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 ~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:
Four-leg combo on Robinhood Markets (HOOD 2.10%↑). Entered at a net debit of $1.70 on 9/5/2025; exited the put spread at a net debit of $0.25 on 10/2/2025; exited the call spread at a net credit of $12 on 10/6/2025. Profit: 591%.
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 4/3/2025.
Over the next 6 months, our top ten names from April 4th returned +54.48%, versus +24.63% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY 0.23%↑).
So far, we have 6-month returns for 119 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 18.32% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 9.48%. 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.
