Top Names, 4/18/2024

Continuing our core strategy, while updating our performance.

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 10%-20% on them, and replace them with names from the current week’s top ten when we get stopped out of a position (As you’ll see in tomorrow’s Exits post, I got stopped out of two top names positions this week, one for a 9.2% loss, and another for a 259% gain).

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 October 12th.

Over the next six months, our top ten names were up 29.96% on average, versus up 18.28% for SPY.

That was the 31st top ten names cohort out of 41 since we launched this Substack that beat the market (PA top ten returns are on the left below; SPY returns on the right).

This Week’s Top Names

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