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 names in options trades, such as this one we exited this week:
Call spread on Centrus Energy (LEU 0.01%↑). Entered at a net debit of $3.12, as part of a 4-leg combo, on 8/13/2025; Exited at a net credit of $8 on 10/2/2025. Profit: 156%.
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 3/27/2025.
Over the next 6 months, our top ten names from March 27th returned +81.64%, versus +16.78% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY 0.23%↑).
So far, we have 6-month returns for 118 weekly top names cohorts since we started this Substack at the end of December, 2022.
[Skipping ahead so this post doesn’t exceed email length—you can see the top names returns for every week here]
And as you can see above, our top names have averaged returns of 18.02% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 9.35%. 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.
