Tracking Our Top Names Performance
Each week, since we started this Substack at the end of 2022, we’ve posted Portfolio Armor’s current top ten names. Those are the securities our system estimates will generate the highest returns over the next six months.
We currently have six-month returns for our first forty-four weekly top ten names cohorts. Here is how they have all done.
You can see an interactive version of that table, where you can click on each date and see what our top names were, here.
This Understates Your Likely Performance
Our core strategy is to buy equal dollar amounts of the Portfolio Armor web app’s top ten names, put trailing stops of 10%-20% on them, and replace them with names from the current week’s top ten when we get stopped out of a position.
If you followed that strategy since we started this Substack, your returns would have been higher than the ~44% annualized suggested by the table above, for two reasons:
You would have let your winners run. Instead of just holding them for six months, you would have held them until you were stopped out.
You would have cut your losers early. The performance of our top names above includes some that declined by 70% or more over six months. You would have exited these with losses of less than 20% in most cases.
Our Most Recent Top Ten Names
You can find our most recent top names post below.