee assumption, same rebalance cadence - so the numbers are actually comparable.
10Y winner
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highest CAGR
Best Sharpe
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risk-adjusted leader
Smallest drawdown
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most defensive
YTD leader
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current momentum
Strategy scoreboardYTD & 1Y as of Aug 7, 2026
Strategy
YTD
1Y
3Y CAGR
5Y CAGR
10Y CAGR
15Y CAGR
20Y CAGR
Vol
Max DD
Sharpe
YTD and 1Y are TOTAL returns (dividends included) computed from each strategy’s ETF proxies via dividend-adjusted prices, refreshed monthly; multi-asset strategies use their standard sleeve weights, risk parity uses RPAR, trend following uses KMLM. Longer-horizon CAGRs, volatility, drawdown and Sharpe are from long-window backtests of the same baskets. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Calendar-year heatmap2016–2026 · annual
Calendar-year TOTAL returns (dividends included) computed from each strategy’s ETF proxies using dividend-adjusted closes, rebalanced annually - audited July 2026. Proxies: SPY, QQQ, AGG, IJS, TLT, SHY, IEF, GLD, DBC, BIL and DBMF (managed futures; launched May 2019, earlier years shown as "--"). ETF proxies track each strategy’s intent closely but are approximations. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
// About this site
Arsenal.finance is an open collection of financial tools, live market data, and original research. Everything is meticulously built from scratch.
// Why
To give retail investors institutional-grade tools without the institutional price tag, and help them make substantially smarter financial decisions in the process.
// About me, Luis Nunez
Finance and data enthusiast based in Miami, originally from Venezuela. Contrarian by nature. I build financial tools, research macro trends, and obsess over portfolio construction, market cycles, and economic history. I love placing bets and taking risks. Perhaps a bit too much.
// Investment philosophy
Most people should own the market and skip the stock picking, market timing, and price predictions. The data backs this up. Unless you work inside a company, you have no real insight into what's happening there. The only traders I've seen make money consistently are insiders. Everyone else might have a good couple of years before ending up roughly where they started. Beating the market over a long horizon is rare enough to qualify as a statistical anomaly.
Rare is not impossible however. And picking stocks, trading events, calling tops and bottoms is genuinely fun, part of why we're here in the first place. So I advocate for a hybrid approach: split your portfolio disproportionately in two. A core portfolio that holds the majority of your money and lets you sleep at night, and a betting portfolio that lets you age without the regret of missing the trade you were sure about.
Having witnessed firsthand the decline of Venezuela, once a rich and prosperous country, it shouldn't be a surprise that I'm more a fan of Smith, Friedman and Hayek than Keynes. Free markets allocate capital better than central planners ever could. Monetary policy matters more than fiscal stimulus. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Government intervention usually creates more distortions than it solves.
I also believe index funds are one of the greatest creators of prosperity in the world. They democratized wealth building. Before Vanguard launched the first index fund in 1976, investing was a game rigged for Wall Street insiders with high fees and information advantages. Today, anyone with $100 can own a slice of the 500 largest companies on earth for virtually nothing. That's prosperity at scale.
// Support
I do this because I enjoy it, at no cost to you, but I do incur moderate software and data costs. If you find my work useful, tips of any amount are appreciated.
55% Nasdaq, 25% Tesla, 10% gold, 10% bitcoin. That mix is 80% of my portfolio; the other 20% is my own tactical calls. No regrets. Started in May 2020 (actually started earlier but let's call that period my learning curve and hit delete). You can do the math and see how I've done in the portfolio backtester.