Thinking on this 4-block quant setup for the long term (30+ years). 1.27x Exposure.

The nominal split is: 30% QQQ / 30% GDE / 20% PPA / 20% AVDV. The cool part here is the real effective exposure is ~127%. It uses GDE (Wisdomtree efficient gold), which basically holds 90% SPY and 90% gold futures using T-Bills (And stock) as collateral. So you get leverage without paying broker margin rates or risking a forced account liquidation (you'd need like an immediate -80% drop on both gold and SPY on the same day to wreck the collateral). I backtested this from 1988 to 2025 using proxi