Change the scenario
Explore starting amounts, monthly contributions, and a modeled taxable or IRA setting. Use invented numbers—your actual finances are not needed.
Understand
the mix.
See the tradeoffs.
Hands off ETF analysis. Set your hypothetical inputs and start a run. Steady Otter brings growth, risk, costs, and assumptions into one comparison.
Educational analytics. Rigorous mathematics.
No investment advice. No fiduciary relationship.
You set the scenario.
Steady Otter runs the analysis.
HANDS OFF • AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS
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Searches mixes
Explores alternative ETF allocations.
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Calculates outcomes
Measures growth, downside, and costs.
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Assembles results
Brings the comparison and assumptions together.
Historical results and modeled outcomes, clearly separated.
THE FEATURE TO START WITH
Two portfolios.
Two portfolios.
One clear comparison.
A bigger return number tells only part of the story.
Put your seed mix beside an alternative from the same run. Read aligned rows for growth, drawdown, volatility, holdings, and funded projections. Compare the same periods and cost assumptions.
See the compare screen
YOU SET THE QUESTION
Different budgets.
Different budgets.
Different levels of exploration.
Keep the money in the example separate from the work done by the computer.
Change the search depth
Quick, Balanced, Thorough, and Max budgets control how much search and simulation work is requested.
Change the resources
A separate effort setting controls the compute resources used for that work. More resources do not guarantee a better result.
Advanced algorithm and compute controls require enabled alpha admin access. Available settings depend on access and run configuration.
Explore methods and controls
CURIOUS ABOUT THE NUMBERS?
The math is understandable.
Compounding, drawdown, and simulations—explained with examples at a 10th-grade math level.