‘Since January, the entire S&P 500’s gains have come from just two corners of the market, AI and energy, while everything else is actually trading at less than where it started’ - Apollo Global Management
This an independent exemplification of The Pillars of Power in action: Technology (AI) & Energy leading the Market.
Money — the third Pillar — will likely make a showing again soon. Remember, gold alone was up 65% in 2025… with a lot more opportunity down-the-funnel.
An equal-weighted untouched Technology (XLK), Energy (XLE), and Money (GLD) portfolio — the absolute simplest expression of the PoP Portfolio — was up almost 2x the market with better statistics across the board over this same time period.
No re-balancing at extremes. No strategic weighting. No use of signals. No down-the-funnel positive convexity plays. Nothing. No optimization — just 3 ETFs on January 1, 2025 and nothing else, and this is the simplistic output summary:
Don’t overcomplicate this.
Find a framework that actually works.
The Pillars of Power work.
As both a Framework to understand the World.
And a Portfolio structure to harness your Money.
Do not simply accept this blindly. Trust but verify.
Check the actual transparent track record of both over the last ~18 months:
See The Current Beneath the Chaos for the Framework’s scorecard
See Re-Balancing at Extremes for the Portfolio’s scorecard
Most ‘experts’ have missed the entire connected sequence under the surface and the downstream ways to play it.
That incorrectness — often stemming from biases that blind — negatively compounds:
Wrong views of the world — mis-directing your attention & dis-ordering your mind
Wrong views of the market — mis-allocating your money
Transparency and accountability are critical — particularly with areas as foundational as this. Your time, energy, and money are important — do not waste them.
Time to remove the linear ‘experts’ still clinging to frameworks and applications for a world that no longer exists.
And time to replace them with frameworks and applications that actually work.
Stop digging. Stop listening to the manipulated media and the related ‘experts.’ Reconnect within. Think for yourself.
This is just the beginning of a new wave. The beginning of a new era of opportunity for those willing to re-frame disruption as opportunity.
The point of this foundational content is to attempt to boost awareness.
Awareness → Understanding → Empowerment → Better Decisions → Brighter Future
To better understand the Pillars of Power Portfolio as a directly usable application layer start here:
The Pillars of Power Portfolio — inaugural deep-dive piece (4/1/2026)
The Pillars of Power Portfolio - Update — update piece (5/20/2026)
Re-Balancing at Extremes: PoP Portfolio Pivot Points — update piece (6/18/2026)
Overview thread for The Pillars of Power Portfolio — overview X thread
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