Compound trajectory lab
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · compound-growth-calculator
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Empirical Finance calculators
Interactive calculators and scenario planners built for this niche: every tool ships with domain-native labels, career-specific defaults, and worked examples — not generic financial boilerplate. scientistfinancialadvisor.com readers get calculators with assumptions, language, and examples native to their career — purpose-built for this desk, not relabeled consumer-finance tools.
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What you can run here
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Allocation drift check
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · portfolio-allocation-analyzer
Retirement runway model
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · retirement-projection-simulator
Recovery requirements
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · drawdown-recovery-calculator
Risk budgeting sketch
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · risk-reward-calculator
Options payoff explorer
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · options-profit-loss-calculator
Purchasing power & price paths
Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · inflation-impact-calculator
Grant income volatility band chart
Planning-specific module (grant-income-volatility-band-chart); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.
Conference travel budgeter
Planning-specific module (conference-travel-budgeter); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.
Academic-to-industry comp step planner
Planning-specific module (academic-to-industry-comp-step-planner); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.
Interactive
Compound trajectory lab
scientistfinancialadvisor.com readers get calculators with assumptions, language, and examples native to their career — purpose-built for this desk, not relabeled consumer-finance tools.
Future value
$1,185,264
Projected ending balance under the current compounding path.
Your contributions
$460,000
Starting capital plus every monthly contribution.
Investment growth
$725,264
The share created by compounding instead of deposits.
Output path
The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.
Year 0 to Year 20
Year 0Year 10Year 20
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Allocation drift check
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Enter current and target weights. The model normalizes them to 100% and flags any sleeve that sits outside your drift band.
equities
fixed Income
alternatives
cash
Largest sleeve
55%
Anything too dominant deserves extra governance.
Effective sleeves
2.6
A lower value means the portfolio behaves like fewer real bets.
Concentration score
0.39
Herfindahl-style concentration across the current weights.
equities
Current 55% vs target 60%
Drift: -5%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.
fixed Income
Current 25% vs target 20%
Drift: 5%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.
alternatives
Current 10% vs target 10%
Drift: 0%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.
cash
Current 10% vs target 10%
Drift: 0%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.
Interactive
Retirement runway model
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Nominal balance
$3M
Raw dollars at the retirement start date.
Today's dollars
$2M
Inflation-adjusted view of the same future balance.
4% rule estimate
$130K
A quick annual draw estimate before tax planning.
Output path
The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.
42 to 65
425365
Sustainable real income
$112K
Approximate annual spending in today's dollars if the portfolio must last through retirement.
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Recovery requirements
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Value after drawdown
$800,000
Capital left to compound from the lower base.
Required gain
25%
Gain needed just to get back to breakeven.
Years to recover
2.9 years
At the assumed annual return with no new deposits.
Recovery map
5% drawdown5.3%
10% drawdown11.1%
20% drawdown25%
30% drawdown42.9%
40% drawdown66.7%
50% drawdown100%
Interactive
Risk budgeting sketch
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Risk / reward
2.25x
Reward dollars divided by risk dollars per share.
Position size
312
Maximum shares before you exceed the trade risk budget.
Capital required
$31,200
Approximate gross exposure at the chosen entry.
Trade framing
Per-share risk
$8
Per-share reward
$18
Risk budget
$2,500
This framework assumes a single trade with one stop and one target. If your stop is likely to slip in fast markets, size down before you size up.
Interactive
Options payoff explorer
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Breakeven
$105
Expiration price where the payoff crosses zero.
Max gain
Unlimited
Capped when the structure has a natural ceiling.
Max loss
$500
Always review this before any trade sizing discussion.
Output path
The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.
$60 to $140
$60$100$140
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Purchasing power & price paths
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Purchasing power
$55,368
Illustrative real value of idle nominal dollars after inflation— assumes zero nominal investment return.
Nominal future tag
$180,611
Rough sticker price for the same basket when inflation compounds at the rate you entered.
Nominal cumulative lift
80.6%
Percent increase from today’s dollars to the nominal future tag.
Output path
The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.
Y0 to Y20
Y0Y10Y20
Horizon
20 years
The chart traces purchasing power if nominal dollars earn 0% while prices rise at your inflation assumption—pair with compound-growth and retirement tools when modeling returns.
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