Top Names, 3/27/2025

A brief market note, and then on to continuing our core strategy while updating our top names performance.

A Brief Market Note

With “Liberation Day” coming up next week (the day America’s new tariffs take effect), you may want to take advantage of a rally between now and then to add some downside protection.

You can download the Portfolio Armor optimal hedging app by aiming your iPhone camera at the QR code below (or by tapping here, if you're reading this on your phone). Our app can help you find the least expensive hedges given your risk tolerance and time frame.

Our Core Strategy

Our core strategy is to buy equal dollar amounts of the Portfolio Armor web app’s top ten names, put trailing stops of 15%-20% on them, and replace them with names from the current week’s top ten when we get stopped out of a position.

Another Use For Our Top Names

We also use our top ten names as a source of ideas for options trades, such as these on one a couple of our top names from last week:

1. Calls on FUTU Holdings (FUTU 3.08%↑). Bought for $2.15 on 3/17/2025; sold (half) for $6 on 3/18/2025. Profit: 179%.

2. Calls on Robinhood Markets (HOOD 6.70%↑). Bought for $1.32 on 3/13/2025; sold (half) for $4 on 3/17/2025. Profit: 203%.

A Top Names Performance Update

Before we get to this week’s top ten names, let’s look at the final, 6-month performance of our top ten names from September 26th, 2024.

Our top names from September 26th were down 23.4%, on average, over the next six months, versus down 0.65% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust (SPY 0.00%↑).

Note that if you were following our core strategy, you would have gotten out of TMDX 0.00%↑, RUN 0.00%↑, ASPN 0.00%↑, and NOVA 0.00%↑ when they were down about 20%, so your performance over this time period would have been considerably better.

So far, we have 6-month returns for 92 top names cohorts since we started this Substack at the end of December, 2022.

And as you can see above, our top names have averaged returns of 18.42% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 11.86%. You can see an interactive version of the table above here, where you can click on each date and see a chart showing each of the holdings that week.

This Week’s Top Names

Below are Portfolio Armor’s current top ten names as of Thursday’s close.