Top Names, 1/29/2026
Updating our top names performance and presenting this week's top ten names.
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 this week:
4-leg combo on Gold Fields (GFI 0.00%↑). Entered at a net debit of $1.15 on 10/28/2025; exited the March 20th, 2026 $35-$30 put spread at a net debit of $0.20 on 1/21/2026 and the April 17th, 2026 $40-$50 call spread at a net credit of $8.00 on 1/28/2026. Profit: 578% (108% of 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 7/24/2025.
Our 21-week streak of beating the market came to an end with this cohort. Over the next 6 months, our top ten names from July 24th returned -4.39%, versus +8.62% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY 0.23%↑).
So far, we have 6-month returns for 135 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 20.15% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 10.22%. 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.
