Same stock market. Same index.

Same $1,000. Same 33 years.

The S&P 500: $32,227

The ITM Plan: $161k - $421k

Extraordinary? Yes. Check the data.

The ITM Plan

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What if everything you’ve been taught about investing is wrong?

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The ITM Plan

Built on what markets do.

Not on what we think they do.

The Proof: Decades of Evidence

If $1,000 had been invested on 29 January 1993:

S&P 500 Total Return: $32,227
SPY ITM Base Model: $161,735
SPY ITM Turbo Model: $421,330

(Values at 30 June 2026. Both ITM models use SPY as the underlying. S&P 500 dividends reinvested.)

Open-Source Evidence

For years, conventional financial wisdom has insisted that timing the market fails, buy-and-hold is unbeatable, and options are purely speculative gambles. The data shows otherwise.

Check for yourself.

Every trade. Every result. Every signal. Every rule.

Backtested from SPY’s first IN signal to 30 June 2026.
Every rule, trade and calculation is in the Replication Pack.

The ITM Plan

What is the ITM Plan?

The ITM Plan is built on one simple idea:

Markets are driven by people.

From that simple observation comes a rules-based investing plan backed by decades of market history.

How does it work?

The ITM Plan is built on what markets actually do.

Not what we think they should do.

It doesn’t rely on predictions, opinions or conventional wisdom, but what actually happened on the market.

Why do I need it?

Investing has become needlessly complicated.

Experts, opinions, predictions, indicators.

Every day brings more noise making it harder than ever for investors to know what actually works.

Can I check the results?

You can check the complete record yourself.

Every rule, trade and calculation is published.

See the evidence. Replicate the results. Everything needed to verify them
is available in full.

Why The ITM Plan Works

Because markets change. Constantly.

Human behaviour doesn’t.

Everything in the ITM Plan is built on that simple fact.

It is tested against the markets, not opinions.

Evidence

A record anyone can check. Every rule. Every trade. 

Markets record what people do.  Not what they say they do.

Objectivity

Objective rules replace opinions and guesswork.

Opinions change.

Evidence doesn’t.

Simplicity

A plan you can understand and follow.

Less time watching screens.

More time living life.

Confidence

Confidence comes from knowing what to do.

Whatever the market.

Whatever the headlines.

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