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Top Names, 5/15/2025

Revisiting our core strategy while updating our performance.

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May 16, 2025
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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 this one on Oklo (OKLO 0.00%↑) we entered back in December.

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That trade is currently on track for a ~400% gain (unless we exit early for less).

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 November 14th, 2024.

Our top names from November 14th were down 1.3%, on average, over the next six months, versus down 0.97% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust (SPY 0.00%↑).

So far, we have 6-month returns for 99 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 16.82% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 10%. 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.

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