Our Basic Strategy
Our basic strategy 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—there are no options involved in this strategy.
Another Use For Our Top Names
We also use our top names in options trades, such as this one we exited today:
3-leg combo on SkyWater Technology (SKYT 0.00%↑). Entered at a net debit of $2.20 on 10/31/2025; exited the put spread at a net debit of $0.20 on 11/6/2025; exited half the calls at $6.00 on 11/10/2025; exited the second half at $11.50 on 1/15/2026. Profit: 289% on premium outlay (102% on max risk).
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 7/10/2025.
Over the next 6 months, our top ten names from July 10th returned +32.31%, versus +10.88% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY 0.23%↑).
So far, we have 6-month returns for 133 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 20.47% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 10.23%. 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.
